Am I the jerk for installing cameras without telling my housemates. I'm a 20 year old female

and I live in a shared house with three other girls. I will call them Sarah, Kate and Zoe.

Kate's is friends with Zoe and the rest of us aren't really friends. Whilst I'm on okay terms

with Sarah and Zoe, I've never really liked Kate. We have a shared fridge where we have a shelf

for each of our stuff. I have noticed that my food and milk constantly goes missing. I see multiple

times a week that a large portion of my food and milk is gone. It's unbelievably frustrating

and also very time consuming and expensive to have to buy slash cook new food. I always believed

it was Kate because number one, she is awake late in the night between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m.

I'm asleep then and I tend to notice my stuff missing in the morning and number two,

I have asked all of them about it. Sarah and Zoe both and I taking my stuff but Kate gets all

defensive and says I shouldn't accuse her when I have no proof. I was complaining about it to my

friend and he says he was in a similar situation and he got a fridge camera. I thought this was a

great idea. I got one placed inside the fridge discreetly and decided to wait a week. Sure enough,

it was Kate's rating my food daily. I confronted her about it because now I had proof I showed her

the footage and told her never to do it again and that she should repay me for what she took.

She went ape. She said how dare I put a camera in the shared kitchen without asking the others first

and how it's so invasive to record others in their own home. I explained the camera only recorded

inside of the fridge not the whole kitchen but she did not care. She has since said she'll never

be able to feel safe from her own home again. Zoe has sided with her and they're both calling me

a jerk saying that I should have asked everyone first even though this would have defeated the

whole purpose. I said none of this would have happened if Kate had been stealing my food and lying

about it. Sarah has taken my side so it's pretty tense in the house at the moment. So,

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