For the package thief who has everything: Doo-doo-in-a-box
A Minneapolis man gave some pesky porch pirates a little payback — poop.
When his surveillance camera caught thieves stealing a package off his front steps, he boxed up his dog’s doo-doo as a little surprise for the next thief who dared steal from him. Soon poop packages were flying off his porch in the arms of unsuspecting thieves, including one that disappeared 90 minutes after he put it outside his front door.
Neighbors who learned via social media about his foul revenge cheered him because thieves also had pilfered their packages at one time or another.
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The Minneapolis man came up with the idea for the surprise packages after neighborhood kids stole a padded envelope that contained a $10 watchband from his front porch. He knew the package had been delivered that day. But when he got home, it wasn’t there. His home surveillance video showed a group of neighborhood elementary school kids wearing school backpacks who had congregated near the street outside his house. Eventually, one ran up and swiped the envelope.
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He took an old iPhone box and wrote iPoo on it, drew a thumbsdown-emoji and scrawled “crime stinks” on an Apple sticker. He placed it in a packing box and placed it on his porch. It was gone in two days and he replaced it with another, and then another and another. As the holidays drew near, the packages were stolen faster.
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Examining the surveillance video of each heist, he discovered he no longer was dealing with kids. “I was dealing with something bigger — real criminals. These were adults jumping out of cars, grabbing and taking off in their cars.”
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The idea of pranking the thieves seemed funny at first to the Minneapolis man. But now he has second thoughts, fearing a thief might retaliate. He hasn’t set out a decoy package for a few days.
He’s read the news stories and the profiles of those caught stealing. “This is not just kids running around being kids,” he said. “Holy cow, this is a serious issue. … Everyone was supportive and excited about what I was doing, thinking I’m trying to right this wrong. It became a rallying cry.”
He was just trying to teach kids a lesson, not be a crusader, he said. “It really kind of took on a life of its own,” he added.
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A buddy and I rented an apartment together. One of those buildings where the apts. are on either side of an indoor hallway. During the run up to Christmas UPS or whoever would deliver packages and leave them in the hall outside the apt doors, if no one was home. Others had packages wrapped in Christmas wrap sitting out there.
So we're smoking hash oil and playing chess one evening and got to joking about people who would steal those packages. We wound up dumping our kitchen garbage in a box, wrapped it up and set it outside the door. In the morning it was gone.
We laughed for days about that.
shit and empty boxes.....
