Watch booby-trapped Amazon package cover thieves in glitter and fart spray

[fktech]

True, if banks can do it, why can't we?


Thanks, and good luck to you with your package stealing!

Troll!

 

[fktech]

Not likely but its your life, liberty and pursuit of happiness...

 

[fktech]

You don't need a defense lawyer. The outcome will end just as well without one.

Not likely but its your life, liberty and pursuit of happiness...

 

[cliffordcooley]

Not likely

It's glitter and fart spray pranking a thief, the judge will fall out of their seat laughing. You will not need a lawyer.

 

[Emexrulsier]

That's illegal to booby trap items in public.

The item though was left on private property

 

[cliffordcooley]

The item though was left on private property

Mail theft is a federal offense even in a public location.

https://www.wklaw.com/mail-theft-a-federal-offense/

Personally I would be OK with blowing their arms off. I can see where that might get you in trouble. But glitter and fart spray would not result in sever charges if at all.

 

[fktech]

Mail theft is a federal offense even in a public location.

https://www.wklaw.com/mail-theft-a-federal-offense/

Personally I would be OK with blowing their arms off. I can see where that might get you in trouble. But glitter and fart spray would not result in sever charges if at all.

Only mail derived by USPS is protected.

 

[cliffordcooley]

Only mail derived by USPS is protected.

I think you are mistaken. The thief in their mind was stealing mail regardless, the actual item is irrelevant. They are guilty by intent. No less punishable than being accessory to a crime.

 

[lazer]

The guy who built the fart/glitter box with the camera did not do much except spend much time and money. but did he get the thief arrested?

Amazon should make a practice of putting cheap GPS devices in all packages to prevent thieves from taking packages. It seems that it is getting to be more and more a common crime.

 

[Athlonite]

I said they should have used a dye pack like the banks use just so that everyone will know they're a thief when they see them coming down the road

But if it was me doing this I'd have used a Claymore mine no more thief no more problem

 

[ET3D]

Because in the real world, where a great many people work during the daytime, including both the people receiving the package and delivering it, this is the available option. I suppose for the 1% there's the option of having the butler receive the package, or drive to the UPS facility to pick it up.

It's nice how you completely ignored the perfectly valid suggestions and went for the stupid butler angle.

In the real world, people are perfectly capable of finding the time to pick up packages from the post office or from automated machines set up for this.

 

[brucek]

It's nice how you completely ignored the perfectly valid suggestions and went for the stupid butler angle.

In the real world, people are perfectly capable of finding the time to pick up packages from the post office or from automated machines set up for this.

I will trust you that there are late night post offices and automated machines where you live, which I'm guessing is a large city or other special case. I can assure you they do not exist where I live, which is not a large city. The recipient, the delivery person, and the people staffing the shipping facility all work during the day. The recipient is at home only at night, the delivery person is off duty at night, and the shipping facility is closed at night. Which leaves us back to the butler, which I agree is stupid, or to the deliver to the door, which is the actual option implemented. Or did you think the entire system was just stupid?