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I'm honestly really shocked by how casually people seem to steal these parcels, like what the hell?
by Rainymood 8y ago
I'm honestly really shocked by how casually people seem to steal these parcels, like what the hell?
- vorpalhex 8y agoAnd many of those people were driving pretty nice cars! It wasn't exactly the homeless stealing packages to feed their family.
- xbmcuser 8y agohomeless are generally not thieves as if they could steal they wouldn't be homeless in the first place
- _verandaguy 8y agoWhat are they gonna do, steal a house?
- Loughla 8y agoYou seem to be getting downvoted because you made a joke, but honestly. The more I look at that sentence: >homeless are generally not thieves as if they could steal they wouldn't be homeless in the first place The less sense it makes. I 100% do not understand what the OP was trying to say with that. It's nonsense if you really evaluate what it's saying.
- thecatspaw 8y agomaybe steal -> get caught -> go to prison -> no longer homeless?
- carlmcqueen 8y agohttps://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/st-louis-larceny-reaches-new-milestone-with-theft-of-entire/article_223154fe-9b92-5e53-9e88-f2755ab75990.html https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/st-loui... Wasn't a homeless person, but in St. Louis Missouri a house isn't out of the question.
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoFWIW arranging to have a trailer/motorhome "stolen" is a not unheard of way of performing a (less than legal) eviction in some places.
- madengr 8y agoIn some states, once you get a renter, it is very hard to evict them. Many abuse this.
- leereeves 8y agoOnce. After you get an eviction on your record few landlords will rent to you again.
- vorpalhex 8y agoStealing (physically at least) is a stupid way to make money. A $200 game console will hardly net a thief $50. There are a lot of issues in my city with the less fortunate stealing items to make some small money - bikes are a common target. It neither really helps the thief, and it's very unfortunate for the person stolen from.
- MagicPropmaker 8y agoIn California, thefts of under $950 are not felony crimes. And there's no more "three strikes". So you can steal packages for a living and, at worst, have to spend a week or two in jail over the course of a year. Not a bad living.
- wiredfool 8y agoAnd occasionally, the packages contain runny used cat litter.
- vorpalhex 8y agoIf I paid you $200, would you spend two weeks in jail? If getting that $200 meant risk to you (someone confronting you, someone else taking your money, risk of an officer giving you a beat down), would you still take it? It doesn't take a lot of risk to offset the "value" of stealing $950 labeled-worth goods (which will net you <$250 in cash).
- AstralStorm 8y agoDon't worry about the petty thief, they are smart enough about minimizing their own risk.
- derefr 8y agoThe parent poster said that you’d spend maybe two weeks in jail over the course of the year. It’s not a balance of $200 vs. 2wks jail, it’s a balance of ($200 per package x many packages per day * 365 days per year) vs. 2wks jail.
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- mic47 8y agoIf you are stealing the parcels, you gotta have to do it casually, or you'll look suspicious.
- dylan604 8y agoDoing it casually or not doesn’t matter when your on camera. The cops won’t do anything with that evidence, so how does it matter?
- rtkwe 8y agoDon't want people seeing you and calling the cops/following you.
- dylan604 8y agoThis fear of the cops is only a thing if you actually believe the cops will respond. Package thieves know the average response time will give them plenty of time to get away. These types of videos just re-enforce that to any would be thief. The amount of news coverage with video evidence showing the thieves NOT getting caught does not give pause to one thinking "maybe I can get away with it too". I know I've made lots of comments about police response in this thread, but I'm not trying to come across as too negative. However, there's a reason this type of crime is prevalent. Police cannot be everywhere all of the time. At this point in time, I personally would be more worried about the homeowner staging a trap with a shotgun rather than a glitter bomb. That would be legal in Texas.
- technofiend 8y agoI'm amused by how outraged they are: how could they do this to me? seems to be a common reaction, when of course they did it to themselves.
- DoofusOfDeath 8y agoOne secular take on it: humans are wack, yo. One Judeo-Christian take on it: "The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?" - Jeremiah 17:9
- larkeith 8y agoI appreciated the last person's reaction: to check out the mechanism.
- isoprophlex 8y agoToo bad the fart spray seemed to have ran out at that point. I was waiting for the guy to be sprayed...
- technofiend 8y agoMaybe version two will have a fart spray auto loader.
- chaoticmass 8y agoI think a way to aerate the fart spray into the glitter as it launches out would be a nice touch, not only would the glitter get on everything, it would smell bad and be hard to get out.
- markgavalda 8y agoYou could also add instant glue ;-)
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- stingraycharles 8y agoAs a European, I'm surprised that the postal services in the US just leave the packages outside, rather than ringing the doorbell and/or delivering it to a neighbor. Over here in The Netherlands, pickup points are common (my local groceries store is one), you can choose your delivery time (also in the evening) and they will deliver it to a neighbor when I'm not home. Why not avoid this whole problem with any of these options?
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- rtkwe 8y agoYou can totally have them delivered to a store for pickup and there's even Amazon Lockers in some places to make it easier. You have to request it though and in most cases you'll have to do that after the package is shipped because Amazon will use whoever is cheapest to ship a particular package.
- dawnerd 8y agoHalf the time they'll just leave a not in the post box saying delivery attempted and to pick it up at the post office. Most new communities are switching to locking post boxes which have parcel lockers so that does help a lot. Problem is theres usually only two parcel lockers and during holidays they just toss the box at your door.
- Brushfire 8y agoThis does happen in many places, but I think you underestimate how much of the US is spread out over large areas. Suburbs are huge places. For example, here in Chicago, the suburbs extend for at least 20 miles in every direction... so to say this is an "Easy" challenge to solve is underestimating a bit for companies like Amazon or organizations like USPS.
- rconti 8y agoNobody's home during the day. What neighbor? How do you know which neighbor will be home, or which neighbor to trust? When 90% of your package recipients are not home, you spend 3x as much time per package delivery. Carriers offload responsibility by allowing the sender or receiver to opt-out of signature/package acceptance, so why would they care? Just one data point, but I've been having packages delivered to my home my entire life and never had a single one go missing. Seems like a really high cost to prevent something unlikely. On the other hand, I had never had a home or vehicle broken into until someone smashed my car window last night at the movie theater. So, there's a first time for everything.
- Dirlewanger 8y agoI'm guessing people with a gambling streak and zero morals would be drawn to it. Think about it: you never know what you may get. Could be a valuable watch, could be some desk pencil holder.
- entity345 8y agoThis is a thief skill. You need to act casually not to look suspicious.
- overcast 8y agoPeople steal PLANTS from neighborhoods around here. Plants, planted into the GROUND. There are worthless people everywhere in this world.
- Axsuul 8y agoMy grandpa has pomegranate trees on his property that have been stolen from a few times. It's heartbreaking cause of the amount of work he puts into caring for them. And these trees are picked CLEAN with nothing left behind which is just cruel.
- magic_beans 8y agoWtf? Are people stealing them to eat? To sell? I mean, I have a small amount of sympathy if someone needs to feed their family and can't afford food, but if someone is just trying to make $10, that's really sad.
- magic_beans 8y agoNow THAT is cold-blooded.