What about you in other cities? Have you been left out of the program?
I’m going to start stenciling Amazon swooshes on bags of yard waste so I can get more than two pickups a week.
Porch pirates? Is this what we used to call thieves or burglars?
Portland Oregon was doing this and quickly caught a black guy. The local paper ran the story with “porch pirate” in the headline. The local commentors claimed that “porch pirate” was a racist term... we’re not sure why. So today the headline was reduced to “pirate.”
Apparently “porch” was the trigger word. Some figured it was “pirate” that was racist against Somalis.
4 ounces of C-4, a proximity switch/sensor and a one minute timer.
Once the package leaves the immediate area of the proximity sensor the timer starts.
A minute gives the thief time to get into their vehicle, but not enough time to get going very far or fast.
Boom. One less thief, and a very loud warning to those perhaps tempted to do the same.
“Pour encouragere les autres”...
It’s too bad they are doing this!
The best way to get rid of all the junk in your house is to pack it up in an Amazon box, tape it and put the box on your front porch. If this keeps up, I’m going to be forced to going back to making trips to the garbage dump again.
Semper Fi
How long before they say porch pirates is a dog whistle for a racial epithet
The thievery ends quickly.