I like Mark Robers approach.
I’m a firm believer in electrically charged decoys, camouflaged bear traps and hidden trap doors.
I guess the Police are letting this out of the bag to deter the slim bags. I’d just prefer they clam up and bust the scurg and toss them in jail.
About damned time.
The ones with the glitter bombs and the personal alarms are hilarious.
As long as the policy remains “catch and release”, why bother. It’s just a distraction to give the illusion that they are actually doing something.
There aren’t enough packages stolen & recorded on Ring cameras that they don’t catch? They need to use bait packages?
How it should have gone :
A man was tracked and arrested at a park as he opened the package. He was then shot dead. Cheers & accolades from the bystanders.
I think there’s one yuge catch. In local stories all the thieves turned out to represent one demographic segment of the area. Get my drift? *
* Pacific Islander Ladies in their 80s.
Dye Packs would be good too.
The package is placed at a house that's been targeted twice already.
For instance - Get a warrant to have the delivery company notify the cops when a delivery is scheduled.
Wait and watch. Bust 'em if they show up then.
Putting out bait isn't exactly...sporting.
JMO, YMMV
Gift wrapped C4 with a touch sensitive trigger should discourage porch pirates; well, future ones.
What’s wrong with the traditional method of a trapdoor sending them plummeting into a pitch black dungeon with a foot of foul smelling water inhabited by large, starving predatory reptiles?
Just a pit full of sharpened staves also works, but it can attract ants.
Heard a funny idea today. If you have worthless junk in your house (broken plates, armless dolls…you know the stuff I mean) and you want to easily get rid it, put it all into used Amazon boxes, tape them up, and leave them on your front porch!
Just wait until some zero-bail punk seeks vengeance on the homeowner who cooperated with the police. It isn’t that hard to put two and two together.
No, enough is enough.
EVERY package that the police place should contain one pound of standard dynamite.
Once the package is placed, it should be under uninterrupted observation, and recorded.
The daily results of porch piracy MUST be broadcast EVERY evening to the entire nation. No edits, no cut-aways.
Great idea slacker thief busted.