Posted on 11/15/2023 6:19:15 AM PST by devane617
A FedEx tractor-trailer was blocked by several cars in a Memphis, Tennessee, intersection before dozens of people pillaged the back of the truck for packages, leaving boxes discarded all over the road during the brazen weekend theft.
Video from the scene shows multiple people running through parked cars in the road toward the FedEx truck as the driver attempts to escape the ravagers who are carrying their loot.
Multiple men allegedly used an unknown tool to open the safety latch on the truck’s sealed back doors and took numerous packages, the driver said, according to multiple local reports.
When police officers arrived, multiple vehicles were seen recklessly speeding away Saturday night, the Memphis Police Department said, according to Fox13 Memphis.
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I’ve heard Memphis has turned into a shithole.
This sounds like another “Thanks, Biden!” moment.
When a political party is in control that scoffs at efforts to fight crime and wants to eliminate police (and courts and prisons), you have to expect that criminals will become bolder.
Gee, I wonder who these people are. Amish?
Is it true that there was a time in America that citizens would have gathered these packages up and helped the driver neatly stack them back on the truck?
Mad Max coming soon to a neighborhood near you
Usual suspects?
Swedish tourists?
Vigilantism is needed when government refuses to protect the people from criminals like this. Those are not FedEx packages, those are our packages. The criminals will be let off and not punished.
Very true. No longer
This type of incident was in the news a number of months ago out in Los Angeles, where slow-moving freight trains were being pillaged as they moved out of the yards. Pictures showed boxes and debris piled up along the tracks. The perpetrators were undoubtedly members of the same demographic as the Memphis looters.
WRoL is spreading.
All convicted criminals released into the general population should be required to have on them working cell phones with GPS tracking.
Those damn Amish teens!!
It was only a matter of time before this was going to become a problem.
Twenty years ago while riding on a Greyhound I overheard truck drivers say they didn’t want to drive in the Metro NY area due to truck robbery.
Yep the world and the USA have changed in many ways since
Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492. Covid is helping to
reduce the population be it good or bad. I guess in ways it is
good as I doubt the world can survive with the growth rate we
were having. Anyway enjoy your three score and ten.
This is the payback we get for giving out way too much “free sh*t”. Embrace the suck, America!
Dummy packages with Apple Airtags sent to FedEx employees could be embedded in the mix.
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