As online shopping has been becoming more popular so has the amount of items being stolen from people’s porches. When common criminal see an unattended package that has been left on someone’s porch, they take it upon themselves to snatch it up. All around the world porch pirates have been able to successfully steal thousand’s of dollars worth of items by stealing their deliveries and their mail. This has also coincided with more homes purchasing home security systems that come complete with camera’s. These camera’s are often being aimed at the doorways in order to catch thieves if they steal a package from the porch or mailbox, if they attempt to get in to the home or if the successfully manage to break into a home. Most of the delivery companies are also working hard to stop these criminals by offering images of your package at every stop, including where they have been placed on your porch. So do not be surprised if you order an item online and your delivery notification comes complete with an image of your porch. This is only of a service to you so you are able to successfully locate your items.
You’re looking at two decoy packages left out for porch pirates.
This Colorado Springs mom says she’s had it with packages being swiped from her home, so she set out boxes filled with used kitty litter. It’s her third round of fakes.
She expects they will be gone in hours. pic.twitter.com/s2pmTYvOMc
— Spencer Wilson (@Spencer_WNews) December 12, 2019
Christine Hyatt of Colorado Springs, Colorado enacted her own revenge on some local thieves that had been stealing her delivered packages on her porch. Hyatt claims to have had at least twenty packages stolen from her front porch shortly after they had been delivered. while most of these packages were from reputable companies such as Amazon, Target, Ebay, other big named stores as well as boxed from medical companies. She has lost out on Christmas gifts, clothing, necessities and even medication for her daughter. These thieves have not only been an inconvenience to Hyatt and her family, they have also endangered her daughter’s health in the process. A few of the packages included her young daughters diabetic medication that had been delivered and that is expensive. Since money does not grow on trees, Hyatt can not afford to repurchase all of these items and this life sustaining medication that her daughter desperately needs.She has been able to alert the medication supplier about the issue and was able to get her daughter more of her necessary medications.
Christine Hyatt has now successfully tricked the local thieves into removing her trash for her, three times so far and she is not finished. She is determined to keep feeding them their own medicine. She began setting out her garbage in Amazon packages, the day after Thanksgiving when her family forgot to take out the trash. So she used that as an opportunity to see how desperate these criminals really where. She has happily filled empty boxes with turkey bones, old food, tissues and any other garbage that she has been able to round up. Christina Hyatt will continue setting her trash out for the Porch Pirates until they stop taking it. Her next boxes will be packed full of cigarette butts, fast food wrappers and kitty litter. She will continue her revenge as long as these criminals continue to take her packages. The only way this story could get even better, is if we were able to see the look on these criminals faces when they open these packages. Wouldn’t that be a site to see.