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First time I’ve heard of this. A porch pirate is brazen enough to run up to the front door while the homeowner is standing in his doorway and grab the package and run. By the time the homeowner reacts and gives chase, the thief has made good his escape.
I found this really shocking. He almost stole it right out of the homeowner's hands!
First time I’ve heard of this. A porch pirate is brazen enough to run up to the front door while the homeowner is standing in his doorway and grab the package and run. By the time the homeowner reacts and gives chase, the thief has made good his escape.
I found this really shocking. He almost stole it right out of the homeowner's hands!
I find it almost shocking too since they took the package containing 6 Iphones. Have to wonder how they knew there was a high dollar amount package being delivered. Could the thieves just gotten lucky?
I wonder if they had inside info such as a kid telling a friend, or even Henry being the one that may have told someone they were waiting on new Iphones for the family...
A brazen porch pirate was caught on surveillance video snatching a package worth thousands of dollars right out of the hands of a homeowner in a matter of seconds.
The bold theft happened around 3 p.m. Tuesday in Montgomery County, Pa., when the victim, identified only as Henry, was retrieving the package containing six iPhones for his family, according to ABC 6.
The thief can be seen running up to Henry’s door, bolting past an Amazon driver dropping off another delivery, as the homeowner bends over to pick up the high-value package.
In a flash, the porch pirate — wearing a black Guess shirt and a black Philadelphia Phillies baseball hat — yanks the package away from Henry and runs off toward a light tan sedan with tinted windows that was waiting for him at the edge of the property, the video shows.
He believes the thief targeted the package containing thousands of dollars worth of phones. Henry said he saw the same sedan drive past his house moments before the shocking theft.
Nothin happens to porch pirates. They can steal all day long, have their phots taken by ring cameras, be reported while they are doing it, and the police do nothing, It's a logical step to take to grab the package out of the homeowner's hands when they get there too late to sneak the package away.
Nothing has ever happened to them for their thefts. Probably nothing will happen to them for that grab and go. Afterall the court system does nothing to pick pockets and muggers. Porch piracy is a very safe crime from the criminals' point of view.
A box of expensive iPhones would have required a signature, wouldn't it? So the recipient signed for that package and then the delivery person went back to the truck to get another package for them...
Something doesn't seem right with this whole thing. Also, wouldn't the phones be traceable if someone tried to use them?
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