OddityCentral: Residents of the Daybreak community, in South Jordan, Utah, have come up with a brilliant strategy to ward off thieves this Christmas. They’ve taken to placing fake Amazon packages filled with junk on their front porches, in order to keep the real stuff safe.
According to realtor Kroger Menzer, Daybreak is a tight-knit community of about 4,000 homes and 15,000 people who all know each other very well well. For the past few years, many of them faced the same problem during the holidays – thieves would steal the packages that were delivered to their front door. So when a resident named Jeff posted the fake-package idea on Facebook, it caught on pretty quickly.
Sad, I call the USPS for a pickup and find my shit still there 2 days later.
Why doesn’t the help bring in the packages.
My wife insists on 5 people to help run the house.
But if they put Hillary T-shirts in the box, won’t that encourage more theft? I mean all the thieves are probably democrats anyway so they might not see it as useless junk like a sane, decent human being would.
Brilliant! I remember back during the NYC garbage strike, people were gift wrapping their garbage and leaving it in their cars for thieves to steal.
Too nice. I would simply place a bowl or open jar of the most noxious liquid I could find in the box. When the thief runs off with it, the bowl / jar will spill inside the box and start leaking all over him and inside his car.
Some guy in Las Vegas read your mind with leaving his dog’s poop in a package.
http://abc7chicago.com/news/homeowner-tricks-thieves-by-leaving-package-of-dog-poop/1123205/
Just imagine the size of a Dye-Pack that you could put in one of those boxes – You’d be able to see a purple mushroom cloud over the neighborhood he opened it in!!
I can’t think of a better way to dispose of a dead cat.
🙂
Finally! A good use for cats! Touché. ?
Recycling!
Even better!