i dunno, 4 free iphones is probably worth dealing with glitter and fart spray for a few minutes?
If you knew they were there. The creator obscures everything except the cameras' lenses.
Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves
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IANAL, but is that seriously a legal risk? The guy would have to explain he stole it.
Here in the USA, everyone is litigation crazy, so an enterprising lawyer would probably happily file a suit against the maker if someone was injured because of it.
The issue though is since the box is so expensive (4 cell phones, custom boards, etc) stealing it was likely a felony.
So you'd have to admit to a felony to sue or press charges against box maker. Second when committing a felony, in many jurisdiction the felon is automatically on the hook for any further 'bad things' that happen during the crime up to and including deaths. So if the felonious package thief got in an accident while opening a stolen package, it could all fall on them as a matter of statute in many places.
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And many of those people were driving pretty nice cars! It wasn't exactly the homeless stealing packages to feed their family.
homeless are generally not thieves as if they could steal they wouldn't be homeless in the first place
What are they gonna do, steal a house?
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And many of those people were driving pretty nice cars! It wasn't exactly the homeless stealing packages to feed their family.
homeless are generally not thieves as if they could steal they wouldn't be homeless in the first place
Stealing (physically at least) is a stupid way to make money. A $200 game console will hardly net a thief $50. There are a lot of issues in my city with the less fortunate stealing items to make some small money - bikes are a common target. It neither really helps the thief, and it's very unfortunate for the person stolen from.
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The article mentions that he built this in the first place because the police told him that there was nothing they could do even with footage
They couldn't do anything with the footage of them taking it from the front porch. But with close up footage of their face and GPS coordinates of some of their houses it seems like a different story.
Not to mention license plates that are caught in the video.
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#56I've had fantasies of much worse punishments for package thieves, like a paint gun sentinel. I'd buy this if he'd manufacture it.
While all we can do to revenge is sometimes a fantasy, I'd say be rational when you turn your fantasies to reality, you might end up paying the hospitalization for the package thieves.
Sounds like you hypothetically need something which is inherently dangerous (scorpions) but not purposefully dangerous to the person who opens it (drone scheduled to attack package owner).
As an aside, I don’t know if it legal to ship scorpions.
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#57Anyone else found it unsatisfactory that there was nothing about forwarding the footage of the thieves to the police?
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#58I'm honestly really shocked by how casually people seem to steal these parcels, like what the hell?
I'm amused by how outraged they are: how could they do this to me? seems to be a common reaction, when of course they did it to themselves.
One secular take on it: humans are wack, yo.
One Judeo-Christian take on it: "The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?" - Jeremiah 17:9
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Nah... that's not the way the law works. I would love to see a thief try and bring that case... EDIT: NAL but... It's my understanding that the likelihood such a case is brought is small 1. Because it pretty much guarantees the alleged perpetrator will have charges brought against them and 2. Contributory negligence would make that case very hard to win. It is my understanding that yes there have been cases where suc…
IANAL but my understanding is that it's generally illegal to have any kind of "booby trap". The concern (and also legal test) is whether or not it would be likely to spring on a first responder. If you have your house fill with knockout gas whenever someone enters and a fireman needs to kick in your front door, you're going to jail. Someone entering illegally such a burglar still can bring a suit around a booby trap…
Seems like a package trap that triggers on opening would pass that test. First responders aren't going to open a package. The only way they'd be likely to interact with it at all would be to kick it aside.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
The article mentions that he built this in the first place because the police told him that there was nothing they could do even with footage
They couldn't do anything with the footage of them taking it from the front porch. But with close up footage of their face and GPS coordinates of some of their houses it seems like a different story.
I’m not trying to be cynical “at you” but my time with police has taught me they are there to document crime always and stop it directly almost never. TV and Movies mislead.