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I cannot believe I know this...but the location on the map is actually the McCallister's house from Home Alone, in Illinois, Mark lives in California. I looked it up a few months ago...and I recognized the google map as soon as it popped up on the video. https://goo.gl/maps/1sytkJCxFqn
He mentions that he used that address on the package too.
This needs careful consideration if you ever decide to do it. Depending on the local criminal culture they could exact revenge. Then also know where you live and can do a lot worse things than taking a package. Police might later be involved but it might not be worth it. You are dealing with people who have no qualms stealing so it's not too crazy to expect other rash and illegal acts from them. I can also see some i…
> You are dealing with people who have no qualms stealing, it's not too crazy to expect other rash and illegal acts from them. In more then one instance the thief opened the package at their house. So its fair to say he knows where they live too. Also, very clear HD video of their faces and vehicles. And there is no way all the glitter is going to get cleaned up - so more evidence of who they are. And home security c…
I'm honestly really shocked by how casually people seem to steal these parcels, like what the hell?
As a European, I'm surprised that the postal services in the US just leave the packages outside, rather than ringing the doorbell and/or delivering it to a neighbor. Over here in The Netherlands, pickup points are common (my local groceries store is one), you can choose your delivery time (also in the evening) and they will deliver it to a neighbor when I'm not home. Why not avoid this whole problem with any of these…
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If you are stealing the parcels, you gotta have to do it casually, or you'll look suspicious.
Doing it casually or not doesn’t matter when your on camera. The cops won’t do anything with that evidence, so how does it matter?
What are people's thoughts on if this is staged? Considering the views / subscriptions are the main motivation here, it might justify the expenses poured into this project – that is, it would be quite a waste if all that effort went into the build just to have no one actually take it off the porch. If actors were used, it would explain the lack of police involvement (it's easy to say, "police weren't interested" ). A…
It's easy to say, because after a while it kind of just rolls off the tongue. If there's no blood, my experience says police aren't interested. And in some jurisdictions, it better be a lot of blood.
What are people's thoughts on if this is staged? Considering the views / subscriptions are the main motivation here, it might justify the expenses poured into this project – that is, it would be quite a waste if all that effort went into the build just to have no one actually take it off the porch. If actors were used, it would explain the lack of police involvement (it's easy to say, "police weren't interested" ). A…
there are many comments here that read something like, "mark wouldn't do a fake video..." as if they know mark personally. it's like debating if tom cruise really shoots people in mission impossible.
you can debate this if you want, maybe mark's followers really do "know" what, how, and why he posts to youtube. but please never stop 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 and questioning
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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.
I appreciated the last person's reaction: to check out the mechanism.
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>it's easy to say, "police weren't interested" I’ve had my house robbed, and had evidence from the bank when the robbers tried to use the checkbook to send money through Western Union. They had photos, state issued identification, address, etc of the people collecting the payments. The assigned detective would not read an email or respond to voice mails. The detective said he was too busy to read emails. Not sure tha…
You can try to press charges yourself. The police really don't want to help in such cases but I've found that once they know you are serious and have the proper evidence/witnesses they will at least steer you in the right direction.
https://blogs.findlaw.com/blotter/2015/12/pressing-charges-w...
You could sue them in court.
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Generally because people don't want it. Shipping used to be a lot stricter about signatures, etc, but people usually aren't home when the packages get delivered, and package theft isn't a significant enough problem to make the extra security worth the inconvenience.
> package theft isn't a significant enough problem This guy had his package stolen many times in a short space of time. Seems like the problem is pretty bad?
Also it's very unclear exactly how long any of this took there's no timestamps on any of the surveillance video. Could have been months.