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Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves
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#852If you're concerned about package thieves, just buy an outdoor cabinet and put it next to your door with a note asking that packages be placed in it. I use an Ikea Josef: https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/storage-furniture/outdoo... You don't even need a lock for it. If you can get the deliverymen to consistently place packages in it, the thieves will have no idea if there's actually a package at your door to steal…
Yeah, we had a package stolen off our porch, so we did that. It's a bench with a liftable top. The plan was to put a padlock on it. All of our packages are addressed to: Shaftway Place in Bench - Code 1234 24601 Where I Live St. My City, ST, ZipZipZip We order a lot of stuff, and probably average 3 deliveries per day. In the last 3 months we've had exactly one package placed in the bench. And we never even got around…
How about offering a tip if they place the package in the box? Add instructions: place package in box, take $5 tip from box.
Of course that might make a code lock more important.
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#853Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If you’re a crackhead with a gun or whatnot do you stick up the crazy with a gun on their belt? Or wait 5 minutes for an unarmed victim? Since I'm not a rational long term thinker, I shoot my victim and take the wallet from the body, why give them a chance to shoot back?. This is the end result of the arms race you advocate for.
We’re talking concealed though. So if everyone used your simple thought process, the rational move would be to shoot everyone since you don’t know who has a gun.
If its concealed, then how is it a deterrant for the crackhead to seek another victim? Said crackhead doesn’t know you have a gun, goes to rob you, you pull your gun and whoever is faster lives. Maybe.
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#854Today, instead of building a glitter bomb, I donated $100 to a local animal shelter.
You're not making the world a better place with mindless pranks no matter how sophisticated they are. You'll have to actually do something positive.
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#855Earlier quoted context omitted.
>What happens next? Well let me tell you of another event that occurred to me in 08/17. I was kidnapped at gunpoint from a gas station, forced to drive my attacker with a gun on my for 30 minutes, eventually after getting off the highway I jumped out of my own car in gear, escaped and called the police. First words out of the sergeants mouth responding, “cut the shit what really happened.” Despite my insistence I’m a…
Jesus this reads like it's from some super corrupt 3rd country, not the US.
You have no idea how 3rd world countries work.
In India. Police supplies thieves with information. Guards the scene while the theft is ongoing. Shares the spoils, and then harasses the complainer. And to put it mildly this is like a low key operation I just described. They do a lot lot more.
It's like an extended branch of the mafia. Most sought after jobs in India after civil services.
Recently in Bangalore a police guy was caught on cam stealing a journalists scooter.
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#856Earlier quoted context omitted.
But the person who built the device did so with the intention of recording people in private spaces. The person committing the theft did not explicitly consent to being recorded in a private space. They are still being recorded unknowingly by a device designed to do that. What I'm saying is; the thief broke a law but the person making the recordings could have also broken laws as well. Two wrongs don't make a right,…
Here's how that would go in court... Thief: Your honor, this man illegally recorded me in my home without my consent. Judge: You mean the package you stole recorded you for the purpose of identifying you as the thief? Thief: ... Judge: Get the hell out of my court room. Even in two-party consent states, I can't envision any situation in which a person would actually be punished for recording in this way. Remember tha…
In fairness to the other side, I think the glitter-in-the-eye part is where an issue might arise. I don't agree that the privacy thing would hold up for shit, but courts have ruled against folks setting up booby traps on their property in the past.
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#857Earlier quoted context omitted.
Get out of your bubble? I used to think the USA was a "safe" place. Maybe it is compared to Somalia but it isn't compared to Japan or Singapore. Once I got used to the safety of these places I never feel safe in the USA anymore. I used just take it for granted there were bad parts of town and that even in the good parts of town I should be leery of people, avoid dark alleys etc. Don't walk alone at night, etc. Then I…
> Get out of your bubble? Swipes like that break the HN guidelines. Can you please edit them out of what you post here? Your comment would be better without that sentence, and maybe also the patronizing bit at the end ("these kinds of posts always illicit irrelevant responses"). https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think this is good feedback. I'm surprised that you got 2 negative responses to your suggestion. You never said that you disagree with the comment. You were requesting that 1 or 2 sentences could have been rewarded.
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#858Earlier quoted context omitted.
Defense is not about punishment. Thieves don’t deserve to die, but it’s okay that it’s a risk they run. As an aside, I see this all the time, usually in conversations about self-defense—“a rapist doesn’t deserve to die”; maybe not but they sure deserve to run the risk and they certainly deserve worse than their victims. At least they have a _choice_.
> Thieves don’t deserve to die, but it’s okay that it’s a risk they run. Why is that okay?
Because they have the agency and can trivially choose to forego the risks. Why should thieves be guaranteed safety? What else should we fournish for them? A guaranteed minimum haul? :)
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#859Earlier quoted context omitted.
>What happens next? Well let me tell you of another event that occurred to me in 08/17. I was kidnapped at gunpoint from a gas station, forced to drive my attacker with a gun on my for 30 minutes, eventually after getting off the highway I jumped out of my own car in gear, escaped and called the police. First words out of the sergeants mouth responding, “cut the shit what really happened.” Despite my insistence I’m a…
Jesus this reads like it's from some super corrupt 3rd country, not the US.
A lot of people who have not had occasion to interact with the criminal justice system (myself included until recently) harbor a lot of common sense misconceptions of the police or DAs willingness to tackle simple, well-documented crimes. “Just get the video and throw them in jail, duh” accurately summarized my inaccurate understanding of the system for a long time.
Turns out, police exist in US society for the express purpose of oppressing minorities and protecting property interests of large landholders (they began as slave and rebellion patrols) - historical fact, not my opinion. Their priorities and values now, a couple hundred years later, still markedly reflect this heritage. It confused me until I learned their history.
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#860Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is. “Legal” != “moral”.
The very first sentence of your comment says "the law...". This is a discussion about the law, aka legal issues. Morality is not, and never was, in question. Stop moving the goalposts, it makes you look silly. And just for the hell of it, no , it is not categorically innocent even when talking about morals, either. Morality is, by definition, something that is personal to each person. Therefor there can be no such th…
We’re debating the morality of the law. My comment is criticizing the law. You’re trying to argue that the law is morally correct based on a legal definition of innocence (and probably also defense).
And while each person may have their own opinion about morality, every society in the world has decided that theft is wrong enough to outlaw, so clearly morality isn’t purely subjective (certainly not by definition). Similarly, every society respects an individual’s right to defend themselves (note that “defense” here is defined as some minimal force required to confidently stop an aggressor thereby excluding things like executing an aggressor after he’s been subdued) so clearly this is moral as well.
Please don’t accuse me of moving goal posts. It’s clear that I haven’t. If you can’t participate in good faith this conversation is over.