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One way to deal with parcel thieves
« on: December 25, 2014, 05:08:35 PM »
http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2014/12/24/vallejo-package-bandit-duped-with-box-of-dog-poop/

URL is self-explanatory.

Personally, I prefer the Noe Valley woman's approach.
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Re: One way to deal with parcel thieves
« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2014, 09:37:34 PM »
Finally,  a good use for IEDs.
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Re: One way to deal with parcel thieves
« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2014, 09:51:31 PM »
Dye packs.
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Re: One way to deal with parcel thieves
« Reply #3 on: December 25, 2014, 10:10:41 PM »
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Re: One way to deal with parcel thieves
« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2014, 12:46:05 AM »
Or just try a variation on the glued-down coin.


Then again, GPS tracking devices are probably concealable, and easy to come by these days, right?
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Re: One way to deal with parcel thieves
« Reply #5 on: December 26, 2014, 12:14:19 PM »
I remember with the garbage strikes in NYC, folks would wrap their garbage up real pretty and leave it in their cars and trucks.

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Re: One way to deal with parcel thieves
« Reply #6 on: December 26, 2014, 01:19:03 PM »
I wouldn't recommend it, but we had a local businessman with an employee who got sticky fingered with any cash that wasn't locked up.  He could never prove it though.

Said employee is still doing time for trying to pass some slightly flawed counterfeit bills.  As in, just flawed enough that suspicious clerks who see cash all day would spot it easily.

There might have been be some connection between the two crimes, though no one has ever been dumb enough to confirm it.

Personally, I'd be way too tempted to ship myself some fireworks that had a few of the fuses on the big stuff replaced with quickmatch.  Or maybe ExLax recast in a Godiva mold.  Jerky cured in epsom salt.  Condoms treated with Mentholatum.  Flash drive with a nasty worm or trojan. 
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Re: One way to deal with parcel thieves
« Reply #7 on: December 26, 2014, 03:06:29 PM »
^ That brought to mind this:

http://bevhavlik.powweb.com/eBay/TrapVictor3.jpg

Under a crapload of packing peanuts.

But, would probably be illegal and actionable.

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Re: One way to deal with parcel thieves
« Reply #8 on: December 26, 2014, 03:33:29 PM »
Quote from: 230RN on December 26, 2014, 03:06:29 PM
^ That brought to mind this:

http://bevhavlik.powweb.com/eBay/TrapVictor3.jpg

Under a crapload of packing peanuts.

But, would probably be illegal and actionable.

Yeah, and that the very authentic looking UPS label on the package points to the neighborhood crook just makes it even more obvious that there was criminal intent.  Especially since he was so careful to get rid of any fingerprints or DNA anywhere on the box or its contents.  Guy was obviously out for blood.
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Re: One way to deal with parcel thieves
« Reply #9 on: December 27, 2014, 08:45:40 AM »
Reading the article up top, I get the impression the local police don't care. 
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Re: One way to deal with parcel thieves
« Reply #10 on: December 27, 2014, 11:43:05 AM »
Quote from: MechAg94 on December 27, 2014, 08:45:40 AM
Reading the article up top, I get the impression the local police don't care. 

It wasn't their *expletive deleted*it that got stole and they went home safe at the end of their shift. Why the hell should they care?
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Re: One way to deal with parcel thieves
« Reply #11 on: December 27, 2014, 12:42:40 PM »
Quote from: MechAg94 on December 27, 2014, 08:45:40 AM
Reading the article up top, I get the impression the local police don't care. 

Is there any local police anywhere in US that gives a crap about property crime?
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Re: One way to deal with parcel thieves
« Reply #12 on: December 28, 2014, 05:15:49 PM »
Quote from: White Horseradish on December 27, 2014, 12:42:40 PM
Is there any local police anywhere in US that gives a crap about property crime?

Only when you defend your property.
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Re: One way to deal with parcel thieves
« Reply #13 on: December 28, 2014, 05:20:45 PM »
Wizz on the door handle to their cruiser.  They'll care about THAT property crime.
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