‘Tis the season for porch pirates to be sneaking onto people’s properties and swiping the highly anticipated Christmas gift harbored inside plain brown cardboard boxes. There are some things people can do to try and protect their packages from being stolen, but as Hilary Smith found out, criminals can be just plain mean.
A real-life Grinch sauntered onto Hilary’s front porch and snatched a present for her boss then took off with it. Hilary had the gift delivered to her St. Paul, Minn., home, but she never found it.
What she did find when she arrived home, however, was a snarky note from the thief.
“I looked down, and there was a piece of notebook paper folded neatly on the top step, where the package probably should have been.”
“So just a quick little thank you for leaving me the (opportunity) of stealing your package. Very nice of you. Thank you. (signed) The new owner of your package.”
In the hopes of preventing another package theft, Hilary has left a decoy package on her front porch as bait. The best part is what’s inside that package.
It’s brimming with “a little gift from my dog,” she said.
“It’s brazen and arrogant. Just making sure we raise awareness that this is really happening, and I don’t want people to have their holiday season wrecked to have something big stolen from them.”
“It’s something we’ve never seen before, and I don’t know what to chalk it up to. It’s so unheard of. So we want people to report crimes as they occur so we can keep track of them and hopefully solve them.”
