โTis the season for porch pirates to be sneaking onto peopleโs 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 Hilaryโs 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.
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What she did find when she arrived home, however, was a snarky note from the thief.
โI looked down, and there was a piece of notebook paper folded neatly on the top step, where the package probably should have been.โ
โSo 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.โ
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In the hopes of preventing another package theft, Hilary has left a decoy package on her front porch as bait. The best part is whatโs inside that package.
Itโs brimming with โa little gift from my dog,โ she said.
โItโs brazen and arrogant. Just making sure we raise awareness that this is really happening, and I donโt want people to have their holiday season wrecked to have something big stolen from them.โ
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โItโs something weโve never seen before, and I donโt know what to chalk it up to. Itโs so unheard of. So we want people to report crimes as they occur so we can keep track of them and hopefully solve them.โ
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