As shopping for things online becomes more of an everyday activity with each passing day, the concept of the porch pirate is going to be entering the lexicon as well.
For those of you that aren’t aware, and I envy you, a porch pirate is someone that sees a package that has been left on someone’s doorstep and takes it before they notice that it is missing.
I have had this happen a couple of times and it is always annoying to have to call the place that you ordered from to tell them that a package was stolen.
I’m not the type of person that does anything unless it is necessary so having to tell people that a package got stolen is always a pain in the neck for me.
What makes it even worse is that these porch pirates could be taking something that someone really needs.
You see, the brown box is used by countless companies to send things. It’s also how a lot of people get medications and the like.
I have a friend who was waiting on a box of important medications that they got stolen by a porch pirate that thought they were getting something expensive.
It’s really a dangerous lottery that some of these people play. They have no idea what they are getting when they open the package.
Which brings me to the case of Christine Hyatt, a woman who had been the victim of porch pirates one too many times.
So she had what I think is one of the most brilliant ideas I have ever heard of.
She, like a lot of us, get a lot of deliveries through Amazon and other online outlets. So she had a lot of boxes lying around to be taken out in the trash. She also had a lot of trash as well.
So she came up with the idea of taking her garbage and putting it in the Amazon boxes, taping them back up, and leaving them on the porch.
She managed to catch several porch pirates this way. I have to admit, if you get the police called on you for stealing a box full of garbage, you gotta be feeling pretty stupid.
