Porch pirate revenge

[Buck Bailey]

I have seen these you-tube porch pirate 'karma' videos, and I am in favor of them. [if real?] But how do they work? What causes the small explosions? It looks like [in most of them] it is loaded with some sort of paint? or colored powder.

Or ...... is it all just fake? Some kind of made-up drama, just made for you-tube?

 

[Beth Gallagher]

Or ...... is it all just fake? Some kind of made-up drama, just made for you-tube?

I'll go with "Staged". But they are entertaining. I saw a real Ring video of a chunky porch pirate slipping down and breaking her ankle while running with a stolen package. I hope the athlete's foot treatment she stole made up for the ER bill.

 

[John Brunner]

As Beth said, most (all?) of them are staged. I have no idea how one would rig something like that, but I doubt that our homeowner's insurance would protect us from a lawsuit. On the other hand, I've seen electric fence zappers hooked up to political signs in people's yards so the thief gets zapped, and I've not heard of lawsuits. (Those things hurt...ask me how I know.)

It might be easy enough to hook up a switch to turn on a siren or a recording to play "You Thieving $&*#%$*&!!!!!" when the box is picked up.

 

[Tony Nathanson]

Sometimes, a lesson is learned: (Luckily, homeowner used self control)

 

[April Vee]

Ya probably staged but really they are deserving if they are trying to steal stuff!