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Yes. Now I have everything delivered to the back door.

Im another one who lives far enough out and off the road so its not a problem. Both oops and fedex deliver here but noone else comes down our long driveway

Sadly, if you did that, and someone died, you’d end up in jail. Shouldn’t be, but is.

GPS tracker in a box ...hide it between layers of cardboard....consider it a new type of hunting.....sounds like fun.

Been lucky. Plus, neighborhood kid that plays with my grandkids, texts me when a package is at my door.

Sure is fun to take them to the Go Kart track!

I’d be tempted to rig up a box with a bottle of skunk essence and a rat trap. Either attach enough monofilament to let them get to their car before it trips or rig it to trip when the box is opened. The bar on the trap would strike the bottle, breaking it, giving them a gift that lasts and lasts.

Some people here box up garbage and leave it on the porch.

That would be tempting. But, if your address was on the box I imagine they would return with something much worse.

Sounds like a great application for the recently discussed "liquid ass." That's WORSE than skunk, if you ask me!

My neighbor's daughter was at home when Fedex dropped a package and rang the door bell, by the time she got to the door, someone was riding away on a scooter with the box in hand.

First time in our neighborhood.
Not a good sign

Neighbor told me the story about 2 brothers back in the 1950's, who trapped a bobcat, put it in a big suitcase, and sit it out on the side of the road. Then, they hid on the side of the road so they could see what happened. They said an old Buick full of Blacks stopped, one jumped out and grabbed the suitcase and got back in, in the rear seat. The car took off down the road, and the brothers got in their car and followed it. About a half mile down the road, they found the car sitting in a field, all 4 doors open, with no one in sight. They stopped and looked in the car, suitcase was open and the bobcat was gone.

Can you imagine what must have went on in that car when they opened that suitcase.

Oh. I thot this was about the Packers and Steelers.

Well, anyway, what kind of packages you been putting out, Hanco?

How do dey get over da fence?

Yep. Dimocraps also have the right to life, liberty and their pursuit of happiness -theiving.

Directly proportional to how many groids are in the area.

I remember when we never locked our doors.

Or... Isobutyric acid in lieu of skunk essence... Don't ask me how I know that...

Related story: One day I was working in my back yard and noticed a black woman from a distance away walking in the street in the direction of my house with a very small boy of, maybe four or five. Every mailbox they stopped at, the boy would open it, pull out the contents, and hand them to the woman, who would look through it, then place the contents into a sack she was carrying.

I kept watching from a hidden position. Eventually she came to my mailbox which was empty, since I had already collected. She still didn't see me. Then when she got to the next one, the little boy did his thing, handed the mail to her, but this time I abruptly stepped out from behind cover and made my presence known. So now, after her little boy handed her the mail, she turned to him and scolded and beat him for being a bad boy messing with people's mailboxes, snatched it out of his hand, but still put it all into her sack. Now she picked up her pace, and stopped letting him open mailboxes.

I called 911 with a description. 911 told me that it wasn't their jurisdiction, and that I should call the US Postal Service to report it, which I did. They seemed interested in all the details, but I wasn't confident they ever did anything, as it seems to me the natural responders should have been the local cops who could have sent a car to look for her and the boy on the street. No one even ever got back to me about it.

I live in a suburb of NOLA. I am a minority. Most of the video clips I have seen of thefts in this area have been white trash.