The Lowest of the Low
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325696)
Rockingham, Australia
December 17, 2015 6:11am CST
One of the items on our Australian TV news this evening was about a woman who was stealing packages from the front porches of houses. It seems she was following a courier van. When the courier van delivered a parcel to a house, she'd pull up a few minutes later and commandeer the parcel. Many of these were Christmas presents.
Unfortunately for her, some of the houses she stole from covered by CCTV so she was apprehended quite easily. But what a lowlife! If you're having parcels delivered be sure to bring them indoors as soon as you can.
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@whiteream (8567)
• United States
18 Dec 15
We had that happen to us last year. It was crazy because it was clothing for my son and I had a hard time getting the stuff replaced before Christmas.
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@JudyEv (325696)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Dec 15
That is such a shame that your son's clothing was stolen. Just the sort of pressure you don't need at the last minute.
@rebelann (111160)
• El Paso, Texas
18 Dec 15
Bummer, but glad she got caught.
I read about a guy who put together a really kool package for these kinds of thieves, he wrapped his dogs excrement then packaged it and sent it to himself, I just wish I knew what the thief did when he opened the stinky thing.
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
18 Dec 15
i've known about it from news reports and videos but in the us, so it's sad to know it's happening down under, too.
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
21 Dec 15
@JudyEv one of the downsides of the internet. 
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@JudyEv (325696)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Dec 15
It doesn't take Australia long to pick up on whatever is happening in the US. We're only ever a little while behind.
@LeaPea2417 (36431)
• Toccoa, Georgia
18 Dec 15
It is just awful some people will stoop that low. I am home most of the time, so I bring the packages in as soon as I can. I am glad she got arrested.
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@LeaPea2417 (36431)
• Toccoa, Georgia
21 Dec 15
@JudyEv I just read a story that happened in the neighboring State. An 18 year old who was working for UPS, was stealing packages off the porch of houses! He got caught and was made to return all the ones he had stolen. But, I think he was also getting prosecuted for theft.
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@JudyEv (325696)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Dec 15
@LeaPea2417 I'm glad they caught him.
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@JudyEv (325696)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Dec 15
I guess that might be the next thing to come in here. We live 7kms from a Post Office and couriers won't deliver to a PO box. But they won't come off the highway to deliver to the door. They leave it with an agent in town but half the time we don't get advised that it's arrived and it is shoved off back again. Not quite as bad as being stolen. 
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@Mike197602 (15487)
• United Kingdom
17 Dec 15
She really is low but don't you just love cctv
loads of these sort of idiots are caught on camera then caught by the police.
loads of these sort of idiots are caught on camera then caught by the police.2 people like this
@Mike197602 (15487)
• United Kingdom
17 Dec 15
@JudyEv most people round my area have at least 2 cameras some have loads all over their house and garden.
also police cctv is up on around the area too.
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@JudyEv (325696)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Dec 15
@Mike197602 Heavens above! Something else I've learnt. Maybe they have them in our cities too. I'll have to take more notice. Next time I go to a front door, I'll peer up the top to see if I can see a camera :)
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@JudyEv (325696)
• Rockingham, Australia
7 Jun 16
@MsTickle No really as I have 'new' ones sitting in a box that are the same? One day these will be too dusty too and will be easy to throw out. It's strange how that happens isn't it? One day you look at them and they are just too awful - and out they go!
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@Shellyann36 (11385)
• United States
22 Dec 15
It is bad here in the states as well. I saw on a news show that in a certain part of California there is a special team of police that are delivering false packages to homes and then staking out the home until the thief comes to pick up the package and then they arrest them. I hope that this technique works and they catch lots of thieves.
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@Shellyann36 (11385)
• United States
29 Dec 15
@JudyEv Tracking devices are a good idea but I am sure the bad guys will figure out a way to switch them off or something else to get around it.
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@JudyEv (325696)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Dec 15
@Shellyann36 It's like a big game between the goodies and the baddies. :)
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
17 Dec 15
This is going on all over the world. It has been on the news here - I hope people are paying attention.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
17 Dec 15
@JudyEv Yes, and it makes me glad our packages usually arrive in the evening when we are home.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
22 Dec 15
We have been warned that a similar thing is happening in the US. People are such scrooges!!
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
17 Dec 15
I am glad she was caught. I hope the courts lock her up for a very long time but I guess there will be crazy dogooders telling the judge that she was deprived of gifts herself when she was a kid or something just as daft.
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
17 Dec 15
@JudyEv Vile woman. I hope they throw an encyclopedia at her not just a book!
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@JudyEv (325696)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Dec 15
@garymarsh6 Maybe they'll be going with the times and using an ebook!
@poehere (15126)
• French Polynesia
17 Dec 15
There are a lot of people who do stupid things like this around the holidays. They might not have the money to buy something and want so badly for nobody to know this. So instead they go and take from others so they can give to another.
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@poehere (15126)
• French Polynesia
17 Dec 15
@JudyEv I guess not and you are so right. I sure hope they got back all that she stole and were able to find who they belonged to and were able to return them to the people they belonged to. It would be sad because these people might go after the company who shipped them and claim they were never shipped. Lucky they found this person so quickly and were able to stop this.
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@JudyEv (325696)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Dec 15
They obviously don't think about the fact that those they're stealing from now have nothing to give.
