Porch Pirates

/ masher

On the way back from our morning walk, each day, Saber and I pass some houses in a small close.

One of the houses has a storm porch that covers the front door and the window to one side of it.

Under the window and on the step of the storm porch are a couple of large plant pots – not that I have ever seen anything growing out of them.

But, taped to the inside of the window glass is an A4 sized piece of paper and printed on that paper in a large font – large enough that I can read it easily from the footpath as we walk past – are the words “Delivery Drivers: Please Hide Parcels Behind Plant Pots”.

If I were a passing porch thief, I’d be tempted to take a look behind those pots each day to see if my luck was in.

Now, I don’t know if they have ever had anything stolen from their porch, but maybe a smaller, more discreet piece of paper – that can’t be read from twenty-five feet away – would be a better bet.

Either that, or take a leaf from Mark Rober’s book (I just love the stuff this guy does!)

7 thoughts on “Porch Pirates”

  2. That video is brilliant! He’s a new name to me; I’ve just subscribed to his channel. Jim Browning is already on my list. Anyway. That level of engineering is amazing. He’s obviously got access to a full workshop to turn some of those components. I think I’m more excited about the video than about someone stealing packages, because that just doesn’t happen around here. Oh sure, there are the occasional misdirected deliveries, but when that happens someone puts out a shout on the village FB group and it’s usually sorted within an hour. I’m going to watch more videos now.

    • ex-NASA engineer. Very creative. Makes a lot of money from his videos.
      So, he has all the resources to do stuff like that.
      But I like the fact that he also encourages youngsters to get into STEM stuff.

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