I'll never understand the mindset. There's few things I hate more than thieves. I work my butt off 40= hours a week to earn something, and you think you deserve it just because you picked it up off my porch? Hopefully, these guys actually get punished, instead of the cops brushing it off like it isn't their job.
He mentioned the police said it wasn't enough of a concern for them to follow up on, I would have asked "If I shoot the next one that tries it, is that ok and you won't follow up on that one either?"
Questions about legality here. As harmless as it seems it is still a booby trap and a booby trap is illegal.
Thieves have successfully sued because of that issue.
Great guy with a lot of skill there to engineer such an amazing device the reactions were priceless.
Sucks the cops won't get off their ass and take care of this problem when given everything they need to track down someone (face/license plate) Like it or not, the solution is actually really simple... catch a few of them, chop their hand off in a very public spectacle, sew them up, and send them on their way. Package theft would drop to 0% if they knew what happens when they get caught.
"but whaaaa that's barbaric and so cruel" -- so what, they made the conscious choice to steal and should have to live with the results of that stupidity for the rest of their life.
I think we need a Constitutional Amendment so it can't be found unconstitutional that just says: Anyone willfully committing a crime forfeits any right to their personal safety or any right to sue for damages done to their person or property from the moment they actively commence the pursuit of said crime until they have ceased said crime or departed the crime scene.
This would allow for use of boobytraps, self defense by any means available, and no responsibility if the criminal is injured or killed while committing the crime. I think that would add quite a bit of deterrent against such crimes of opportunity as these.