A woman who was fed up with doorstep thefts decided to take matters into her own hands and came up with a nasty yet brilliant plan to punish the thieves.
She also managed to capture the epic movement when her tormentor got away with the package.?
But what was the nasty part of the plan?
The woman, Laurie Pringle, had been experiencing multiple doorstep thefts and to to teach the person a lesson, she placed cat poop inside a delivery package and left it outside her front door.?
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Pringle, who lives in Canada, was just fed up with delivery packages getting stolen from outside her house in Hamilton. One day, she decided to fill an empty cardboard box with the remains of her cat litter tray.
In order to catch the culprit,?she put the box outside her door and activated her ring camera to record the theft. The package of waste was stolen from her doorstep just 40 minutes after she placed it there.
The incident was caught on her front door Ring camera and shared online.
"I just happened to be cleaning the cat litter and I thought well this would work and so I just threw it in and off I went. Little did I know that it would take 40 minutes for someone to pick it up," Pringle told CHCH.
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She added that she always leaves behind instructions for delivery people to ring her video doorbell when they deliver a parcel but not all of them follow the order.?
As a result, the packages remain outside for many hours before getting stolen.
"As a result I have a very clear label for all my Amazon packages, indicating that they should ring my video doorbell. A couple of the couriers that Amazon uses almost never read the label, so that results in my packages being stolen fairly often," she said
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