{"id":9467,"date":"2018-12-10T22:53:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T05:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9467"},"modified":"2018-12-16T23:22:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T06:22:16","slug":"porch-pirates-vs-doorstep-vigilantes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/10\/porch-pirates-vs-doorstep-vigilantes\/","title":{"rendered":"Porch Pirates vs. Doorstep Vigilantes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/porch-pirates-are-trying-to-steal-christmas-but-doorstep-vigilantes-are-on-high-alert\/2018\/12\/06\/cbf694ea-f966-11e8-8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.798f2bcc3c52\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Washington Post<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Porch Pirates are trying to steal Christmas, but doorstep vigilantes are on high alert<\/h1>\n<p>By <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/petula-dvorak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Petula Dvorak<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8hK8iUFbgIs\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"1\">The Porch Pirates are in overdrive.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"2\">Their crimes are unfolding on doorsteps across the nation as Christmas presents, ordered from online retailers, arrive by the hundreds of millions. And plenty of those packages disappear.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"3\">The thieves are totally legit villains now because they have an official villain name. Search \u201cPorch Pirates\u201d on Twitter or other social media, and you\u2019ll see what I mean.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"4\">But some of the <a title=\"www.insurancequotes.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancequotes.com\/home\/porch-pirates-package-thieves-house-fires-holiday-120117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">26 million victims <\/a>who say they\u2019ve had boxes swiped from their porches are heroically fighting back, determined to protect their precious packages.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"5\">They\u2019re using booby traps, secret cameras, geo-trackers and bait boxes. The scenes of Good vs. Evil being posted online make for days of great comic-book reading, complete with shaming doorbell video clips of sneaky pirates, clumsy pirates, grandma pirates in flowery tunics, at least one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article200379154.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pirate in a bra<\/a>, even regretful pirates who\u2019ve returned to the scene of the crime to leave an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ring\/status\/1039604628101505025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">apology note<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"5\">[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/porch-pirates-are-trying-to-steal-christmas-but-doorstep-vigilantes-are-on-high-alert\/2018\/12\/06\/cbf694ea-f966-11e8-8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.798f2bcc3c52\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at WaPo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Washington Post Porch Pirates are trying to steal Christmas, but doorstep vigilantes are on high alert By Petula Dvorak \ufeff The Porch Pirates are in overdrive. Their crimes are unfolding on doorsteps across the nation as Christmas presents, ordered from online retailers, arrive by the hundreds of millions. And plenty of those packages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}