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Brian Krische and his roommate had a lot of their Netflix discs go missing before they received them, and they grew suspicious. So, like any self-respecting and enterprising geeks, they set up a motion-sensing camera pointed at their mailbox. The results? One chubby, shirtless criminal caught red-handed.
Yes, it turns out their "white-trash tenants in the first floor" had a penchant for checking their neighbors' mail while out on their daily shirtless stroll, snagging any red envelopes that happened to be there. Once Krische got the evidence in hand, he called up Netflix, who then called the cops. The shirtless bandits ended up with a $750 fine and a trip to the First Offender Program. That'll teach 'em to steal their neighbors' BioDome DVD. [Krische Online via GadgetLab]
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That looks like the dude from SuperBad.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha *gasp*
ahahahahahahahahahahaa
Deleted scene from Superbad?
If they are really hard-core, they could setup a motion-sensing cat launcher.
Take that shirtless bastard!
@Samifumi: DAMN lol. Takes forever for comments to show up on this site.
The proof that DVD's do contain high amounts of Trans Fat.
Stolen by Jonah Hill from Superbad now thats a suprize! You would think he could buy his own.
Apparently, Superbad didn't pay well enough for Jonah Hill...
ahh you young un's... it's chunk from Goonies! Now do the truffle shuffle!
Opening someone's mailbox... isn't that a Federal Offense? His shirt is off because someone spit on it and told him he couldn't come to their party.
@Kaiser-Machead: You would have had me had I actually taken the time to look up "Jonah Hill." Great minds...
Nah, it's not superbad he is thinking of. It's Bad Santa. It totally looks like that fat kid.
I was thinking "Chunk" from Goonies, but he's actually lost all of his weight and is now an entertainment lawyer in Beverly Hills. I guess this white trash version is kind of bizzaro version of Jeff Cohen (Chunk).
Nice moobs.
By the way, I fear this when it comes to delivery of anything with an Amazon.com logo on the box as well as Netflix envelopes. Those bastards at UPS always leave the box outside the door without knocking.
@kingbob337: shit happens when you party naked.
OH MAN BOOBS! Someone get that guy a breast pump STAT!
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It's Wendell.- Boosh!
i have never understood why mailboxes exist. asking for trouble.
i hole in your front door is much safer…
Poor Jonah Hill. Can you imagine 650 people seeing this picture and everyone of them that speaks up mentions how it looks just like you?
Look, if he's hot enough for Andy Samberg's dad, he's hot enough for me!
Isn't some sort of federal offense for opening a mailbox that isn't yours?
Pick on the fat kid fat kid has no feelings!
Maybe he has a raging appetite for consuming Netflix. I'm glad this guy got what he deserved with a haircut like that.
I did the exact same thing when I wasn't getting my newspaper... Well, I went slightly lower tech. I tied a thread to my newspaper, which was tied to a jar with pennies in it (which was perched atop my porch), that would get knocked over and cause a racket when the thief struck... If only the gas meter reader hadn't picked up the paper to bring to my door as a favor.
NSFW!!!
The really sad part of all this? Chubby and his white trash family are probably looking at this (using the free internet at the library I assume) and saying: Lookie me! Ima on the interwebs! Yeee haw! Ima famous!!!
(DISCLAIMER: I'm white, so I can make fun of my race. That is an international law or something)
Yes, this is a federal offense. But good luck trying to get the postal inspectors excited about a $20 DVD.
Cool Mail Tampering poster:
[www.usps.com]
I should try this. a $150 fedex package was either delivered to the wrong address, or grew legs and walked away on friday in the hour between "Left at door - no signature required" and the time I got home.
It would be interesting to see which it actually was, as the fedex claims service is being less than helpful.
@exkon: From the USC 18, 1.83 § 1708 ...Whoever steals, takes, or abstracts, or by fraud or deception obtains any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or any article or thing contained therein which has been left for collection upon or adjacent to a collection box or other authorized depository of mail matter;... ...Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
It looks like at USC 18, 275.2.c § 3572 there is no minimum or maximum fine, but it's shouldn't impair the persons ability to survive on their own, repay the fine, or cause undue burden.
He looks like the kid from"Bad Santa"!
calling that kid chubby is like calling the Mississippi a creek
@FrankenPC: indeed.
He looks like dude from Superbad...
and now their neighbor knows what happened to his "cheescake of the month" subscription.
Oh man, I would have held that kid down and given him a redbelly he would never forget.
Calling Netflix and the cops was probably smarter though.
@DeadWriter: mmm, talking about undue burden - I think that kid is already quite burdened, although unduly, I cannot say. But he'll survive on his own for quite a while, feeding from his own storage, so I'd say, throw him in solitary, in a deep black hole and check after three weeks how he is doing. Mail trolls! Had it coming.
Good way to punish that thief: they ought to rent or buy some really embarassing porno. Maybe, I don't know, gay midget beastiality or whatever will really shame the guy.
Then, package it in a "latest popular release" DVD case, have someone mail it to yourself in a Netflix package.
Hilarity ensues.
@Bweetza: His shirt is off because it's illegal in that county to be arrested with it ON. Haven't you ever seen COPS?
@Guizzy: He looks like he is barely 12 or 13, so he probably wouldn't even know what he is looking at. Unless he is sent out by his parents, who are still fatter, and for that reason unable to heave their sorry carcasses out of their upholstered furniture. Reminds me of the episode of Nip & Tuck (or NipTuck?) where they operate a fat lady out of her armchair.
He left his shirt at home so no one would be able to identify it.
TRUFFLE SHUFFLE!
He thought it was food.
Innocent by reason of obesity.
Federal Offense to go through someones mail.
That picture should earn a spot on The Daily Show.
Sweet... Mr. Superbad wanna-be gets the smack down for stealing Netflix rentals.
I keep telling my fiance that a motion-activated camera is what we need at home to keep the birds from stealing the cat's food. Well, that and a motion-activated sprinkler head on the back porch.
brilliance
Good thing they put that black bar over his eyes. No way I could pick out his ginormous man-boobs in a lineup now.
Kitty says Nom Nom Nom
@jetexas: Redbelly? I think for all the trouble that hick put them through an awful waffle would be more fitting, with to MASSIVE titty twisters.
where can i get a camera like that.
I lose packages all the time, where i live.
i've been after my thief for the last 3 months i need some technology on my side.