I don’t think stealing a package deserves a broken ankle. You start thinking like that, then you start thinking, maybe a repeat offender should lose a hand.
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I don’t think she “deserved” a broken ankle. But I can’t feel bad that she hurt herself while trying to steal someone else’s shit.
Maybe grim satisfaction would be the best way to put it.
Like, have you ever seen a toddler hit someone, and fall down in the process and start crying? It’s like that.
Hey buddy, If you hurt yourself while trying to be an asshole, you don’t get sympathy.
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A, she quite literally did it to herself without anyone else’s help. B, a broken (or possibly just sprained) ankle is not the same as a severed hand, and slippery slope arguments are fallacious. The suggestion that because one has no sympathy for her ankle injury that they would have none were she to suffer a life-changing maiming, even by her own actions, is an insult to even basic human intelligence.
For example, a while back BB featured a video of MAGA hat wearing gentleman who, while railing at a car obeying road signs, walked smack dab into a pole. It was delicious. If instead he’d tripped and cracked his head open on the pavement, it would not be.
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Well… Technically she did both.
The folks here are only engaging in a bit of schadenfreude, not actively advocating the leg breaking by outside parties for package thieves.
And this is karma in the truest sense. Self inflicted consequences of your own thoughts and actions.
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And I just linked you a peer reviewed study that disagrees
FedEx and UPS will both hold for pickup at their respective stores. I’ve set up a UPS account so this happens by default; if Fedex will do so, I haven’t figured out how.
(Though, I’ve found that for whatever reason, UPS occasionally won’t divert a package and will only deliver to home. I think lead time’s a factor.)
(It was half-sarcasm: unlike in another recent post like this, at least he didn’t drive off and leave her. OTOH, his next step was not to drive her to the ER, but to finish the job. Old saying, “no honor” etc.)
I’m thinking of taking up a collection so we can give Mark a separate website for the endless posts of poor, desperate criminals stealing packages and getting some sort of comeuppance. Probably a market for it. At the very least he could keep punching down somewhere else.
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Honestly, I see shit like this and lament the fact we don’t have universal health care or universal basic income yet.
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FTFY. 
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Maybe I’m not fully Internet-compatible yet but I didn’t enjoy watching some person in pain, regardless of context,
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Yeah, it looks like Washington to me as well. Maybe there is something to be teased about the widening inequality and the effect that has on the precariat.
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As a quoted quote, as in “in quotes” with attribution it sounds one way.
Without the attribution and quotation marks, frankly, more of a booring Internet Tough Guy comment.
But don’t tell me you were quoting someone, without quotation marks and attribution. In a forum that’s about as forgivable as any other offense, if you see what you’ve encouraged here. 
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A poor person has to forgive a lot more trespasses than a rich one.
(no idea about the crossed over misquote of that other poster from your comment, sorry)
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A Ring doorbelll or the equivalent does more than deter package theft, many burglars knock on the front door to see if anyone is home before breaking in. If you have one of these doorbells you can answer when you aren’t home and scare them off.
The sender can mark a package so that it can’t be changed. I’ve run into that before. And for me picking up such a package from UPS is a real nuissance, FedEx on the other hand is very easy to deal with.
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Stealing a package from someone’s porch is just a shitty thing to do. She got what she deserved. Did she stop to consider what might be in that package and what it meant to the person she stole from? In one case I heard of someone having important medicine stolen from their porch. People shouldn’t have to go out of their way to protect their property from thieves.
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They might be desperate people, they might be shitty people. We don’t know. You castigate someone for thinking (without evidence) that the former might be true, while insisting (without evidence) that the latter is true. Maybe time for a rethink?
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You’re so quick to defend the criminals without thinking of the victims. Maybe you need to think about this more. Or perhaps you too are a thief who wants to excuse your own actions. These thieves care about no one but themselves, why should others care about them? They don’t know what’s in these packages and what the importance is to the innocent victims who you care nothing about. It’d be a pretty huge assumption to make that the victims somehow deserved to have their property stolen by these thieves.
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