Home Video Catches Real Life Grinch Stealing Christmas Presents Off Front Porch

A lot of people shop online to avoid holiday throngs of the apocalyptic Black Friday variety. Problem is, a grinch might try to steal your Christmas before you even get it in the mail.

That’s what happened recently to an Austin, Texas resident who caught a real-life grinch casually stealing gifts recently delivered through the mail to his door right off his front porch.

Video from a home surveillance camera shows a man strolling up to the front door. He picks up the packages and walks back to his silver Volkswagen beetle, then he’s off.

“[It’s] kind of disturbing to see how casually it was done,” Skaggs said. He was at work when it happened.

“While I’m making an honest living someone is exploiting that, just taking the things that other people have paid for. So, it’s disgusting.”

The thief took off with a Christmas present for Skaggs from his wife and some birthday presents for their two-year-old daughter. (source)

Yep. The thief just woke up, decided to sell out his humanity and self-respect, then walked up to someone’s porch, stole their Christmas gifts and walked off all la-ti-da, like ya do. The victim’s neighbors also reported similar package thefts.

Apparently this time of year, people like to go around following mail delivery trucks and just snatch stuff up after it’s delivered. It’s Christmas. Guaranteed stuff to snatch. Too easy.

Except it shouldn’t be that easy. The Grinch Who Stole Christmas was a cartoon, not an instructional manual. How about people should take a minute to locate and blow the dust off of their moral compass and stop being horrible green jerks to each other? Do these thieves regift this stuff? How do they look people in the eye doing that? Or, for that matter, how do these people look themselves in the eye in the morning when they’re in the bathroom getting ready to go steal more people’s Christmases? I mean, if you can’t not steal someone’s two-year-old’s birthday present at Christmas time, when can you be a halfway decent human being?

The one silver lining to this story is the man was able to get his packages replaced free of charge as they were purchased through Amazon.com. Speaking of, I wonder if those drones Amazon President Jeff Bezos was talking about replacing humans to deliver the online store’s packages will come with tazers and/or other non-lethal weapons to deter this sort of thing?

Hm…