A ‘sneaky’ California man tried to steal a neighbor’s package by wearing his t-shirt over his face.
Footage from a Ring Doorbell Camera taken June 2 shows a young man and his dog walking onto an apartment complex floor after appearing to take a walk in Upland, California.
The man walks towards his flat, but his eyes are fixated on the neighbor’s small package sitting outside their front door.
A man in Upland, California (pictured), appeared to be walking his dog before spotting his neighbor’s unattended package on June 2
Although the man seems to notice the Ring Doorbell Camera, and was filmed during the encounter, he decides to try his hand at package theft anyway.
He disappears behind a wall for a few moments, before suddenly emerging with his blue shirt pulled over his face.
The misguided porch pirate, who’s still holding his dog on a leash, then snatches the package and rushes back into his own home.
The package owner told Viral Hog that they called on local authorities and the leasing office to use disciplinary action against their neighbor.
‘We have lost lots of packages within our community. I found my neighbor doing something stupid,’ they wrote.
‘I’ve called the police and they cited him as a petty thief. I also reported him to the leasing office asking for eviction.’
They added that they found the move ‘extremely unacceptable’ amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that has swept the United States and the world.
In California, health officials have recorded more than 133,000 cases and reported a death toll of 4,697.
The United States surpassed two million cases on Wednesday, making it the only country to reach such a high number of cases. More than 112,900 people have died.
The porch pirate appeared to enter his own apartment, but returned minutes later with his t-shirt pulled over his face as a makeshift mask
The man picked up the stolen package and ran off into his apartment thinking he’d outsmarted the Ring Doorbell Camera
The neighbor said the man has been cited with petty theft and the leasing office has been contacted about a potential eviction
California Gov. Gavin Newsom allowed the state to enter Stage 2 of its ‘Resilience Roadmap,’ an outlined guide for reopening the state’s businesses and economy after lockdown orders were enforced.
Several industries, including retail, office workplaces and child care, opened with some limitations.
Some parts of California will enter Stage 3 on Friday, which allows ‘higher-risk workplaces’ to reopen with modifications.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (pictured) allowed the state to begin Stage 2 of the ‘Resilience Roadmap’ and some counties will begin Stage 3 on Friday
Bars, professional sports. movie theaters, gyms, personal care services and in-person religious services are among the industries that will be allowed to resume operations.
This comes amid a recent spike in coronavirus cases in California. Health officials said they expect to see an uptick in cases as reopening continues and with the addition of anti-racism protests.
‘No, we are completely not out of the woods, we are still in in the middle of the woods and we still have a lot of risk,’ Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer told The Los Angeles Times.
‘I know how desperate people are to get be able to get back to events but that is not in our health officer order nor is it in the state health officer order.’
On Tuesday, the state reported more then 3,000 cases for the second day in a row. The majority of cases reside in Los Angeles County.
In Los Angeles County, protests over the death of George Floyd, an African-American man killed while in police custody on Minneapolis, Minnesota, have prompted swarms of demonstrators to take to the streets.
Because coronavirus is spread mainly from person to person with respiratory droplets, some health experts warned that protesters shouting, police use of tear gas and pepper spray could further infections.
Still Gov. Newsom said there’s no turning back now that the state has begun stripping away lockdown guidelines.
‘As we phase in, in a responsible way, a reopening of the economy, we’ve made it abundantly clear that we anticipate an increase in the total number of positive cases,’ Gavin said Tuesday during a meeting with Oakland community leaders.
‘But we’ve also made it abundantly clear the concurrent recognition and commitment that we are in a substantially different place than we were 90 days ago. We have hundreds of millions of masks now in our possession.’