Not your typical theft caught on camera – but a couple of pint-sized porch pirates swiping packages in Redmond.
“It’s just terrible – it’s just sad. It should never happen – I could never imagine this happening,” said a man whose packages were stolen.
The victim, who wished to remain anonymous, told KIRO 7 he was coming back to his apartment on Saturday, expecting to see a couple of packages on the doorstep.
But there was nothing, so he checked his security video.
The video first showed a little girl sneaking up the stairs and checking out two packages, then scampering off.
Moments later, she returns with a little boy.
They grab a smaller package and go back down.
Then the boy returns and swipes the bigger package, a box nearly as big as he is.
“Maybe they didn’t realize how serious, how bad – what they did, but they should,” said the victim.
He says the kids tore through the packages outside another nearby building and scattered the contents – laundry detergent and over-the-counter medicine – all over the ground.