Theft is not just take, it’s also give. The criminal gets away with your stuff, sure, but they also leave you holding a combo pack of vulnerability and powerlessness. So, if you can get the chance to take them down, would you walk away from it?
One guy decided he’d give confrontation a miss and go straight to revenge after he caught his neighbor swiping gas from his back porch. Using his own bodily fluids as bait, he set up a trap the thief would never trace back to him, then watched the chaos unfold.
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