New Orleans, like many major cities, is seeing an uptick in crimes recently, including carjackings and car theft.
The problem has become so prevalent in the city that this one resident took matters into his own hands and set up an alarm of sorts in his car.
The guy set his truck so that, if it was broken into, a "flash-bang" grenade would be set off. It's not a harmful explosive and would only serve to scare the criminal away.
You can watch this work to perfection here:
That dude took off like you'd never seen before.
I only wish we had sound.
But, of course, being a leftist city, the police are now going to crack down on ordinary citizens like this one who have found creative and non-lethal ways to protect their properties.
Here's what the local Fox station reported:
NOPD says something rigged up to detonate can be considered a bomb and could be illegal.
Okay, it could be illegal. But why aren't you worried about all the crimes this dude is fighting against?
This is like when Gotham PD tries to stop Batman for goodness sake.
Although he still has to replace his window, he came up with a deterrent that chased away the would-be thief Friday night.
"To see him like gleefully walk up and just smash my eighth window in the past couple months and jump in and then you know to see the detonation go off and his reaction," the man described.
His broken window stings a little less than the other six times this has happened over the last eight weeks.
"I don't want this guy to die for what he did, but I don't want him to just be able to smash and grab and run away," he said.
Surveillance video shows that the window-smashing thief triggers his loud, non-lethal triggered deterrent set up in the center console of the truck.
"He probably didn't get hurt that bad, but it wasn't pleasant and it might deter him and his friends and tell other people not to do this too because, without something like this, there is no consequence because they're not going to get arrested," he said.
This satisfaction is not something many others can claim.
Eight times this guy has been hit in the last couple of months! That's insane!
"My condo is for sale. I don't want to live there anymore because I can't keep paying for windows," he said. "It's almost like a culture now on a big night, whether it's something like the Final Four or you know, a holiday weekend, something like that, you can almost expect it in my neighborhood."
He says his truck almost always is targeted. He believes the thieves are going for guns they assume are in trucks because he has left valuables in the past that have gone untouched.
"Leadership has failed and more ways than one when it comes to this situation, just crime in the area, like, I reported to the police almost every time and I don't blame the police for this, they're understaffed and like there's too much crime. I really blame the fact that like these, these people get caught, and then they basically get bailed out," he said. "Whoever did this, definitely, had a bad night. He might never do it again because every time he goes in there, this could happen to him."
"It's a small battle in the war, I guess, that no one else is fighting," he added.
You can't blame this guy for protecting his property however he can.
It's a sad state of affairs when regular people have to take these matters into their own hands.
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