We all love that feeling of getting our hands on shiny, new gaming accessories, especially when they're as luxurious and expensive as an official Nintendo Switch Pro Controller. We work all day, every day to earn money to buy them, and we go out of our way to find them online or at our local stores, but some people go beyond the norms and acquire them by other means.
The video below, shared on YouTube, shows the moment when a UPS delivery driver stole a Switch Pro Controller straight out of its packaging. The video shows the thief entering a building, slowly opening up one of the boxes, and then quickly leaving with the product tucked away. Urgh. The video description states that the UPS worker was delivering to a neighbour, clearly not noticing the security camera.
More information on this story has been circulating on Reddit via user octoberthug, who is responsible for sharing the video online. In response to comments on their post, octoberthug confirms that the offence has been reported to both the local police department (in Los Angeles) and UPS. The delivery company has reportedly said that "they'd take care of the situation and that it was a temporary worker" who stole the package.
Here's hoping the issue gets resolved without too much fuss, and that the customer manages to get their hands on a Pro Controller soon!
[source reddit.com]
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We will "take care of it" sounds very mafia.
And a "temporary worker"? sounds like his life is now temporary.
Dont MESS with UPS
That is most definitely NOT the way to become a gaming pro.
@Bunkerneath
Guy is prolly gonna be found in a few months the at the bottom of a river with concrete encasing his feet.
That's so weird and confusing, why didn't he just take it while in the truck? Why go out of the way to go all the way to the door, take it out then, and then leave the empty box?
Well he can kiss his job goodbye.
@ALinkttPresent Misdirection; Appears delivered.
I hope his job was worth it.
And he doesn't think in LA they have cameras? He is a joke....lmao
He will be lucky to ever get a job again if that goes on record, and it likely will.
Hi mailma-OH MY GOODNESS!
@ALinkttPresent video cameras in the truck maybe? Also as @RichShadow says, looks like he has delivered it but then someone else has stolen it off the person's doorstep, therefore he's not guilty. Too bad for him
@NewAdvent "They said they'd get to it after they solve all the murders"
@ALinkttPresent Most criminals are pretty dumb.
@NewAdvent a $70 controller? that's just considered petty theft. no jail time.
Welp someone got fired.
@NewAdvent It’s a misdemeanor citation with a court date for this amount. I’m sure UPS will follow up with customers on routes he rode with to see if there’s more, though. And UPS can pursue it as a civil matter.
To folks asking why didn’t he take it in the truck; this time of year there’s a driver and a helper. Probably didn’t want the coworker to see.
@Bunkerneath too funny I’m dying over here.
What an idiot
@ALinkttPresent my guess is that he was with somebody else. Because I know during the holidays they will have like 2 Ups drivers for because of the many packages.
@rdp223 in the city yeah but where I am they had a separate person doing the extra routes to catch on the deliveries.
@ALinkttPresent
He probably was thinking of opening it in his truck but then decided to deliver it anyway but on the way to the door de devil whispered to his ears and couldn't resist.
"I wouldn't have done it if Nintendo didn't make them 70 dollars."
I think the real theft is controller prices
@ALinkttPresent I bet there are lots of cameras in the truck.
That's his Down + B move.
While this sucks, 8bitdo SN30 pro is way better .
@Pichuka97 mic drop!
prior to the video ...”please don’t be black please don’t be black please don’t be DAMMIT!!! Had to be black didn’t ya? Way to do us wrong dummy!” Come on man, stop giving people more ammo to hate us. Ugh, clown. I’m so embarrassed 😞
It's not the first time Nintendo Switch consoles, software, or accessories have caused some to get fired. Nintendo Switch is a success!
I guess UPS doesn't pay well enough.
He dindu nuffin!
Just so to correct the two idiots in the video (which had disabled the comment section for some reason), that's not a PlayStation anything it's a Nintendo Switch Pro Controller.
@Blitzenexx or a pro thief for that matter. i mean, he forgot one of the most basic things: be aware of your location.
We've had 2 would be theives this year unfortunately. We live in a great neighborhood and nothing usually happens but this year has been bad. Thankful for Ring doorbell I was able to scare them off. Sucks some people have no decency!
@Gen0neD if someone uses that as "more ammo to hate us" they probably already did before hand tbh. I mean if someone makes a judgment on an entire race based on one singular occurrence than they are literally delusional. I don't want to derail the comments and trust me I have had similar feelings in the past. Like I mentioned I had a similar situation happen recently but I didn't use that as ammo to hate an entire group of people, that's just childish.
What a Fart-face!!!
Sony's marketing department really nailed it with the PlayStation name all those years ago didn't they.
@redd214 unfortunately, intelligent people like you are the minority. The world makes it so easy to hate and few races are hated more than my own. What you said is absolutely correct, but you and I both know, the use of stereotypes are how the majority of the world thinks. And the only way to eliminate stereotypes, is to stop giving people examples of them. Especially those that are looking for them, to uphold their views. So when I see this, it makes me sad knowing that, this stupid moment just added more fuel to an undying fire. I hurts to see, because I know that when people see me, they see that. That’s all. I don’t want to derail the comment section either. I appreciate and agree with your stance. If only there were more like you
@Gen0neD I get you man, trust me i do. And thanks
The guy in the video sounds like Morgan Freeman.
@redd214 Right on
If it's getting to the point where UPS themselves are taking my packages, then I welcome our delivery drone overlords. I can tell them to drop it in my backyard and not worry about it as much.
Doubt that's the only thing he stole. He needs to be tracked as to what packages he delivered and see if more people are reporting missing stuff.
@Bunkerneath "We will "take care of it" sounds very mafia.
And a "temporary worker"? sounds like his life is now temporary.
Dont MESS with UPS"
UPS will take you DOWNS!
@Bunkerneath
I mean, as an Italian American from Chicago, all I can confirm is that UPS drivers are in a union.
To re-iterate the correct info from a couple of others, he is/was not a driver. Absolutely no way and no how would a seasoned UPS driver want their reputation soiled by seasonal help. Hence, they make them wear those silly yellow vests that stick out like a four course meal in the middle of a concentration camp.
@Shadowmoon522: Heh, definitely. Probably thought that he was alone, but not everyone thinks to check those digital peepers jutting out from ceilings and walls....If they can even be seen at all.
@Gen0neD: What that guy did as an individual was wrong. But I'm not going to attribute that deed to others of his ethnicity, religion, income level, political beliefs, etc. Unfortunately, stereotypes are prevalent and "easier" to process for many. I try to override my own thinking when my mind jumps to that train of thought and try to judge others on an individual basis.
I ordered a Smash Pro Controller for my friend, and had it sent to him. When it was well past the expected delivery date (by like 9 days) I hadn't heard from him I asked him about it. He hadn't recieved it.
I had to get him to go to the post office and ask for it, and it turns out they had it. The box had been labelled as "damaged" and they were simply never going to deliver it, or contact me either.
I assume they were hoping I would forget about it, and he'd never come looking, so they could keep it.
These sorts of events are rare, but they can happen.
@Latinogamerchiz0 Last I checked, every country has thieves. Not sure why you've got to bring America into it.
@Gen0neD Thanks to the rise in people using home security cameras there are videos of package thieves like this guy all over the internet and like 90% of the time the thieves are white, but you know how it is. There's nothing to interpret from any of this but that people can be jerks regardless of the color of their skin, but sadly there'll always be people ready to see otherwise.
If he wanted something for Switch, he should have left the controller and kept the box. AM I RIGHT? Ok...
@Spoony_Tech Companies like UPS will have records of who delivered what items on what days and at what time, so they can track folks that way with ease.
UPS failed to do a background check on this guy.
@Latinogamerchiz0 No need to be racist about it. And Idk what your eyes are telling you, but the UPS worker didn't look white to me. I knew it would be a matter of time before someone brought race into this.
@Discostew It all depends on how many customers complain to them and not the distributer.
@Gen0neD
https://i.imgur.com/Do29PsI.jpg
wen you receive packages make sure to bring them in and not leave them outside to be taken thats been happening alot recently.
@JackEatsSparrows it's actually more than that when you steal mail it's a federal crime. I was trained @ FedEx and worked there for a summer. But like many have said, they may or may not pursue it.
@jaymacx Oh, I completely forgot that part, you’re right.
probably one of the posters in here...
This is a story that I posted here a few years ago..
“Almost a decade ago my (then teenage) cousin had something stolen through the mail. She had been staying at my place for Christmas. It was a video game that she had purchased with her Christmas money. It was expensive (at least for her), since it was a newly released game at the time.
She had accidentally left it at my place (I live in Australia). I phoned her when she arrived home (in New Zealand) to let her know. She asked me if I could please send the game back to her through the post. So I checked the case, making sure that the game was inside of it. I then took it to the post office, got a tracking number for it and sent it to her over in New Zealand.
She phoned me a few days later to let me know that yes, it had arrived in the post. Except that there was no game inside of it. I let her know that I had even checked the game case before sending it off. Somehow the game itself had disappeared through the mail system somewhere between Australia and New Zealand. I went to the post office, they wanted me to fill out a form but was told "there may not be much chance of finding it, since the tracking shows that it actually was delivered". Yes, it was delivered. An empty case was delivered. Well done to you! 🙁”
Well I wouldn't be surprised if the amount of business UPS gets will go down now after people see this
I sure won't be using them anymore.
@Heavyarms55 They also might've hoped you complained to someone higher up instead. A lot of bigger companies, like Amazon, often don't bother looking into it and just send a replacement when they don't see it as delivered. I'm sure at least a few people take advantage of this as well.
@Regpuppy I did look into that before we had found out about it sitting in some storeroom in the last post office before it got to my friend. But Amazon required me to try to contact the shipping company first. I was actually initially worried that the shipping company had shipped it to an entirely different down because there is a town in Texas with the same name as the town in New Mexico where my friend lives. If that happened, short of one of us travelling to Texas, there wouldn't have been anything I could do.
As it turned out, that wasn't the case, and instead all my friend ended up needed to do was ask the post office where it was, and show proof he lived at the address where it was intended to go. (I live in Japan, so it would have been hard for me to do much aside from sending an angry e-mail)
UPS Driver getting Fired. Thats Why? Because most likely Grinch Stole Package is a SCAMMER. Literally.
Glad I don't live in a place where people steal my packages
"Oh, it's a PlayStation?"
@SonicMos Clearly this guy would be on the Naughty list.
@ALinkttPresent Because he is a seasonal helper. He rides along with the actual UPS driver. It would be hard to steal it from inside the truck.
@Heavyarms55 I was mentioning it from my own experience with a local post office. They apparently had two guys hoarding a bunch of Amazon packages from a few people... Apparently they caught on to how often I buy videogame related items and kept hoarding mine as well. The shipping box of some of them was flat out cut open, so it's no wonder how they found out.
Had to cause a fuss and ended up getting some of these "damaged" packages, even though i had gotten replacements. Amazon couldn't be bothered with the return shipping, so I ended up with some doubles I ended up gifting to people. Lol
1. Are UPS wages that bad that someone would risk their job for less than $100 bucks?
2. If he's a temp worker, shouldn't he be glad that he's got a job when many people don't? And with a well-known company to boot. Why the hell would you not only risk your job, but also your future employment prospects by stealing?
3. Some people seem to have a genetic disposition for self-destruction.
@ALinkttPresent because that’s got to be the absolutely most obvious thing to do so the trucks most certainly have cameras too. I watched a video last year of a ups driver drop off one package and steal another. So many people have cameras just for this reason now days. Some people are just stupid.
Some people are just plain stupid. That picture works perfectly for this article though.
It looks like Mario has been caught in a condom
The big problem here is, especially in the US, the complete unsustainability of retail that has been wrought first by Walmart by eliminating truly local retail almost entirely (20 years ago I had 5 local stores I'd go to for things. Today, the nearest store to go to for anything is 30-45 minutes away. Thanks Walmart. Then Amazon coming in to solve that problem by replacing the missing retail with delivery retail.
Overall that's perfectly fine, but when you couple it with our bizarre commercial Christmas system where 6 weeks of the year account for 60% of the entire year's sales, and retailers like Toys R Us, even in good years, lost money 10 months out of the year and made all their revenue in those 6 weeks, it doesn't work. We have a 6 week period where triple the volume of packages are moved, thus normal staffing can't handle it so it depends entirely on renting as many trucks as they own, and hiring a ton of temporary 6 week workers who are never going to care about the job, and can never actually pay the bills with it, and even if they do care will never understand the procedures and requirements like full time career workers. We can't keep having a magic 6 week period that has 60% of all the year's package delivery. it doesn't work. It never will. And breaking the system with pickup locations where you still have to go out of your way to get your packages that should have been delivered doesn't solve it either. Walmart needed to be curbed in the 80s. Amazon can't even been the fall guy for all this....bad as they are, the solved the problem Walmart crated.
Temp workers are always treated as high risk normally especially in this regard. UPS is a decent paying job, he could have just bought a controller instead paying for paying for that and the fine he's about to get in due time. Dummy...
@Tempestryke
Lol. He was a temp worker, he would be kissing the job goodbye at the end of the month anyway. He will be doing it shamefully now.
Sadly employee theft is almost normal. If it’s a temp, doubly so.
Video brought to you by Fed Ex, 'when it should'a been there last week'.
@ALinkttPresent
Because he's a "helper," a temporary hire that assists the driver during the holiday season. He was hiding it from the driver, too.
I'll bet the mfg has TONS of 'Shrinkage' [of product[ which is the proper term in retail for theft.
Nintendo product handlers of all types probably has a body search methods/systems ( when leaving work daily) like those used for casino employees who handle cash lol
End of the job for him. What a loon!
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