Ilearned the hard way that not all “porch protectors” are as reliable as they seem when my neighbor’s Goldie snatched one of my sneakers right off the porch. While some deterrents may look spooky and stand tall, they don’t exactly have the skills to fend off thieves.

This is especially true when the culprit is clever enough to outsmart them. Melanie Armstrong, a woman from Oklahoma, learned this lesson firsthand when she had a package delivered to her porch, guarded by her trusty skeleton, conveniently named Skelly.

After receiving a notification from the delivery driver that the package was successfully dropped off, Armstrong came home to a shocking surprise: it was gone.

Puzzled by what had happened, she decided to check her security camera footage. What she saw left her in stitches!

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