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New product designed to scare off would-be porch pirates

When it comes to catching package thieves, some people use surveillance cameras but others want to make sure those thieves get away with nothing more than a scare.

A man in Washington created the Blank Box. It’s a fake package that's booby trapped with shotgun blanks and fishing wire.

When someone picks up the fake, there's a loud boom similar to a firework going off.

The inventor says he was sick of watching thieves on his surveillance cameras just walking away with his items.

"I got tired of all my packages coming up missing I'd be at work and id get home and they wouldn`t be on my front porch,” he said. “I wanted a way to scare them safely and when you scare them hopefully they are going to drop the package and then run away and never come back."

He says he tests each box himself to make sure they're safe and no one gets hurt.