The Grinch and Scrooge may have some company this year in the form of a UPS driver. When Al Alverson of Harris County in Houston, TX ordered an iPad mini to give to his daughter for Christmas, the package was delivered by a FedEx courier. Not much later, a UPS driver came to deliver a different package. After dropping off his delivery, the UPS driver saw the iPad mini, examined it, then took off with the package like it was his. Unfortunately for him, the whole act was caught by a security camera.
The Houston father complained to UPS but did not receive sufficient help, so he then posted the footage on YouTube. Since the video went viral, UPS acted swiftly and replaced the father's iPad mini order, identified the delivery man (he was a part-time employee hired to help with holiday deliveries) and fired him immediately. He was arrested and charged with theft by the Harris County Sheriff's Office, but Alverson, in a very forgiving act of holiday kindness, has since decided not to press charges because the driver eventually returned the package.
Via CBS Houston
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Why drop the charges? How many other peoples' stuff has he stolen and not gotten caught?
December 22 2012 at 9:25 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWell, this probably isn't the FIRST time a delivery driver has been labeled as a "grinch". In fact, we can all enjoy a movie I know of which airs BACK-TO-BACK for about 24 hours ("A Christmas Story"). It features a family which has a father who can repair furnaces, at the same time having quite a BAD way of using language - a mother who helps her sons out carefully, and then will CRY when she sees the head of a duck being CUT OFF - then, the two little boys, one of whom has a desire for a Red Ryder BB gun, and the other, a bit younger, I think would be your average brat.
December 21 2012 at 2:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replya lower class primate, imagine that!?
December 21 2012 at 1:01 PM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down ReplyNo racism in your life, eh whitey?
December 22 2012 at 9:26 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replya ******, imagine that?!
December 21 2012 at 12:48 PM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down ReplyRemember the delivery guy a few years ago that was caught throwing a flat screen TV over a fence into someone's yard, instead of taking it up to the door? Yeah, some people are just brilliant.
December 21 2012 at 9:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyGee, two racist comments from the same idiot, what a surprise... couldn't you have just packaged them into one, or are you too stupid?
December 22 2012 at 9:29 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply