Couple baited thieves with bicycle left outside, then beat thieves with aluminum bat

[Demovictory9]

A California couple who say they were sick of getting robbed after moving into their new home ended up behind bars when they decided to get revenge. Corey Curnutt, 25, and Savannah Grillot, 29, say that a burglar broke into their car the very first night they spent in their Visalia home, and that another one did the same thing just a few nights later. So they decided to take action, leaving a bicycle outside their home and then, when someone came to nab it, allegedly beating the would-be thief with aluminum baseball bats, ABC 7 reports. Police say they did this to at least four people between July and November of last year, posting videos of the beatings to YouTube, but neighbors say there were many more victims than that, Fox News reports.

Curnutt and Grillot, who never reported any of the alleged bike thieves to police, were ultimately detained themselves and booked on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and conspiracy. They're currently out on bail. Police say the public YouTube videos, which have since been taken down, helped them make an arrest; neighbors had reported the scheme to police. One neighbor says the suspects are nice people, but "we had mentioned, 'Maybe it's not the best idea, you're kind of bringing them into the neighborhood that might not be here otherwise'. And it was a lot, it was every night, and just a lot of activity." She adds the couple moved away about a month ago. As for the victims, more could come forward, but a Visalia police lieutenant explains, "They're reluctant victims, so they're not wanting to come out and say, 'Yeah, I was stealing a bike and got assaulted.'"

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[dewsgirl]

1. These people are lucky no one died.😳

[LonePirate]

2. A jury will likely not convict them.

[Jake Stern]

6. I wouldn't

Cops don’t do a damn thing about property crimes, in fact much of the time they don’t even show up to these type of calls. I’ve watched a friend get told by Denver cops that they would send out a detective “before the end of the week” to investigate the theft of his vehicle. Compounding the problem is that some DAs are announcing they will no longer prosecute “minor” crimes like breaking into cars and theft of property in the name of “criminal justice reform”.

The very people who are supposed to deal with these crimes have abdicated their duty and now want to bitch when people take matters into their own hands.

[CaptYossarian]

3. I wouldn't have gone with a bat. A tazing to the nads would send a message.

[Jake Stern]

8. Google "bait bike" videos

There are people who fit bike seats with tasers. When criminal starts to ride off a button is pushed and their balls get zapped.

Hilarious shit.

Don’t want your balls fried? Don’t try to steal bikes.

[JonLP24]

10. I have had a lot of bikes stolen living here

I expect it so much that I never thought of making YouTube videos. The reason why so many bikes are stolen in my city is because you can trade a bike for a bag of dope. Most of the time my bike was stolen was when it was locked up so they have will get rid of parts for the rest of the bike.

I don't own bikes anymore but if I did I would keep it inside the home.

[CaptYossarian]

17. Talk about being in the hot seat.

[marble falls]

4. I hate hunters who bait and what these two did was the same thing ...

jail them.

[Quackers]

13. I hate thieves

I understand if you don’t like the violence aspect of it. I get that. It’s just people are so damn tired of being robbed, packages being stolen, their home being broken into, and their lives constantly being upended by thieves.

I support bait cars, bait packages, and whatever else that can be used to deter, identify, and stop asshole theives from ruining someone else’s life.

[marble falls]

15. I hate people who hunt people, I hate people who almost nightly set a trap to ...

justify beating other people with a baseball bat. Show me where in the law it says the punishment for attempted petty theft is a beating with an aluminum baseball bat. Show me where they are allowed to take the law into their own hands, to be cop, prosecutor, judge, jury and punisher.

They never not once called the cops.

Two wrongs do not make a right and due process and and protection against cruel and unusual punishment are rights everyone including you and I and even alleged bicycle thieves have.

Maybe you don't really think these two idiots are such great people?

[Kaleva]

5. A practical problem with that is one doesn't know the ferocity of the other person

[alphafemale]

7. Maybe those thieves will think twice before trespassing and stealing again

Scum.

[panader0]

9. When I was a wee lad of 6 I lived in Sidi Slimane, Morocco.

My dad was in the AF. This was about '57. The fence of the base was rolled
barbed wire. The local Arabs would throw a rug over the wire and loot the
houses on base. My dad bought my brother and me new bikes.
One night I was awakened to see my mom chasing two bicycle thieves
with a broom as they rode off on our bikes. She was fearless.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. All of you who think this is okay,

are probably completely okay with the FBI setting up people to be terrorists.

Not very much difference.

[Raine]

12. That what happens when you victimize people

you might end up being the victim, it's the risk you take when you're a thief .

[Takket]

14. i feel no sympathy for the theives but

vigilantly justice is NOT something any peaceful and civilized society wants to be the norm. You want to mess around with a porch pirate by putting a glitter bomb in a package or a sack of dog crap, fine, but assault is assault.

[NCLefty]

16. Wouldn't you eventually realize that it wasn't helping?

There seems to be more to it, like they just enjoy beating people?