"Put that sh** back!"
Those were the words an alleged porch pirate was greeted with after he casually grabbed a box from what looks like a Detroiter's front porch in a theft attempt.
But the words weren't as attention grabbing as the assault rifle in the homeowner's hands.
When he was confronted, a doorbell camera catches the pirate politely returning the box and getting back into his car to leave. The altercation is over.
What exactly happened? A comedy, that's what. A local family put it together as a social media goof ... and then it went viral on Twitter. See the original below.
An extended version of the video posted on Reddit's Public Freakout sub got a lot of attention -- and then there was Twitter. When the video was shared by a woman who describes herself as an east side Detroiter who's a nurse and future pharmacist on that platform, it garnered nearly 94,000 likes and 1.4 million views.
A viral phenomenon filmed right here in the snowy Motor City was born.
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