If you bought a product online and it still hasn't reached you, there may be a darker explanation than you thought: thousands of packages were stolen from moving train cars in Los Angeles, California, leaving the track awash with empty boxes. as captured by the Noticias Telemundo cameras.
The thieves used tools to loot the moving wagons and threw the boxes to the side of the tracks, where they opened them and escaped with their contents.
The Union Pacific freight company said it was aware of the problem and authorities said they are investigating what happened.
For companies, this looting represents multimillion-dollar losses.
But NBC Los Angeles also reached out to people who
waited weeks for their orders
only to find out later that they would never arrive.
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Eve Shaffer, for example, had been waiting for a baby seat in Seattle for two weeks, when the aforementioned outlet contacted her to say that the open box was near the railroad tracks in East Los Angeles.
Target and FedEx only told you that your package was late.
"Honestly, I am disgusted with human behavior," she told the aforementioned media.
The robberies took place on the roads near Valley Boulevard and North Mission Road, but they were felt across the country: In Texas, for example, the Fort Worth Fire Department did not receive the helmet of a retired colleague who had died and who they had to hand over his family: he was lying on a sidewalk near the tracks.
[A couple who stole millions escapes and leaves a goodbye note to their children: "Someday we will be together again"]
Looting in stores
In addition, on Wednesday night there was a new mass robbery in a California shopping center: at least five thieves entered a Nordstrom store in Westfield Topanga and fled in a car with luxury products after spraying a guard with a chemical spray of security.
So far there are no detainees.
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This is the latest of several looting in recent weeks in large cities, in which gangs of thieves, armed with hammers and crowbars, broke into closed luxury stores and took goods valued in tens of thousands of dollars.
Last Monday, for example, about 20 people stormed a Nordstrom store in The Grove shopping complex in Los Angeles, and fled with merchandise worth about $ 5,000.
Authorities have responded by intensifying patrols and shops have increased security.
It is also investigated if the assaults were organized through social networks.
California Governor Gavin Newson ordered increased surveillance in the state's main shopping centers.
In Union Square in San Francisco, following a wave of robberies last week at nearly a dozen stores, including Louis Vuitton, Burberry and Bloomingdale's, city authorities diverted traffic near these luxury stores in order to prevent thieves can easily park, steal and flee.
"We will do what it takes to end this madness,"
San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said, according to NBC News.
