Montreal man gets stolen goods back after neighbours report porch pirates [Video]

A Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (NDG) man says his community helped save his holidays after he was victim of so-called “porch pirates.”

It’s not that rare of an occurrence, yet in this case police were able to return the items the next day.

“There was a citizen who saw the packages coming off my porch and called 911 as he was following them from a distance and described them to the police and they were walking to the Metro,” said Adam Reider.

Meanwhile, Reider wasn’t home but he was able to see what was happening in real time, thanks to a post on social media.

Not long after, Reider got a call from the police.

“[They said] some of your packages were stolen. I just wanted to let you know some good news that we found the people, we’ve arrested them and we have your stuff. And I was like, what? I couldn’t …