Flash-bang rigged in truck interior stops car thief in video

Here’s a dangerous story we highly recommend you don’t try to replicate. A resident in New Orleans who has had his truck targeted in the past for smash-and-grab type robberies decided to leave a little surprise for would-be thieves in the form of a rigged flash-bang.

Yeah, this dude actually rigged up a flash-bang in his center console that was designed to trigger if someone tried to get into it. You can read the whole local news report on the Fox8Live website and watch the video above. Within that video, you can see the thief hanging out through the broken window of the truck, when all of a sudden a bright explosion is triggered. Predictably, the thief got the hell out of the truck and back into the getaway vehicle after experiencing a flash-bang right to the face.

Of course, this method of deterrent did nothing to stop the truck owner’s window from being smashed in the first place. The particular owner of the lifted Silverado in the video says he’s had his truck’s windows smashed on six other occasions over the previous eight weeks, which is his reason for why he took matters into his own hands.