SHAMOKIN -- A female thief who took an Amazon box from a porch in Shamokin got a big surprise when she opened it.

Robert Lynch, from whose porch the box was taken at 7 a.m. Wednesday, said the package was filled with cat poop he'd forgotten to put out with his trash.

"Whoever it was got cat [poop] for Christmas," he said.

The "porch pirate" as he calls the thief was caught on his home security system, which he'd installed after two thefts of coins and tools from his vehicle.

The video shows a woman with a large backpack and carrying something covered with a blanket, he said. She is seen looking at the house, walking past and then returning.

She did not go onto the porch. When she was unable to maneuver the box through a wrought iron fence, she slide the box -- about 10 inches long and six to eight inches deep, along the porch to the steps where she could pick it up.

Although nothing valuable was taken, the theft irritated him so he said he called city police. The responding officer took a report and got a good laugh out it, he said.

The litter, which was in a plastic bag inside the box, "stinks like the devil," Lynch said.

Since the caper was posted on Facebook, he's gotten suggestions that he tell his tale to Jimmy Kimmel or Judge Judy. And while he said he got a laugh from the episode, he also worries that there are too many reports of packages being swiped from outside homes.

Someone in the future eyeing a box on Lynch's porch may want to look side before taking it because, he said, "I'll do it again for spite."

With four cats there is no shortage of litter, he said.