A grocery delivery arriving around 11 p.m. was late enough to get Denise Angelone’s attention. The sound that came next made her check the cameras.
Someone was jiggling the handles of her front door.
Angelone, who lives in King County, Washington, was expecting an Amazon delivery. The person outside was the delivery driver, and her Ring camera had recorded what happened on the porch.
The video shows him setting down two bags, reaching for the door and then completing another familiar part of a delivery: taking a photo of what he had left behind.
At The Door
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Angelone told KIRO 7 she heard the handles around 11 p.m. and initially had no idea what was happening outside.
The security footage begins to fill that in. A driver pulls into the driveway, walks onto the porch wearing what appears to be an Amazon vest and places two grocery bags near the entrance.
Then he reaches for the door.
Angelone told the station that seeing him try it frightened her. Once the door did not open, the driver photographed the delivery and left.
She contacted Amazon that night and later said the company had obtained her video and had been in touch with her several times while looking into what happened.
Amazon told Angelone it believed the driver had been subcontracted through another company, according to KIRO. The station also sought comment from Amazon and had not received a response when its story was published.
What He Was Doing
The camera answers the easy question: the driver did try the door.
It does not answer why.
Nothing reported by KIRO establishes that he was attempting to enter the home for some unrelated purpose. The same footage shows a delivery in progress before he touches the handle and a delivery photo being taken immediately afterward.
That photo is not an unusual flourish. Amazon’s published instructions for delivery partners tell drivers to select an appropriate delivery location and take a clear photo of the completed drop.
Viewers who watched the KIRO report quickly focused on what happened around the attempted opening rather than the handle alone.
Several suggested the driver may have thought the groceries belonged just inside the entrance, while others wondered whether he was trying to get past an outer door so he could knock on the main one. Those are interpretations of the footage, not explanations Amazon or the driver has confirmed.
One of the most-liked reactions was considerably less alarmed: “What a fuss about nothing.”
Another viewer pointed to the bags, the delivery photograph and the driver’s behavior after finding the door locked, arguing that the sequence looked more like someone finishing a delivery than someone trying to sneak inside.
Locked From Now On
Angelone was not willing to make that assumption from inside the house at 11 p.m.
She told KIRO she was glad her doors had been locked and planned to stop scheduling nighttime deliveries.
She also stopped short of claiming she knew what the driver intended.
Amazon’s investigation, as described by Angelone, had not supplied that answer when KIRO published its report.