California Man Had His Jacket Stolen in a Club. He Came Up With The Most Elaborate Plot to Get it Back: ‘That Girl Was Underage’

How far will one man go just to get his favorite jacket back? Austin (@austinisaboringname), who lost his jacket in a bar, talked about his convoluted plot to get it back on Instagram.

“In the last week, I made a fake hot girl Instagram account to catfish this guy. I snuck into his house, and then I made a date to meet up with him in person,” Austin explained. Even his initial rundown of the plan could rival every stalking series known to Netflix.

But why would he push through with a plan that’s legally dubious?

“It’s all because he stole my jacket,” Austin alleged.

“I was in a bar and I left my jacket on a chair. And by the way, this is my best jacket. This is the only jacket I look good in—I need this jacket,” Austin explained. Legal complications aside, it looks as though Austin is ready to go to great lengths just to retrieve his jacket.

“I got the management to show me the security footage, and I see this,” Austin stated, stitching the footage. A man in a red shirt took what was supposedly Austin’s jacket from his chair at the bar. He then set out on a mission to find the jacket thief.

Despite asking everyone else at the bar, nobody else knew who he was. But then, Austin noticed that the culprit was wearing a shirt with a frat name on it. Austin claimed that the bar was next to the University of Southern California (USC).

“So, I’m assuming that he was either in that frat or was in that frat at USC,” Austin concluded. But his stalking wouldn’t end online.

The plot to retrieve his jacket

“I also know that frats have photos of all their members in the hallways, so I decided that I had to go into this frat house and look on the wall until I saw this guy’s name,” he confessed. It all seemed like a plan until Austin drove up to the frat house the next day.

“I just showed up at the frat house. I didn’t really have a plan, didn’t really know what I was going to do,” he said. But he walked up to the doorstep of the frat house and panned the camera to the mess inside. There were boxes on the floor and things strewn around in disarray.

But there was no security. Austin found the man he was looking for and saw that he had graduated two years ago. Now that he has the man’s name, Austin looked him up online and sent him a message. The man saw Austin’s message but didn’t respond.

“So, the next logical step was to make an Instagram page for a hot girl, and then DM him from that page,” Austin said. The jacket thief took the bait and replied to the fake hot girl page. Austin said that he flirted with the man from the fake page. Although he didn’t disclose for how long this happened, the man eventually agreed to meet up with him for coffee.

When the fateful day came, Austin confidently sat across the table from the man. He called the man by his name, prompting him to look up.

“Do I know you?” The man’s face was blurred, but confusion was evident in his tone. Austin introduced himself.

“Sorry, you’re here to meet a girl, right?” Austin decided to mess with the man a little more. He was already confused by the situation.

“Yeah, that girl was underage,” Austin joked, prompting the man to react in shock. But he immediately told the frat man that it was all a joke.

Did Austin get his jacket back?

Essentially, Austin was willing to stalk his target, break into his former residence, and create a fake profile to lure the man out all for his favorite jacket. His clip went viral on Instagram, with many commenters commending Austin’s wild hustle.

An Instagram comment reads, “ykw, this is completely reasonable for your favorite jacket.”

But commenters were also curious if Austin had gotten his jacket back. He went through such an elaborate scheme for the jacket, after all.

One wrote, “Where’s the part 2? Did you get the jacket back or not?” And so far, Austin is yet to post a part 2. Unfortunately, it’s unclear if the man returned the jacket to Austin.

Regardless, theft is a crime, and it would be ideal for Austin to get his jacket back. But a scheming man posting about his devious retrieval plot on Instagram seems to be the best deterrent against jacket theft.

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