<div><p>Police always warn against taking the law into your own hands, but after being ripped off for over a year these home owners had enough.</p><p>Security footage captured a man revisiting a home in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada and stealing anything he could get his hands on. </p><p>"This is a constant problem. It's an escalating problem in our town," one of the home owners <a href="http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/b-c-couple-fights-back-against-thieves-with-paintballs-1.1865097">Nicole Lezzi told CTV British Columbia</a>.</p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Theif.PNG" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Theif_GH_content_550px.PNG 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Theif_GH_content_650px.PNG 650w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Theif_GH_content_750px.PNG 750w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Theif_GH_content_850px.PNG 850w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></figure></div><p>Rob and Nicole Lezzi said they have been robbed of everything from iPods to hand tools and attachments for their truck. </p><p>The couple said that they have improved their fences, put on better locks and set up security cameras, but the thieves kept coming back. </p><p>So now they're shooting them with paint.</p><p></p><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p></p><p>Rob said that shooting them with a paint balls is the best way to deal with the problem since it has escalated so much.</p><p>"I didn't want to shoot him with a pellet gun, because you're going to make him bleed, like really bleed, like get stuff inside you and get infected," <a href="http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/b-c-couple-fights-back-against-thieves-with-paintballs-1.1865097">he explained</a>. "You get hit with a paintball, it's like getting punched. I didn't want to punch him, so a paintball just seemed like the logical thing."</p><p>RCMP Const. Tracey Wolbeck warns that vigilante justice like this is both dangerous and potentially illegal.</p><p>"We can't support that. They need to call us; we're the professionals. We have the tools to deal with that, the skills and the training to deal with that. These can be very volatile situations," <a href="http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/b-c-couple-fights-back-against-thieves-with-paintballs-1.1865097">she said.</a></p><amp-iframe sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin" layout="responsive" frameborder="0" height="9" width="16" src="https://rumble.com/embed/u7h67.vgufr/"></amp-iframe><p>What do you think? Should they leave it to the police, or take matters into their own hands?</p></div>