Brazilian citizens aren’t calling the police or waiting for courts to decide the fate of criminals. Instead, they hand out their own form of vigilante justice.

Locals caught a man attempting to break into a home in Teresina, in the Brazilian state of Piaui. They beat him up, hog tied his legs and arms behind his back, before picking him up and placing him onto an ant hill.

The would-be robber can be heard screaming and crying as the ants bite him.