- This guy is a crazy mastermind.
- Glitter is the herpes of arts and crafts, okay?
That's never getting out.
♪ (industrial intro) ♪
- (Rober) This guy took a package from my porch
and now he's about...
This guy took a package from my porch--
- (indignant gasp) That's messed up.
- (Rober) ...and now he's about to open it
in his car but what he doesn't know is--
- I saw this.
- Oh, is this the glitter bomb thing?
Dude, I love this guy's channel!
- (Rober) But what he doesn't know is this is a custom-built
bait package that is recording him on four different cameras,
and it's about to unleash a pound of the world's finest glitter,
along with some-- - Yes!
- (Rober) ...a pound of the world's finest glitter,
along with-- - Oh, [bleep].
- (Rober) To understand how we go to this point,
first we need to rewind.
- Oh, this is so amazing.
- (Rober) About seven months ago, I noticed a package
being reported as delivered but it never arrived,
so when I checked our security cameras, I noticed this lovely couple
out for a stroll. - Oh, no!
Are you serious? A couple?
- This happened to me three weeks ago.
- That's so [bleep].
- (Rober) As you can see, they have backpacks on
and they're just going around the neighborhood,
making an afternoon out of this.
- Wow, these are professionals.
- (Rober) If you've ever been in a situation like this,
you just sort of feel violated-- - Yes. Yes.
- (Rober) ...and I took this to the police,
and even with the video evidence, they said it's just not worth
their time to look into. - Really?
- (Rober) ...feel powerless. I just felt like something needs
to be done to take a stand against dishonest punks--
- Sometimes you have to take things into your own hands.
- (Rober) When they open the package, I just wanted to celebrate
their choice of profession with a cloud of glitter.
- This is amazing.
- (Rober) But I also wanted to record their reaction,
and that's what makes the engineering here
an order of magnitude more difficult, because if you think about it,
this thing has to sit on a porch--
- This guy is a crazy mastermind.
- (Rober) So after six months-- - Oh, my gosh.
Six months?!
- No normal person would ever take the time to do this,
but he's like, you know what, I'm so upset I'm gonna do it.
- (Rober) This custom printed circuit board is the brains
of the operation.
It has a built-in acceleromater, and when it's jostled
it will check the GPS signal to see if it's been moved from the porch.
- Oh, my god. He's so smart.
- (Rober) It sends a signal to all the phones to wake up
and start recording, and I'm using four phones
that have a wide angle filming mode-- - He bought four phones for this?
- He put a lot of effort, money, and just mental energy into this.
- (Rober) So as you can see, I'm guaranteed to--
- Oh, my god.
I would spend so much money for this.
- (Rober) And nestled in here, we've got a can of fart spray.
No joke, you can clear a room with one spray of this.
- Dude, I've smelled that before. Just one is so [bleep] gross.
- (Rober) Not only is this just a nice touch,
but we keep repeating five sprays every 30 seconds
until they throw the package out of their car or house
before they realize there's four phones inside.
- That's insane.
- (Rober) ...before they realize there's four phones inside.
- (laughing) Oh, my god.
I'm so excited to see where this is going to go.
- (Rober) ...always know the package's location at all times
due to the GPS on the phone-- - He thought of everything.
This guy is a genius.
- (Rober) All four phones have LTE data plans,
so they upload the footage to the Cloud--
- Wow.
- (Rober) And then for the pièce de résistance,
we have a cup here on top that spins from a motor underneath,
so once you load in a butt-ton of the world's finest glitter,
the motor spins really fast and the centrifugal force fires--
- Scientists, man.
- I would have just put dog poop.
- (Rober) And then, finally, to make it look like
an actual delivered package, we added some shrink wrap
and a delivery label. - A whole delivery label?
- (Rober) ...perhaps my favorite part of the whole thing
because if the thief wasn't in such a hurry,
they'd see the package is actually coming from my childhood hero
and inspiration for this project, Kevin MacCallister.
- This is the best part, yeah, the Home Alone reference.
- (Rober) So the idea is the bad guy comes
and takes it off your porch, then lifts the lid,
and these two limit switches tell the circuit board brain inside
that the lid's been removed, and then that sets
everything in motion. - Hmmph, nice.
- (Rober) So I put it on the porch and now all that was left
to do was wait. - Who are these people
that steal packages?
- (Rober) Okay, I was at work and I got a notification
that the geofence we set up had been tripped--
- He's so excited.
- (Rober) So then I checked the cameras and, sure enough,
the package is gone.
So I checked the GPS and sort of tracked it,
and it appears they're in a car because they seemed
to leave my house pretty quickly, but it seems to have stopped
in a parking garage, which is where I'm headed to now,
and if you're new here, this isn't a prank channel,
so I am completely out of my comfort zone.
- Oh, my god. Yes!
- (Rober) And there she is.
- See, I think the perfect part of this is a prank
is it's only a prank if someone is an [bleep].
- Oh, [bleep]! It worked!
- (Rober) So it appears he was walking on the sidewalk--
- (groaning) It makes me so happy. I love this video.
- (Rober) ...then he takes the package and gets in his car
and eventually makes it to this parking garage,
where this glorious sequence unfolds. - Oh, my gosh.
(glitter bomb explodes)
- (thief) What the--?! - (giggling)
- Remember, glitter is the herpes of arts and crafts, okay?
That's never getting out.
- That's what he gets!
- I wouldn't have blurred his face.
Hang him out to dry. Dunk on 'em!
- (spectators cheering)
- (thief) Oh, my god. I don't know what this is.
- That's what you [bleep] get! Oh, my god.
- Oh, my gosh.
- (sighing) This is fantastic.
And it's bold because the car is in the driveway right there.
- Oh, my god.
- (thief) The f--? (glitter bomb explodes)
What the [bleep]?
- They all have the same reaction.
- Imagine just seeing his obituary, like, "Cause of death: glitter bomb."
- This is karma. Karma's a bitch!
(fart spray goes off) - The fart spray!
- It's just the pièce de résistance.
- (thief) Oof! - (laughing)
- (thief) That stinks! - (laughing)
- (chuckling)
- Oh, my god.
(gasping) Another package stealer?
- This is so sad to me that these people
are just stealing off of other people's porches
and just go home like it's nothing.
- (recording) Keep the change, you filthy animal.
- (laughing) Oh, my god! That's perfect.
Home Alone reference. I love it.
- (laughing)
Now you gotta vacuum it up, bro.
- (Rober) So the moral of the story is just don't take
other people's stuff. - Yeah.
- (Rober) Not only is it not cool, but on the plus side,
you'll never find yourself in this situation.
Or perhaps even worse, this one.
- (thief) [Bleep], my girlfriend's gonna get in here like,
"Who you had in here?" - (laughing)
That's what he gets, man!
- (thief) "Who you had in here?"
- Yeah, bitch, you got a stripper in here.
Oh, my god!
- I am impressed and shocked that this guy
went to all this trouble and its such a good payoff every time.
- (FBE) So that was a video uploaded by Mark Rober.
- Mark Rober! He's the G.O.A.T.
- The first video I saw of his was his carnival game hacks
because I've been trying to beat that one rope ladder
climb game for two years at Knott's Berry Farm
and it's [bleep] rigged and I knew it!
- (FBE) He retaliated against package thieves
by creating a booby trap that sprayed them with glitter
and fart smells while recording the reactions.
- I think that was so genius.
- (FBE) The video garnered over 10 million views in less than 24 hours.
- What?! Really?
- (FBE) What do you think it was about this particular video
that made it so popular?
- That it's relatable.
Everyone has that fear of not getting their package.
- It does feel like justice was served, you know?
Now those people have learned their lesson.
Don't take other people's stuff off their front door.
- He used glitter and fart spray.
It's like a unicorn farted in someone's house.
- It's so weirdly relatable almost because he's excited
about everything he's doing.
I don't understand any of the math that goes into any of his videos,
but it makes me interested because you can tell
how passionate he is about what he's doing.
- (FBE) Some have said this trap that Rober created
seems to be a relatively harmless way to get payback for having
your property stolen, while others think that
this isn't enough of a punishment for someone who violates your privacy
and commits a crime like this.
Do you think this is enough of a payback
or do they deserve more?
- Um, part of me wants to say they deserve more.
I guess it makes sense that police have other stuff to worry about,
but this is just equally as important.
- What's he going to do, physically hurt them?
He can't do anything that bad because then he's a criminal himself,
so I think it's the perfect amount of revenge.
- Yes, I think it's enough payback as long as he turns that footage over
to detectives.
It seems like, oh, it's a big nothing, no one's gonna find the guy.
That might be true but it leads to a path of increasing patrol
in certain areas or building a case on somebody.
So it's very good to, you know, make those reports
and report those crimes.
- (FBE) So in 2017, a survey was conducted that showed
nearly one-third of Americans have had a package stolen
off of their front porches. - Wow.
I'm sort of shocked by that considering it's never happened to me.
- (FBE) And about half of Americans know someone who's had
a package stolen. - Yeah, it's crazy.
- (FBE) Have you ever had your package stolen
or know someone who has? - Luckily, it's never happened to me.
I'm that 50% who knows somebody else that had it happen.
- My package has been opened before but it was a little figurine.
They were like, "What the [bleep] is that?"
Just left it. They didn't want it.
- Oh, my gosh!
I am laying in bed Thanksgiving morning
at my parents' house up in northern California,
and my motion detector goes off.
I knew that somebody had dropped a package off
the night before and I'm like, oh, I know what's happening.
So I watched it live.
It wasn't like I came home and was like, "Oh, where's my packages?"
It was like, "UGH, GOD! I see you! You dick!"
- (FBE) Finally, we gotta ask you-- and you can be honest--
have you ever been tempted to steal someone's package from
their front porch? - No, because I don't know
what's going to be in it.
- No, because that's a pretty [bleep] thing to do.
It could be for their dying mother. It could be their medicine
that they need to live.
You have no idea what you're taking.
- No, never.
Not because I'm a nice person, but because I know people
like that will probably set me up, film me, and then it'll get
out in the universe, so no.
- I've had silly thoughts to myself, like, oh, wouldn't it be funny
if we just took a package, but I never did it.
I never did it.
I have a good moral compass.
But it never happened because I never even approached a box.
Never went that far.
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- Thanks for watching and stay away from my porch!
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