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Glitter Bomb 1.0 vs Porch Pirates

Mark Rober · demo · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

Mark Rober builds a glitter-bomb booby-trapped package to take revenge on porch pirates, filming the thieves' reactions. Some reactions were later acknowledged as partially staged.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Linked as the funny, famous porch-pirate revenge video whenever package theft comes up, with the faked-reactions caveat noted.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “watch the video on his YouTube. It's pure comedic gold.”

    Funny glitter bomb revenge on package thieves.

    ryanmercer, 2018-12 · Strong recommendation · in “Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves”

  2. “Obligatory links to YouTuber Mark Rober's quest for vengeance against porch pirates”

    First of a glitter bomb series against porch pirates.

    ubj, 2022-12 · Recommendation · in “Porch pirates stole 260M packages this year”

  3. “The "glitter bomb" series is pretty funny”

    Funny glitter bomb series against package thieves.

    mdaniel, 2024-10 · Recommendation · in “So thieves broke into your storage unit again”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: glitter bomb, porch pirates, mark rober, engineering prank

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