Glitter Bomb 1.0 vs Porch Pirates
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.
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.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2018 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec ryanmercer · 2018-12 · on “Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves”
>I don't even know what this Mark person did, but going by comments here, Oh man, watch the video on his YouTube. It's pure comedic gold. [this video]
Recommends ubj · 2022-12 · on “Porch pirates stole 260M packages this year”
Obligatory links to YouTuber Mark Rober's quest for vengeance against porch pirates: * Glitter Bomb 1.0 vs Porch Pirates: [this video] * Glitter Bomb 2.0 vs Porch Pirates: [LINK] * Glitter Bomb 3.0 vs Porch Pirates: [LINK] * Exploding Glitter Bomb 4.0 vs Package Thieves: [LINK] * Car Thieves vs the Final Glitter Bomb 5.0: [LINK]
Recommends mdaniel · 2024-10 · on “So thieves broke into your storage unit again”
> There are some neat videos out there where people make their own The "glitter bomb" series is pretty funny: [this video]
Cites rjf72 · 2018-12 · on “Amazon driver arrested after taking GPS 'bait' package off Washington Co. porch”
If you haven't seen the exact video he's referencing it's here [1]. It certainly was nothing like just "fuzzy phone video". He had 360 degree video with fine detail clearly showing the thieves' faces up close, vehicles, and so on. His bait package also had GPS and several of the thieves took the packages home to open them. You can't have more condemning evidence. But this all begs the question. I expect that those thieves were indeed arrested, unlike the ones he caught on his home surveillance system stealing packages where indeed it was just some video snippets of the thieves taken from cameras several meters away. [1] - [this video]
Cites sah2ed · 2018-12 · on “What Is Glitter?”
You are being over-dramatic. He clearly mentions Sean and even includes a couple of frames in the video of Sean working on the device's PCB. Start here: [this video]
Cites gxon · 2019-12 · on “Thieves Are Using Bluetooth to Target Vehicle Break-Ins”
Is an unconfirmed sense of schadenfreude really worth losing more money for a theft? Maybe it's worth it if the device is also streaming video so you can share the experience with the world, e.g. [this video] Also, it's probably more likely that the device gets triggered accidentally than it is likely to get stolen.
Cites bigiain · 2019-12 · on “Thieves Are Using Bluetooth to Target Vehicle Break-Ins”
Reminds me of the NASA guy who built a glitter bomb and filmed people who stole packages from doorsteps: [this video]
Cites nikk1 · 2020-01 · on “Who’s Watching Your Porch?”
There is a youtube video out where someone created a decoy package and left it on their porch until someone stole it. The theif opened the package only for it to explode glitter everywhere. [this video]