Posted on 12/18/2018 12:05:39 AM PST by lowbridge
You really shouldnt steal from Mark Rober. I mean, you shouldnt steal from anyone, but you REALLY shouldnt steal Mark Robers mail.
The engineer and YouTube star really knows his stuff - he literally helped design the Mars Rover. But when Rober realized people were stealing his packages (he caught the thieves on his home video) he was stumped.
In a video that has immediately gone viral, Rober says he reported the crime to the local police who said they simply didnt have time investigate the incident, even though Rober had done much of the heavy lifting by capturing the incident on his home surveillance camera.
Rather than go full vigilante, Rober did something far more brilliant: He built a custom made glitter bomb inside a fake Amazon package.
The package also included four Internet cameras, so he could capture the whole thing on film. Oh, and he also loaded it with fart spray.
(Excerpt) Read more at upworthy.com ...
Not in the home security system ads...
It’s the first time I have heard that glitter can cause blindness and it was mentioned in this thread twice. If glitter is so dangerous, why do I remember using it in school as a kid for school projects?
The lawyer might even make the case that this “booby trap” was set because the “perp” was racially motivated and set it to target those of darker skin.
If you go back and look at the video today...it has been edited. They removed most or all the black culprits, only leaving the ones you couldn’t see because the box didn’t get lifted off all the way.
I wasn’t watching it to pinpoint the race of the perps, but the majority were black, and they were all cut out for the most part.
I wonder who pressured him to do it. If he works for NASA, it could have been them. Or it could have been YouTube. Or his friends.
It’s too bad. they cut out the best ones.
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