Thursday, December 20, 2018

90% satisfaction

Package pirates are a growing problem in the United States. Just go to YouTube and type "package pirate" or "package thief/thieves" into the search window, and you'll see the extent of the problem.* YouTube also has plenty of videos showing people's clever methods of revenge against these lowlifes, and one of those videos comes from science guy Mark Rober, who apparently lives in a neighborhood that's full of package thieves. Rober, an engineer with a penchant for inventing things, decided to strike back at the thieves by designing a sort of harmless "bomb" that would shoot glitter, emit fart spray, and record the thieves via several cell phones. Here is his story:


I titled this post "90% satisfaction" because, for me, true justice—100% satisfaction—would mean turning those packages into fucking fragmentation grenades so that these butt-suckers would have something to remember me by for life.



*A close cousin of the package pirate/thief is the asshole who trespasses in order to uproot your "Trump 2020" yard sign, which is like a magnet to these stupid twats. I love the vids in which clever homeowners have managed to electrify their signs. Zot! Surprise, fuckhead!



2 comments:

John from Daejeon said...

According to CNN, it seems that these were staged and not real after all.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/22/us/glitter-bomb-creator-staged-video-footage-trnd/index.html
Package thieves ambushed by an engineer's 'glitter bombs' were not all real robbers, he admits

Here's the real deal though and a few videos of his box in action.

Kevin Kim said...

Yeah, I saw something about that in the comments.