Glitter Bomb 1.0 vs Porch Pirates

Mark Rober · 95.3M views · 2018-12-17 · 8:11

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Overview

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.

On Hacker News

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

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2018–2024

Topics

Engineering & making (other)Documentaries & storytelling Law, policing & justice

What people said

ryanmercer · 2018-12 · Strong recommendation
>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. [VIDEO]
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mdaniel · 2024-10 · Recommendation
> There are some neat videos out there where people make their own The "glitter bomb" series is pretty funny: [VIDEO]
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ubj · 2022-12 · Recommendation
Obligatory links to YouTuber Mark Rober's quest for vengeance against porch pirates: * Glitter Bomb 1.0 vs Porch Pirates: [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]
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Video by Mark Rober, played through YouTube.

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