YouTuber pranks package thieves with glorious, stinky glitter bombs

The best idea yet for punishing package-swiping Grinches.
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YouTuber pranks package thieves with glorious, stinky glitter bombs
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Tis the season for a pile of packages on the front porch and the dastardly Grinches who pilfer them, so enter YouTuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober who went to great lengths to punish porch pirates nabbing boxes off doorsteps.

In the above video, Rober walks us through his problem (someone swiping his packages) and comes up with a brilliant solution (a magnificent glitter bomb). And, boy, does he go all in with his contraption, featuring multiple cell phones to record the action, GPS, lots and lots of glitter, and even fart spray.

What unfolds next is a glorious, probably real series of videos of would-be package thieves getting some glittery, stinky comeuppance, something that can surely make us all feel a bit warmer and cheerier this holiday season.

UPDATE: Dec. 21, 2018, 11:17 a.m. EST On Thursday morning, Rober posted a comment on the video on YouTube and tweeted that he had removed a small part of the video featuring two reactions that he said he had learned were staged.

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Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.


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