Glitterbomb 3.0 vs. Porch Pirates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4T_LlK1VE4

by ColinWright • 6 years ago

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Thev00d00• 6 years ago

These thieves got glitter on them!

Is this best we can hope for? Glittery vigilante vengeance?

Makes me sad for humanity.

5bolts• 6 years ago

its all staged anyway, its just fun to wish revenge on porch pirates...

ajford7• 6 years ago

Anything beyond that likely falls afoul with boobytrapping laws in many (if not all) states.

Rober even calls out that he attempted to report his porch pirate (with clear video) to the police, but they didn't take action.

Now, I'd love to see the US Postal Inspection Service take up this mantel by using their authority to take legal/criminal action against these porch pirates using bait packages like Rober uses. Seems quite similar to that of police running a sting with a bait car.

gumby2• 6 years ago

US Postal Inspection Service will only investigate if you know the parcel was sent by USPS.

Whether they will investigate at all, especially these days, is a separate question. There's been a lot of recent turmoil at the USPS.

lighttower• 6 years ago

Why are some of the faces of the thieves blurred but some aren't?

fransiscoli• 6 years ago

I was wondering that too..

rasz• 6 years ago

1.0 turned out to be Mark Rober paying his friends to arrange "theft". Make your own conclusions.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/12/21/viral-g...

jazzsax• 6 years ago

That's a pretty blatant mischaracterization.

He paid his friends (&friends of friends) to host the package, to compensate them for having to bring it in every night, charge it, and replace it. Unbeknownst to him, a friend-of-a-friend faked some of the thefts - I think potentially for additional compensation, but I'm not sure if that was the right motive.

I thought he handled it honestly and professionally - people noticed something off in the video, shared their data, he investigated, concluded what happened, edited the video to remove those thefts, and added an apology upfront.

https://twitter.com/markrober/status/1075767629703372800?lan...

ajford7• 6 years ago

I feel like characterizing it as Rober paying to arrange the theft is disingenuous. He stated that two of the five people he arranged to set out bait packages (and were compensated for setting out bait packages) had acquaintances "steal" them.

He came out and revealed this, as well as cutting the questionable footage from his video. That seems to me like an honest mistake and not intentionally misleading.

JosephRedfern• 6 years ago

Could it depend on the state where it was recorded? Do laws vary that way?

shaftway• 6 years ago

Age, most likely. He explicitly calls out one of the blurs as some teenagers. The rest look like they're younger from body shape too. All of the faces I saw were clearly over 18.

searealist4• 6 years ago

It's all staged.

Glitterbomb 3.0 vs. Porch Pirates

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