PASADENA, CA — Some S0Cal Grinches got a healthy dose of comeuppance this Christmas, thanks to a former NASA engineer who designed the ultimate revenge for porch pirates.
Naturally, it took a rocket scientist to come up with just the right formula: glitter bomb + fart bombs = sweet, sweet revenge.
But for Mark Rober, who worked on the Mars rover for the San Gabriel Valley’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it wasn’t enough just to beat the package thieves at their own game. He had to track them with GPS and capture the explosions on camera. The results are glorious.
The repeated victim of package theft, Rober decided to do something about it after police told him not to hold out hope for an arrest even with surveillance footage of the thieves caught red-handed.
“Something needs to be done to take a stance against dishonest punks like this,” Rober said in a video posted to YouTube.
“I spent nine years devising hardware that’s currently roving around on another freaking planet,” he tells viewers. “If anyone was going to make a revenge bait package and over-engineer the crap out of it, it was going to be me.”
So Rober addressed his package to his hero (Macaulay Culkin’s character in “Home Alone”) and rigs his stinky glitter bombs with cell phones that will both track the package and record the the reactions of startled thieves.
It works so well, he lent the device out to friends, and the result is an endless reel of would-be thieves glitter- and fart-bombed inside their cars and homes. Within two days, the YouTube video garnered nearly 30 million views.
As it turns out, justice is the sound of porch pirates shouting, “What is that smell?”
Photo: YouTube Screengrab
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