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Glitter Bomb 1.0 vs Porch Pirates
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
Linked as the funny, famous porch-pirate revenge video whenever package theft comes up, with the faked-reactions caveat noted.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Mark Rober
- Topic
- package theft prank
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 11
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
>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]
ryanmercer on Hacker News · 2018-12
In Glitter bomb tricks parcel thievesObligatory 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] …
ubj on Hacker News · 2022-12
In Porch pirates stole 260M packages this year> There are some neat videos out there where people make their own The "glitter bomb" series is pretty funny: [VIDEO]
mdaniel on Hacker News · 2024-10
In So thieves broke into your storage unit again
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.