Have you ever purchased something online, the package arrives at your home; but someone steals it before you get home to bring it inside? Well, the former engineer of NASA, and current Youtuber , Mark Rober experienced just that. And he decided to take revenge with a glitter stink bomb. For what other reason would you use your NASA engineering superpowers?
Through his YouTube channel, Rober published the video of which is just over 11 minutes, in which he relates how his security cameras captured the moment when a pedestrian crossed the patio of his house; to steal a package that Amazon had left.
Rober went to the police and they dismissed the case as a minor theft. This angered this mad scientist and he began plotting out his revenge. He figured why not build not just a simple stink bomb, lets add glitter to it!
It took about six months of work to create this device. He set up a circuit around a cube; to which he connected four LG G5’s (better to use them in that than to throw them away). On top of that structure he placed a spinning machine with motion sensors.
Smartphones activated the GPS, set the video cameras to record everything and upload it to the cloud using Google Photos.
He connected the smartphones to the circuit to recharge his batteries without dismounting them. He filled the glitter machine; and as an extra feature he added a stinky spray.
So when the thieves opened the package the sensor would be activated in stages. To first would create the glitter explosion; and after that release the stink bomb. A deadly combo that would be recorded on video.
Rober took his creations, hid them in fake boxes that appeared to contain an Apple HomePod; and he left them outside his house and that of one of his friends who was a victim of the same type of theft.
The assembly was so well concealed that even the box had a shipping label. This type of contraption would have made Kevin McCallister; the protagonist of Home Alone proud.
The video documents the reactions of each of the thieves and they are everything. You can see women, adults, children and especially scoundrels suffering at the cost this piece of ingenuity. The GPS accurately detected the home of the thieves. But Rober protected their identities in the video that has gone viral.
The moral of the story is never steal. But above all, they never steal anything from a former NASA engineer.
