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Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves

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Re: Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves

#41

i dunno, 4 free iphones is probably worth dealing with glitter and fart spray for a few minutes?

Watch the video. The phones are hidden, and the fart spray is designed to make the thief get rid of the package as quickly as possible rather than taking it apart to see what might be inside.

Re: Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves

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Do you think the bomb maker could be held liable if the package were to be opened in a moving car that subsequently crashed because of glitter getting in the driver's eyes? I'd be a little nervous about doing this myself.

IANAL, but is that seriously a legal risk? The guy would have to explain he stole it.

Booby traps are illegal and this feels like a booby trap.

https://definitions.uslegal.com/b/booby-traps/

Re: Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves

#43
I would like people to stop doing this childish nonsense. There is a guy who does "Operation Krampus" every year and brags about putting gifts out filled with cat shit. And people think he's so funny and cool. Thing is, he could be spending his time doing something uplifting and productive instead of being a low-life asshole himself.

It's not funny, first of all. It's childish. It isn't in keeping with the spirit of the holidays. The holidays are about giving, not being assholes to the less fortunate. Thieves deserve what they get, but seriously, if you were looking at how to spend your time over the holidays, why not volunteer or donate and forget about the lowlifes? They are punished enough just by living, and no childish bullshit is going to deter them from their behavior. Set a good example for others this holiday season and don't give in to childish pranks that just further tear down our society.

Re: Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves

#45

I'm honestly really shocked by how casually people seem to steal these parcels, like what the hell?

And many of those people were driving pretty nice cars! It wasn't exactly the homeless stealing packages to feed their family.

homeless are generally not thieves as if they could steal they wouldn't be homeless in the first place

Re: Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves

#47

I've had fantasies of much worse punishments for package thieves, like a paint gun sentinel. I'd buy this if he'd manufacture it.

Personally, if I could legally, morally and practically, I'd probably use chemical deterrents like cadaverine or butter acid (though the later is possibly dangerous).

Dump 100mg of cadaverine in the thiefs car and they'll never use that car again. And possibly the clothes they wore at the time.

Or other chemicals.

It would be most exciting to find chemicals that yield strongest short-term effects without any damaging long term effects.

Re: Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves

#48
post #17
post #9

Do you think the bomb maker could be held liable if the package were to be opened in a moving car that subsequently crashed because of glitter getting in the driver's eyes? I'd be a little nervous about doing this myself.

IANAL, but is that seriously a legal risk? The guy would have to explain he stole it.

If being on your phone is bad, opening a package in a moving vehicle is probably worse

Re: Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves

#49

Anyone else found it unsatisfactory that there was nothing about forwarding the footage of the thieves to the police?

The article mentions that he built this in the first place because the police told him that there was nothing they could do even with footage

They couldn't do anything with the footage of them taking it from the front porch. But with close up footage of their face and GPS coordinates of some of their houses it seems like a different story.

Re: Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves

#50

The video is well worth your time. The device works very well, and the fart spray has a purpose, in that it encourages the thief to ditch the package as soon as possible, enabling him to recover and reload it.

No it's not. Stop, just stop. Think about the holidays and why we have them. Put some extra cash in the Salvation Army pot, give some toys to the Marines for Toys for Tots. Do something positive.

There's a reason why materialism is bad.

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