Former NASA Engineer Takes His Revenge On Thieves With Glitter Box

It can be so infuriating when your package is stolen right from your front door. But Mark Rober, a former engineer at NASA found a way to take his revenge.

After the police failed to help, the man created a fake Apple HomePod delivery to trick package thieves, taking him half a year. As in Rober’s YouTube video, the fake package worked excellently, displaying colorful results.

Mark Rober and his fake Apple HomePod blasting

Shortly after thieves opened the box, a motorized tub blasted glitter all around and on the thieves. Next, the package will spray fart gas, causing some thieves to throw away the package.

Additionally, there is an accelerometer attached inside that sent Rober the GPS signal, helping him trace the package. The best part is that the whole event was recorded by a camera phone quad setup, the videos went to the cloud so that Rober could watch the playback unless he recovered the box.

On Tuesday, “Package Thief vs. Glitter Bomb Trap,” the video recapping the results if Rober’s fake package went viral and ranked 1st on YouTube trending list. The video was 11 minutes long, summarizing the entire process of how Rober came up with the idea, how he made the box, how it got stolen, what happened to the thieves, and how they reacted.

After the box released glitter and fart gas, as you can hear in the clip, the thief and his friend freaked out. And the thief's friend said that he shouldn't have taken the parcel. Yeah, keep that thought for the next time you see a delivered package.

Package theft has got more and more common as people are shopping online more and more. According to a 2017 survey by Comcast Xfinity Home, package theft happened to 30 percent of US people. Plus, over 50 percent of Americans know somebody whose package got stolen.

Rober’s revenge using glitter box is hilarious, but there’re other options for you to avoid thieves. Some less fun choices include security cameras, delivery alerts service, or Amazon key – the combination of a security camera and a smart lock letting delivery workers put the package inside your house.