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Creator of viral glitter bomb video admits parts of it were staged
This week, it seemed the entire Internet rejoiced after a former NASA engineer created a custom glitter bomb designed to strike back against package thieves. His impressive invention resulted in a hilarious video of would-be criminals being coated in glitter and having their nostrils assaulted with a fart spray. But it seems the clip, which racked up more than 42 million views in just a few days, was a little too good to be true -- its creator admits parts of it were staged, seemingly without his knowledge.
Mark Rober cut around 90 seconds from the video and reuploaded it to remove a segment in which a friend of a friend borrowed the device. As it turns out, that person recruited their own friends to pose as victims. Rober apologized for the ruse.
"Ultimately, I am responsible for the content that goes on my channel and I should have done more here," he wrote in an apology tweet. "I can vouch that the reactions were genuine when the package was taken from my house."
Previously: Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves
(Score: 4, Informative) by sjames on Sunday December 23 2018, @06:31PM (6 children)
Read it again! SOME of it was staged, a fact not known by the person who put the video up. He's now removed those bits in the spirit of truth.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday December 23 2018, @08:07PM (5 children)
I'm sure the staging was deliberate: Package theft is a HUGE problem in my neighborhood and I see the security cam videos my neighbors post -- and guess what the package thieves all have in common? Guess what physical trait is easy to identify consistently even in grainy security cam footage?
While I will leave it up to you to figure out the answer, it would make sense that our hipster cocksucker (who, if he wasn't such a pussy, would have rigged his contraption with pepper-spray or sodium hydroxide rather than fucking fart spray) and his SJW friends wouldn't want to post a video showing everybody the sad truth regarding who really steals those packages.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 23 2018, @09:49PM
I'm going out on a limb here but I'm going to guess "thieves" might be the word you're looking for. Anything else would be stupid.
(Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Sunday December 23 2018, @10:25PM
A human shape.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 23 2018, @10:48PM
Rhymes with "Barack Obama"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 24 2018, @06:50AM (1 child)
They are black?
In a recent news article it showed a still of a repeat parcel thief. A white woman.
Pictures please.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 24 2018, @06:52AM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6477297/Motorcyclist-rides-womans-house-steal-parcel-doorstep.html [dailymail.co.uk]
white people stealing from white people