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Video screenshot via Mark Rober
There’s no politer way to say, “F*** you,” than with a heck ton of glitter sent an enemy’s way, which was exactly what former NASA engineer Mark Rober had done to get back at package thieves.
In a video experiment gone viral, Rober had hidden a glitter bomb, which was six months in the making, in an Apple HomePod box. The hassle of cleaning off glitter might already be overkill for thieves, but the ruse was also accompanied with a “fart spray” and four LTE cameras so the sender could revel at someone else’s pain.
Rober duplicated the faux parcel in case his friends could have their revenge on such pilferers. In exchange for their “time and willingness,” Rober had offered financial compensations for “successful deliveries.”
Unfortunately, not all that glitters is internet gold. Social media users spotted a few discrepancies in the footage insinuating that at least part of it was staged; there’s also a rather confusing Imgur thread comprising screenshots of snippets in the video that don’t add up.
Upon being questioned, Rober admitted that two pranks in the video were fake—one of the friends he approached had enlisted some acquaintances to pretend to be package thieves.
“It appears in these two cases, the ‘thieves’ were actually acquaintances of the person helping me,” he revealed in a lengthy apology posted on Twitter.
“From the footage I received from the phones which only record at specific times, this wasn’t clear to me.”
Rober has since deleted the two reactions (originally 06:26 to 07:59) from the footage, but has reuploaded the erased bits on a separate YouTube video. Apparently, YouTube lets you wipe out parts of videos without touching visitor counts—which is a sigh of relief, as the stunt has garnered nearly 48 million views at time of publish.
Rober disclaimed that he’d hoped the two scenes would not lead to the video being branded as a hoax.
“I’m especially gutted because so much thought, time, money and effort went into building the device and I hope this doesn’t just taint the entire effort as ‘fake.’”
You can watch the deleted footage, which took up about a minute of the original video, below.
I posted this as a comment response to my recent viral tweet/video but I’m posting it as a new tweet as well: pic.twitter.com/g2VHsQWh1z
— Mark Rober (@MarkRober) December 20, 2018
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