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YouTuber Unveils Glitter Bomb 2.0 With Help From Macaulay Culkin

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Porch pirate vs. glitter bomb 2.0. (Photo Credit: Mark Rober / YouTube)

Porch pirates, beware: Former NASA engineer Mark Rober is back with an improved glitter bomb that promises to get extra smelly revenge on thieves.

After falling victim to parcel pilfering last year—with no help from local police—Rober decided to take matters into his own hands by building the “glitter bomb.”

Disguised as an Apple Home Pod box, the trap showers unsuspecting recipients with fine glitter and fart spray.

But Rober’s viral video (and the threat of finding minuscule reflective particles on the floor for years to come) has done little to deter people from stealing parcels right off someone’s front stoop.

Enter glitter bomb 2.0 (sponsored by Bose).

The improved product was completed with a little help from the very child actor-turned-comedy website owner who inspired the original idea: Home Alone’s Macaulay Culkin.

“If the thieves took just two seconds to actually inspect the package, they would see that all the words on the side are just slightly modified quotes from Home Alone,” Rober said in a YouTube video.

Inside the branded box—fake Bose “Buzz700” headphones, named after Kevin McCallister’s older brother—is a streamlined system with a custom circuit board, GPS trackers, LTE-data smartphones with wide-angle cameras, biodegradable glitter, and a much more potent fart spray.

Ten volunteers around the country placed the parcel outside their door as bait, easily luring in larcenists looking for a high-end score. All the while, Rober watched the scenes play out from the comfort of his home computer.

Aside from the smooth criminal who caught on to the ruse once glitter began leaking out of the box, the prank worked as planned on several victims—including one dum-dum who tried gifting the “headphones” to his girlfriend.

Rober even tracked down several good Samaritans who tried returning packages to their rightful owner by giving them $400 in cash.

After the first glitter bomb video went viral, Rober revealed that some of the package “stealers” were acquaintances of the folks who volunteered to help.

“From the footage I received from the phones which intentionally only record at specific times, this wasn’t obvious to me,” he wrote last year, apologizing to viewers.

“I’m sorry for putting something up on my channel that was misleading,” he continued. “That is totally on me and I will take all necessary steps to make sure it won’t happen again.”

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