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    So, you have spent 9 years developing things that go into Space and one of the creations you helped to make is actually roving around Mars right now.

    What do you do when someone steals one of the deliveries off your front porch? Simple, you spend 6 months engineering the ultimate glitter bomb.

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    Re: Package thieves taught a lesson.

    Brilliant - love both the engineering and the idea behind it.
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    Re: Package thieves taught a lesson.

    thanks to whoever did the typo spelling change in the title

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    Re: Package thieves taught a lesson.

    Quote Originally Posted by Zak33 View Post
    thanks to whoever did the typo spelling change in the title
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    Re: Package thieves taught a lesson.

    Brilliant video and idea, and a great relaxed attitude, but this sort of theft is reprehensible. I understand the police have priorities, but it still feels unjust, and if this is so common, maybe a bit of a heavy focus on this sort of crime might to serve to deter it some. All that CCTV, surely some license plates and the videos could help catch some of these guys. Get people paranoid about this sort of trap and maybe people will be less likely to try it?

    Had the guy used a permanent dye instead of glitter I think he would have been justified.

    If these can be mass produced, people might well buy them.
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    Re: Package thieves taught a lesson.

    Brilliant idea and work. I just don't get why the faces of the criminal scum are blurred out? Don't blur them, let them threaten to sue, then find that they don't have a case at all!
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    Re: Package thieves taught a lesson.

    Quote Originally Posted by Galant View Post
    Brilliant video and idea, and a great relaxed attitude, but this sort of theft is reprehensible. I understand the police have priorities, but it still feels unjust, and if this is so common, maybe a bit of a heavy focus on this sort of crime might to serve to deter it some. All that CCTV, surely some license plates and the videos could help catch some of these guys. Get people paranoid about this sort of trap and maybe people will be less likely to try it?

    Had the guy used a permanent dye instead of glitter I think he would have been justified.

    If these can be mass produced, people might well buy them.
    not once they realise that if they wear a gasmask and open it in a fume cupboard they can net 4 smartphones. It only works when it's new and unfamiliar.

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    Re: Package thieves taught a lesson.

    Quote Originally Posted by badass View Post
    Brilliant idea and work. I just don't get why the faces of the criminal scum are blurred out? Don't blur them, let them threaten to sue, then find that they don't have a case at all!
    Apparently in America there are police doing something similar:

    https://wsvn.com/news/us-world/polic...ld-be-thieves/

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    Re: Package thieves taught a lesson.

    Quote Originally Posted by badass View Post
    Brilliant idea and work. I just don't get why the faces of the criminal scum are blurred out? Don't blur them, let them threaten to sue, then find that they don't have a case at all!
    because it's the US and if a vigilante takes it upon themself to dole out "justice" the video poster would probably get done for inciting violence etc or worse find himself labelled an accessory to a criminal act.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ik9000 View Post
    not once they realise that if they wear a gasmask and open it in a fume cupboard they can net 4 smartphones. It only works when it's new and unfamiliar.
    Fair enough - I did say mass produce those things. I guess my general point was to come up with something like this decoy in order to catch and, hopefully, start to deter this sort of crime.
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    Re: Package thieves taught a lesson.

    Quote Originally Posted by ik9000 View Post
    because it's the US and if a vigilante takes it upon themself to dole out "justice" the video poster would probably get done for inciting violence etc or worse find himself labelled an accessory to a criminal act.
    Indeed. Those stories come to mind of burglars suing homeowners for injuries incurred while breaking and entering.
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    Re: Package thieves taught a lesson.

    Quote Originally Posted by ik9000 View Post
    because it's the US and if a vigilante takes it upon themself to dole out "justice" the video poster would probably get done for inciting violence etc or worse find himself labelled an accessory to a criminal act.
    They probably wouldn't get charged, depending on the State or if the perpetrator/victim looks like Obama's son. But guaranteed they'd get a civil lawsuit. He might get sued anyway for glitter damage, given how viral the video is now. Yes, it's idiotic, but that's the US.

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    Re: Package thieves taught a lesson.

    Quote Originally Posted by Galant View Post
    Fair enough - I did say mass produce those things. I guess my general point was to come up with something like this decoy in order to catch and, hopefully, start to deter this sort of crime.
    He did say that just spreading the glitter could be done passively. A jack-in-the-box could eject the glitter into someone's eye and land you in court, a rubber band wound around a 3D printed cup so it spun the glitter out sideways is probably safer and pretty cheap.


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    Re: Package thieves taught a lesson.

    Quote Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix View Post
    He did say that just spreading the glitter could be done passively. A jack-in-the-box could eject the glitter into someone's eye and land you in court, a rubber band wound around a 3D printed cup so it spun the glitter out sideways is probably safer and pretty cheap.


    Now a box full of spiders...
    I was thinking a carefully designed paint-filled waterbomb, or a sack full of fire ants.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SUMMONER View Post
    So, you have spent 9 years developing things that go into Space and one of the creations you helped to make is actually roving around Mars right now.

    What do you do when someone steals one of the deliveries off your front porch? Simple, you spend 6 months engineering the ultimate glitter bomb.
    Superb, I wish I had a brain like that... I love the stink bomb aspect, to help recover the package... and it worked! (Not sure about the one that was dumped in the trash can though) He might be finding a use for his old mobiles, but as one discovers at the end, they might have been advertiser financed.

    I did note a police sting operation caught an Amazon delivery chap "collecting" other parcels, by using a far more basic GPS tracked parcel.

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    Re: Package thieves taught a lesson.

    Quote Originally Posted by raygdunn View Post
    I love the stink bomb aspect, to help recover the package... and it worked!
    I wonder if the last video where the chap is vacuuming around it is where he loses the device. I didn't hear the fart spray deploying, and the chap didn't seem in any hurry to get rid of it.

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