FlusteredFerret Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 A former NASA engineer was tired of having parcels stolen from his porch, so he engineered a fiendish revenge plot... Cause nothing says "leave my stuff alone" like a face full of glitter and fart spray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthKadra Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 Six months designing this elaborate device to spray the thief with glitter. When it would have been so much easier and quicker to just catch the thief and kick seven shades of S#&$e out of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlusteredFerret Posted December 18, 2018 Author Share Posted December 18, 2018 (edited) 19 minutes ago, DarthKadra said: Six months designing this elaborate device to spray the thief with glitter. When it would have been so much easier and quicker to just catch the thief and kick seven shades of S#&$e out of him. Mmm...except you don't imagine science boffins kicking the crap out of anyone. They prefer to get their revenge at a distance. Plus you can't stay home all day and watch for people trying to nick your stuff. PLUS making a mess all over people (and their cars, furniture etc.) and stinking up the place is just more sophisticated than brute force IMO. Edited December 18, 2018 by FlusteredFerret Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legion-Shields Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 37 minutes ago, DarthKadra said: Six months designing this elaborate device to spray the thief with glitter. When it would have been so much easier and quicker to just catch the thief and kick seven shades of S#&$e out of him. Maybe he had fun designing it and putting it together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeMonkey Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 32 minutes ago, FlusteredFerret said: Mmm...except you don't imagine science boffins kicking the crap out of anyone. They prefer to get their revenge at a distance. Plus you can't stay home all day and watch for people trying to nick your stuff. PLUS making a mess all over people (and their cars, furniture etc.) and stinking up the place is just more sophisticated than brute force IMO. The content needs to be family friendly as well, because Youtube. Otherwise I'm fully on board with the physical violence option, and/or replacing the fart spray with pepper spray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlusteredFerret Posted December 18, 2018 Author Share Posted December 18, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, DeMonkey said: The content needs to be family friendly as well, because Youtube. Otherwise I'm fully on board with the physical violence option, and/or replacing the fart spray with pepper spray. Or replacing the glitter with liquefied dog poop... Edited December 18, 2018 by FlusteredFerret Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthKadra Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 1 hour ago, FlusteredFerret said: Plus you can't stay home all day and watch for people trying to nick your stuff Dude, he spent six months building his silly device. He could have caught a dozen thieves in that period if he wanted to just by sitting in the bushes on a few mornings with a bait box on the porch. Or if he wanted to go the tech way he could have designed and assembled something much more effective in a couple of days from things that already exist. Instead he created some over-sophisticated and expensive BS device the effectiveness of which tends to zero and he spent half a year on it. But he made a youtube video about his genius device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeMonkey Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 1 hour ago, DarthKadra said: But he made a youtube video about his genius device. He made both the YouTube video and the device as a bit of fun. No need to be such a buzzkill... Jeez. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rune_me Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 1 hour ago, DarthKadra said: Dude, he spent six months building his silly device. He could have caught a dozen thieves in that period if he wanted to just by sitting in the bushes on a few mornings with a bait box on the porch. Or if he wanted to go the tech way he could have designed and assembled something much more effective in a couple of days from things that already exist. Instead he created some over-sophisticated and expensive BS device the effectiveness of which tends to zero and he spent half a year on it. But he made a youtube video about his genius device. A YouTube video that has over 11 million views in the first 48 hours of it's release. And has grown his subscriber count with about half a million. Pretty sure that was time and money well spent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthKadra Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 12 hours ago, rune_me said: A YouTube video that has over 11 million views in the first 48 hours of it's release. And has grown his subscriber count with about half a million. Pretty sure that was time and money well spent. Yep. My point exactly, he was never trying to punish or catch any thieves. I very much doubt they existed in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeMonkey Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 14 minutes ago, DarthKadra said: Yep. My point exactly, he was never trying to punish or catch any thieves. I very much doubt they existed in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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