But what he doesn't know is this is a custom-built bait package that is recording him on four different cameras

And it's about to unleash a pound of the world's finest glitter along with some other surprises.

But to understand how he got to this point first. We need to rewind a bit.

About seven months ago, I noticed a package being reported as delivered but it never arrived.

So when I checked our security cameras, I noticed this lovely couple out for a stroll.

As you can see, they have backpacks on and they're just going around the neighborhood

making an afternoon out of this.

If you ever been in a situation like this,

you just sort of feel violated. And then I took this to the police and even with the video evidence,

they said it's just not worth their time to look into - so then you also feel powerless and I just felt like

something needs to be done to take a stand against dishonest punks like this. And then I was like: hold up,

I built a dartboard that moves to get a bulls-eye every time. I spent nine years designing hardware that's currently roving around on another freaking

planet. if anyone was going to make a revenge bait package and over-engineer the crap out of it,

it was going to be me.

So I started with a sketch and some CAD and then I hit up my buddy Sean who is really good with this type of

small electronic stuff, and we got to work. Ultimately, when they open the package

I just wanted to celebrate their choice of profession with a cloud of glitter because, I mean, who doesn't love glitter?

That's easy. I could just do that passively with like a spring when it opens

But I also wanted to record their reaction and that's what makes the engineering here an order of magnitude more

difficult because if you think about it

This thing has to sit on a porch all day and it can't be plugged in and you have no idea when someone will come

And pick this up

so it's not like you could just hit record on the camera and then put it in the box because you're gonna run out of

battery and storage space on top of that

I need some way to recover this footage in case I never get the big package back so after six months and lots of design

Iterations and so much testing here's where we landed

This custom printed circuit board is the brains of the operation

It has a built-in accelerometer

And when it's jostle that will check the GPS signal to see if it's been moved from the porch

and if so

It sends a signal to all the phones to wake up and start recording and I'm using four phones that have a wide-angle

Filming mode and are angled back and this 3d printed portion is contoured this way because it represents the field of view of the phones

So as you can see

I'm guaranteed to capture their reaction no matter which way they open it from and nestled in here

We've got a can of fart spray. No joke, you can clear a room with one spray of this stuff

so we made a cam on a small motor that sprays it five times and not only is this just a nice touch but we

Keep repeating five sprays every 30 seconds until they throw the package out of their car or house

Before they realize there's four phones inside this

Increases our chances of finding it because we always know the package location at all times due to the GPS on the phones

But even if we don't recover it all four phones have LTE data plans

So they upload the footage to the cloud so I can still see what happened

And then for the pièce de résistance we have a cup here on top that spins from a motor underneath

So once you load in a but ton of the world's finest glitter the motor spins really fast and the centrifugal force

Fires it evenly in all directions. Let me cut holes on the side of the lid and cover them with one-way film

so two of the cameras can see them as they walked away and then finally to make it look like an actual delivered package we

Added some shrink wrap and a delivery label

Which is perhaps my favorite part of the whole thing because if the thief wasn't in such a hurry

They'd see that the package is actually coming from my childhood hero and inspiration for this project Kevin McCallister. I

Even looked up and amusing the address of the actual house

They filmed the movie in and of course it's being shipped to his boys

Harry and Marv and there's a charge port in the bottom because if it doesn't get stolen in a given day I can bring it

In and then recharge all the batteries in the system overnight

So the idea is the bad guy comes and takes it off your porch then lifts the lid and these two limit switches

Tell the circuit board brain inside that the lids been removed

and then that sets everything in motion and I may be biased but sometimes a well engineered design is

beautiful

And because the phones have GPS we created a virtual geo fence around my house

So I get a notification when the package has been moved off the property

So I put it out on the porch and now all that was left to do was wait

Okay, so I was at work and I got a notification that the Geo fence we set up had been tripped

So then I checked the cameras and sure enough. The package is gone

So I checked the GPS and sort of tracked it and it appears there in a car because they seem to leave my house

Pretty quickly, but it seems to have stopped in a parking garage

Which is where I'm headed to now and if you're new here, this isn't a prank channel

So I am completely out of my comfort zone

And there she is

This is like recovering the black box of a crashed airplane it would still work

even if I didn't get the box back that footage would upload to the cloud but it's just faster to plug the phones in so

I'm gonna go home and find out how this

Somehow ended up here. So it appears he was walking down the sidewalk and then suddenly makes a hard left

Then he takes the package and gets in his car and eventually makes it to this parking garage where this glorious sequence unfolds

My car dude everything oh my god

My friend Cece has also had some packages stolen so she has to leave it on her porch for a few days to

So the moral of the story is just don't take other people's stuff

Not only is it not cool, but on the plus side, you'll never find yourself in this situation or perhaps even worse this one

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