It appears (and I've since confirmed) inhese two cases, the 'theives' wer acuall acquaintacnes of the person helping me. To compensate them for their time and willingness to risk putting a package on their porch, I offered financial comensation for any successful recoveries of the package. He continues: "I was presented with information that caused me to doubt the veracity of 2 of the 5 reactions in the videoI put out a feeler for people willing to put a package on their porch and this person (who is a friend of a friend volunteered to help. On December 20th, Rober published an addendum to the video on as a comment on YouTube, stating that he "removed 1.5 minutes of footage from the video since originally uploading" after learning that two of the "thieves" were acquaintances of one of Rober's friends in the video, and therefore, willing participants in the prank. Additionally, when posted to the /r/Videos subreddit on December 17th, the video received more than 147,000 points (89% upvoted) and 10,000 comments in four days. The video quickly went viral, as media outlets picked up on the story, publishing pieces in The Washington Post, NBC, The Verge, Fast Company and more. ![]() Within four days, the video received more than 41 million views and 1.3 million upvotes (shown below). Rober states in the video that the glitter bomb was intended for people who had been stealing his and his friend's packages from outside their homes. Using four smartphones, the package would also record the detonation and the opener's reaction. The video shows Rober's engineering and execution of a glitter bomb disguised as a package that would detonate when opened. On December 17th, 2018, former NASA engineer Mark Rober uploaded the video "Package Thief vs. Mark Rober's Package Thief Glitter Bomb Video On January 22nd, The Guardian reported that the ShipYourEnemiesGlitter site had sold for $85,000 on the Flippa online marketplace. Within one week, the video gained over 2.7 million views and the Reddit post gathered upwards of 5,000 votes (89% upvoted). The following day, Redditor chillwithbill submitted the video to the /r/videos subreddit. On January 15th, YouTuber edamame uploaded footage of her father opening a spring-loaded glitter bomb tube sent from the website RuinDays. In January 2015, the website ShipYourEnemiesGlitter was launched, which mails glitter bombs to a specified address for a fee of $9.99. On March 18th, 2013, YouTuber Edward Lawrence uploaded footage of actress Lindsay Lohan being glitter bombed while arriving at a courthouse in Los Angeles, California (shown below, right). The activist was subsequently arrested and pleaded guilty to charges of "disturbing the peace" in April that year. On February 7th, he was glitter bombed a second time following a speech during the Colorado Primary (shown below, left). On February 1st, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was glitter bombed during a rally in Eagan, Minnesota. Over the next two months, Santorum was glitter bombed an additional three times. On January 21st, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum was glitter bombed at his primary headquarters in Charleston, South Carolina. Over the next three years, the video accumulated more than 2.7 million views and 11,300 comments. On January 5th, 2012, YouTuber SheyaSite uploaded footage of political activist Vermin Supreme at the "Lesser-Known Democratic Candidates Presidential Forum," where he glitter bombed Republican pro-life activist Randall Terry, claiming Jesus told him to "make Randall Terry gay" (shown below, left). ![]() ![]() That day, the Associated Press YouTube channel uploaded footage of the incident, receiving over 550,000 views and 4,100 comments in the next four years (shown below). The earliest known glitter bombing occurred on May 17th, 2011, when political activist Nick Espinosa dumped glitter on former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Newt Gingrich and his wife Callisata in protest of their opposition to same-sex marriage.
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