We have been overlaying Mark Rober’s glitter bomb antics for a number of years now and his distinctive method to justice is at all times an enormous hit. Sadly, Rober stated that his final glitter bomb was going to be the ultimate one. However it have to be a Festivus miracle, as a result of he constructed yet another glitter bomb to focus on the automotive thieves of San Francisco.
If you have not heard, automotive break-ins are a extremely widespread drawback within the metropolis of San Francisco. These are smash-and-grab jobs and the thieves are gone inside a matter of seconds. They usually drive as much as a parked automotive, smash open a window with software, snatch up any baggage or objects that look invaluable, and drive off earlier than anybody can react. Their getaway autos are likely to have stolen license plates, so video proof is not a lot assist. In keeping with native police, San Francisco averages greater than 50 of those thefts each single day.
Rober wished to combat that crime together with his legendary glitter justice, whereas additionally accumulating invaluable knowledge that might stop it sooner or later. To perform that, he and his crew redesigned the glitter bomb once more.
The brand new glitter bomb makes use of cartridges of compressed CO2 to eject ultra-fine glitter and fart spray. When triggered, the system turns a servo motor to open the valve of a motorcycle tire inflator on the CO2 cartridge. It is a compact design, in order that they had been capable of match a number of of them within the bomb to make sure that thieves obtained dousing. A customized PCB controls the servo motors and has a built-in mobile LTE connection, so it could actually ship standing updates and obtain set off instructions. That glitter bomb suits into the bottom of a particular bait bag, which additionally has two smartphones to report video of the motion and supply GPS monitoring.
As in earlier years, the shenanigans attributable to the glitter bombs had been priceless. It seems that thieves do not prefer it after they get a smelly mess as a substitute of free stuff. However this time, Rober was additionally capable of get some intel on the place thieves had been taking the stolen items. That led him to a selected constructing the place folks go to fence a remarkably wide selection of merchandise to unscrupulous prospects.
After all, Rober cannot do a lot with that info on his personal. However he teamed up with a neighborhood investigative journalist who may help shine the sunshine on this prison exercise. On the very least, we get some nice leisure and possibly thieves will assume twice earlier than snatching baggage from San Francisco’s automobiles.
