Mark Rober

Have you had a package stolen for your porch?

No.

Well, actually maybe, but I haven't known.

It's very, it's an American thing.

Apparently, apparently this doesn't happen a lot in other countries.

But you do really feel violated.

And this was like a $3, I don't even know what it was, something from Amazon.

It doesn't matter, right?

And at first, the police obviously won't do anything about it.

But then I was like, you know what?

Like I don't build the Mars Rover for heaven's sakes.

Like I could probably do something about this.

So I designed a bait package basically that had four phones in it that I could track the phone so I knew where the package went.

But they were also recording so it could upload that footage to the cloud.

So even if they destroyed the package, I would have footage of the theft.

But more importantly, when you lift it off the lid, it had a cup that used centrifugal force to spray like a pound of the world's finest glitter.

And then to make sure we got the package back after like two minutes, he'd spray just an uncharitable amount of fart spray.

So they were incentivized.

And then I played fake police chatter like, you know, we have a report of like, you know.

And so we always got the packages back, sometimes in better shape than others.