We have been protecting Mark Rober’s glitter bomb antics for a number of years now and his distinctive method to justice is all the time 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 another glitter bomb to focus on the automobile thieves of San Francisco.
If you have not heard, automobile break-ins are a very 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 automobile, smash open a window with software, snatch up any luggage or objects that look priceless, and drive off earlier than anybody can react. Their getaway autos are inclined to have stolen license plates, so video proof is not a lot assist. In accordance with native police, San Francisco averages greater than 50 of those thefts each single day.
Rober wished to battle that crime together with his legendary glitter justice, whereas additionally accumulating priceless knowledge that would forestall it sooner or later. To perform that, he and his group 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 motorbike tire inflator on the CO2 cartridge. It is a compact design, so that they had been capable of match a number of of them within the bomb to make sure that thieves obtained a superb dousing. A customized PCB controls the servo motors and has a built-in mobile LTE connection, so it might ship standing updates and obtain set off instructions. That glitter bomb matches into the bottom of a particular bait bag, which additionally has two smartphones to document video of the motion and supply GPS monitoring.
As in earlier years, the shenanigans brought on by the glitter bombs had been priceless. It seems that thieves do not prefer it after they get a pungent 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 particular constructing the place individuals go to fence a remarkably big selection of merchandise to unscrupulous clients.
After all, Rober cannot do a lot with that info on his personal. However he teamed up with a neighborhood investigative journalist who will help shine the sunshine on this prison exercise. On the very least, we get some nice leisure and perhaps thieves will suppose twice earlier than snatching luggage from San Francisco’s vehicles.