Saw something that actually pissed me off this Halloween. Walking around, there was this house of teenagers with their light on and a paper sign saying they weren't handing out candy. Okay, that's fine. But then their friend's car keeps speeding up and down the road, where they're literally just dumping people's bowls into their bags and bringing it into the house. These teenage assholes were essentially ruining trick or treating in the neighborhood because everybody's "take 1" bowl was being emptied for this house party where the only thing I heard at the door was "PICKLE RIIIICK". IDK, I just think it's a real dick move to purposefully try to steal every open bowl in the neighborhood for a house party of teenagers/adults acting like children. I got pissed when my kids came across 4 empty bowls in a row super early in the night. Like it's trying to ruin a holiday for kids. Don't mean to sound like a chud, but if people widespread can't even honor how something as relatively meaningless as the candy bowl is for everybody, how do we expect a society built on communal ownership and looking out for each other to work?

Yes, candy theft is that serious on Halloween. It is meaningless, but that's also like why would you take something meaningless from literal children. If you live in a neighborhood of mostly parents, stealing people's bowl is the equivalent of stealing Christmas from a bunch of kids. There are plenty of conversations to be had about Christmas, just like Halloween, but even if you steal from the richest houses in the area, stealing candy or Christmas gifts from kids is literally an idiom for a dick move, literally Grinch shit. Plus, it's "trick or treat". People love a good prank for Halloween. When someone's hand comes out of a bowl from seemingly nowhere on Halloween, it's cool special effects. As a kid, I'd still be willing to give some candy to someone else's bowl for a good trick instead of a treat, regardless of whether or not I was a thief.

This same guy also has a series where he helped bust a scam call center in India that was duping elderly Americans of their savings.

Was this the one where he once again deployed stink bombs to choke out an office full of people?

For some reason, all of these videos seem to have a theme. The goal is to make one particular person as miserable as possible, on camera. And the pretext always seems to be "who can I find that I can justify doing this to?"

It's all just spectacle. And the targets are, incidentally, almost always for some crazy reason.

Nah, stealing amazon packages is almost always a victimless crime. Amazon insures the packages which is why they are doing a psyop to make us care when they lose a small amount of monry

Yeah but in poorer neighborhoods you can use that to your advantage, my friend got a free xbox series x from Microsoft by claiming the first one they sent him got stolen off his porch then returning one of them

Yeah Mark Rober is a bit of a cringe lib but his content's fine. He only targets people who are being assholes and the ones who are being mild assholes only get a mild punishment. I mean the video in the OP is just about mild pranks, the kinds of things it would be acceptable to do to trick-or-treaters who hadn't even been jerks

Lmao. He once rigged a package to blow up a drink bomb after a random black guy picked it up. Turns out he was the landlord that the porch pirates rented from briefly then he called 911. Him being a landlord aside, it’s almost as if random vigilante justice is already dumb and poorly thought out and made dumber when it’s petty suburban nonsense.

I agree that package thieves deserve to have their asses kicked because they don’t have X-ray vision, but defending engineer brained retaliation is just goofy

The pro move is putting out some candy if you want to do a bowl thing, and just refill the bowl regularly so the "theft" isn't a big deal and there's plenty for all.

That doesn't work though. Like if I take my kids around the neighborhood and have them take everybody else's candy, it's kind of a dick move not to put out some candy for other children.

So many

So....creepshotting on families? Including children?

How tf does say he's tough on crime with a straight face, he sounds like a potential criminal himself? Worse yet, a criminal who commits crimes for the fun of doing something bad like he's an overgrown teenager.