Do crackers have anything better to do than fantasizing about getting back at the hordes of criminals personally targeting their McMansion?
Do crackers have anything better to do than fantasizing about getting back at the hordes of criminals personally targeting their McMansion?
Going against the grain: people don’t steal candy bowls because of poverty. The majority of trick or treaters will live in the same neighborhood and therefore also live in McMansions.
The video is mostly for fun, being derivative of his larger series where he pranks porch pirates with glitter/stink bombs. Porch pirates affect everyone, not just McMansion grillpilled people, it happens in poorer neighborhoods too.
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. I’m sure there will be Hexbears who say “the Americans deserved it and the Indians needed the money more” but I don’t think scamming working class grandparents is the bleeding edge of revolutionary action.
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.I won’t argue that it is spectacle. It clearly is for entertainment purposes—basically justice porn without involving the police, excluding the call center case.
I never got the vibe he was specifically targeting minorities or even poor people. I mean yeah if you’re in poverty then you might be more likely to steal, but stealing from other people in your neighborhood (ie same class) makes everyone hate them. You might be onto something with him though, maybe a general NIMBYism, but I think many people can relate to the frustration of having their package stolen, and I struggle to equate that frustration with some sort of class warfare when it impacts everybody who shops online.
The goal is to make one particular person as miserable as possible, on camera
The mantra on Hexbear is that bullying works. People are group shamed in the comments here with the aim of forcing reflection on actions/opinions. It’s fair game as long as the misery is kept in proportion, which IMO is true for a glitter bomb.
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
even if I’m not financially impacted, I still care if someone steals my package. I think anyone would. It’s a hassle to get the merchant to rectify the situation, and sometimes that isn’t possible if the item was limited or sold out. That doesn’t even get to situations where someone really needs their package timely, like medication.
Looting from big box stores doesn’t bother me, but it’s not as harmless to take things from regular people’s doorsteps even if they might be made whole after arguing with customer support.
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
Its unfortunate to say but his content isn't fine, its excellent, hes a goddamn freak and he makes the good videos, I hate that I like them
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
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Just don't put out candy wtf
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.
the extra lazy pro move is to put out an empty bowl so it just looks like someone stole it all
There are cat food dispensers that do this
Many people put out bowls because they won't be at home though :/ Otherwise I'd just do this.
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.
aren't they supposed to knock on the door and ask for candy
Oftentimes, those people have kids and they're taking them out trick or treating, so they aren't home.
yes.
lmfao "candy thieves" this reads like a
The tragedy of the commons.
To be fair, hoarding a communal good for yourself is a dick move, especially if you're older. I encountered this as a little kid-- watching the teenage Goliath in front of me dump the whole bowl in his bag low-key broke me.
Youre a piece of shit if you booby trap a bowl though.
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This reminds me of those deeply fucked up boomer surveillance commercials I had to see in public recently that made it seem quirky and cute to take camera footage of trick-or-treaters to "collect memories."
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.because to
, crime is only something minorities do in the "inner cities" and not him doing in his good suburban neighborhood.
If you don't want all the candy stolen, hand it out a piece at a time. Everyone knows that if you leave it out, it's going to probably get stolen. In fact, there's a legal terminology that has been used to go after people who do these types of things, it's called an "attractive nuisance."
You don't get to create a situation that a reaosnable person knew would lead to theft and then act like you're not in the wrong. Same with shitty drivers, you tailgate someone and they slow down to stop to make a turn, you run into them, that's on you.
🧠 : going trick-or-treating
: Calling the cops on people for giving people free food on Halloween
I'm gonna be a total contrarian here and say it's just a harmless prank, a halloween tradition.
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Okay but if you actually steal the entire bowl of candy you are an asshole and deserve the prank. Any amount of dickish-ness from the prank is offset entirely by the dickish-ness of the person stealing the candy.
Doesn’t this guy stage the vids like this (and he also ran a fundraiser for a sham “autism AwArEnEsS” org too)
his kid is autistic so I really hope not...
Mark rober sucks and works with cops HOWEVER the compilation in this video was hilarious
My favorite was the kid who was instantly like "AIGHT im putting it back! puuuutiing it back!"
I just hate him because he always sounds like he's yelling, but now that I know he works with cops my hate is pure.
styropyro is also always yelling, but thats just because he's excited and also has hearing damage
and yeah, mark rober partnered with cops for his porch pirates videos
A better example would’ve been literally any of his package thief videos.
