Ultimately, I am responsible for the content that goes on my channel and I should have done more here. I have since removed those reactions from the original video (originally 6:26– 7:59). From the footage I received from the phones which intentionally only record at specific times, this wasn’t clear to me. It appears (and I’ve since confirmed) in these two cases, the “thieves” were actually acquaintances of the person helping me. To compensate them for their time and willingness to risk putting a package on their porch I offered financial compensation for any successful recoveries of the package. I put a feeler out for people willing to put a package on their porch and this person (who is a friend of a friend) volunteered to help. These were reactions that were captured during a two week period while the device was at house 2 hours away from where I live. I was presented with information that caused me to doubt the veracity of 2 of the 5 reactions in the video. Rober issued a statement saying that those two cases were indeed staged – but says this happened without his knowledge. Imgur and Reddit were soon on the case, and Rober edited the video to remove two of the five incidents, explaining why in a comment. Peter Logan emailed Buzzfeed after noticing a number of suspicious factors. noticed some strange coincidences, like how one of the porch bandits seemed to live directly next door to Rober’s friend, Cici, and that the car used in one of the heists, a black Ford Focus with a rosary hanging on the mirror, was parked right in front of her house in Pittsburg, California.Īt first, Rober’s video made it seem like people were taking the packages off porches in Illinois, but later added a disclaimer to the video that this was not his actual house. The video was watched and enjoyed by tens of millions of people.īut it wasn’t long before the Internet started to question whether the footage was genuine or staged, as Buzzfeed reports. On-board LTE cameras captured video, and uploaded it to the cloud. When a thief opened the box, they and their surroundings were covered in glitter by an ingenious spinning funnel mechanism. More apt, I think, would be an indirect battery, as in DPP v K.A video showing package thieves being caught out by a glitter bomb in a HomePod box quickly went viral – but it’s now been revealed that some of the footage was staged …įormer NASA engineer Mark Rober plotted his revenge when a package was stolen from his doorstep, using a HomePod box as bait. (Would glitter give you a rash? I realise I don't actually know enough – if it did, it might be different.) If it goes in your eyes, or you swallow it, perhaps, but on the skin alone it's not unwholesome or obnoxious or objectionable – it's just annoying. While I love to stretch the definition of "noxious thing", however, I don't think it can include glitter when only administered like that. 69 of 2005) EWCA Crim 3050, 1 Cr App R (S) 130 (dousing with petrol and threatening to ignite). Other Useful Resourcesīringing a destructive or noxious thing in contact with the body, even if not ingested or injected, can indeed constitute administration: R v Gillard (1988) 87 Cr App R 189, 194: "In the view of this Court, the proper construction of 'administer' in section 24 includes conduct which not being the application of direct force to the victim nevertheless bring the noxious thing into contact with his body." See also R v Kennedy UKHL 38, 1 AC 269,, and Att-Gen's Ref (No. Read the full rules before participating. Woah, didn't know there was so much law /u/zesty_lemon45, LegalAdviceUK Rulesĭon't advertise your organisation, or refer people to a specific for-profit business It is very important to note that this subreddit does not replace a qualified Solicitor or other legal professional. We operate as a form of "legal triage" where commenters can guide posters towards an appropriate professional. LegalAdviceUK exists to provide help for those in need of legal support in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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