Items tagged with Pranks

by Paul Lilly - Mon, Dec 16, 2019

Ex-NASA Engineer Returns To Ensnare Pathetic Porch Package Pirates With Glitter Bomb 2.0

A former NASA engineer who exacted revenge on thieves last year by booby-trapping seemingly innocuous packages of expensive electronics with an exploding mess of glitter is back at it again. His hilarious mission to gift porch pirates a serving of instant karma does not disappoint, at least for those of us who get to... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Sat, Dec 22, 2018

NASA Engineer Admits Parts Of Epic Glitter Fart Bomb Prank Were Fake

Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer who now spends his time making YouTube videos, recently emerged as an online hero of sorts for his masterful revenge plot against would-be porch thieves. In case you missed it, he concocted a glitter bomb disguised as an ordinary package so that unscrupulous pilferers would perhaps... Read more...

by Daniel A. Begun - Tue, Apr 28, 2009

Time Magazine's Top 100 Poll Hacked For the Lulz

In what some might consider the most visible Internet-based prank to date, frequenters of the 4chan image-based bulletin board site's "/b/ - Random" imageboard claim to have rigged Time Magazine's Top 100 online poll, so as to render 4chan's founder, "moot," the winner. And even though some fairly convincing circumstantial evidence points... Read more...