In nearly two decades in this game I have never been accused of supplying 'fake picks', genuine fakes or otherwise, and, rather than pointlessly argue with someone I told him to send them back and I'd refund him. I decided to write this blog last week, and by coincidence just yesterday I had a customer accuse me of sending him 'fake picks'. That is, a big plastic binding in which he wrapped his real leg to give the appearance it was a fake leg. These people - for whatever reasons, 'Body integrity dysphoria' it's called - want to be amputees, and after the NHS refused to remove his leg they came to a compromise, they gave him a fake artificial leg. I once watched a documentary on the BBC about a man who wanted his left leg removed, having seen an American man who took a shotgun to his leg so he could have it removed. Have you got any fake fakes? I want the real thing. I am reminded of a sign I once saw on a beach in Thailand above a market stall selling watches: 'Genuine Fakes' it proclaimed, with no sense of sarcasm or irony that I could see. What is real and what is fake, what is original and what is a copy - these ideas have been part of philosophical discourse since thought began, and occur frequently in our everyday lives.

And yet, having watched the re-edit video I was left asking myself, 'does it matter?' Whether they were real or not - that I was convinced provided me with the entertainment I was looking for. In fairness to Mark Rober, he re-edited the video and removed the 'fakes', making it clear he had no knowledge his friends had hired stooges to act as the thieves. Isn't it a funny old world in which we live? In an attempt to prank some dishonest people, some other dishonest people got involved and we ended up with something essentially fake. But they decided to help a little bit more than that, and not only planted the device, they also 'stole' it, so in fact, many of the reactions to the glitter and fart bomb exploding (there were several reactions in the video) turned out to be friends of friends. Mark asked some friends for their help - he wanted people happy to plant the device on their doorsteps. However, since the video was released all it appears was not all it seemed. And once they saw the telephones, the knowledge they would be exposed to a channel of nearly 6 million subscribers, their anonymity was for sure compromised. Having been the victim of having parcels stolen from my doorstep I was not only entertained to see the thieves covered in glitter and fart spray, but also to see them disappointed that the product of their selfish endeavors was nothing more than a prank on them a waste of their lazy, dishonest time. He installed a few old smartphones, allowing him to grab video from a variety of angles, an explosion of glitter to coat the thief in some ironic sparkle, and some fart spray, which as everyone knows smells nothing like farts, but very much like fart spray - a noxious nasal invader that frequently bought me to the edge of puke on many school trip where it seemed everyone stocked up on as much of the vile stuff their pocket money could buy, only to discharge the lot in the coach home.įart Spray - doesn't smell like farts, it's much worse. This is not to take anything away from Rober's creation. However, when I watched the video, even though Rober is an former NASA engineer, it all seemed to go a little bit too smooth, it was almost too perfect. That's exactly what Mark Rober did, a YouTuber with nearly 6 million subscribers, in an attempt to shower the thieves in glitter and fart spray.

If you load a package with glitter and fart spray, and set it to go off when opened, you have all the ingredients for not only a funny YouTube prank, but a small amount of revenge for those low-life types who steal deliveries from other people's front doors.

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