![]() ![]() Mark Rober, who worked for seven years on NASA’s Mars rover, Curiosity, decided to create the glitter bomb after his home security cameras captured thieves making off with a package from his doorstep in California. In 2018 a former NASA engineer created an elaborate glitter-spray bomb to play a prank on package thieves. Other less harmful pranks are of course allowed on YouTube. It didn’t and Ruiz was killed, while Perez sent to prison for six months for the shooting. ![]() Monalisa Perez, then aged 19, shot at her boyfriend, Pedro Ruiz, through a thick book, which he believed would stop a bullet. That YouTube ban came after a number of high-profile incidents, including a fatal stunt in 2017 involving two YouTubers. Threats with weapons and fake robberies are specifically listed as offences that would result in the video being taken down. Read also : YouTube To Remove False Cancer Treatment Claims YouTube itself banned dangerous or threatening pranks two years ago. Whilst these ‘prank’ videos can gain millions of views, the BBC reported that many of them are faked, with all participants being “in” on the video and acting their part. Robbery “prank videos” are relatively common on YouTube it is reported, sometimes involving fake firearms, balaclavas or getaway vehicles. The friend of Wilks’s told police officers the “prank” had been for a YouTube video. The BBC reported that 20-year-old Timothy Wilks and a friend had approached a group of people outside a family trampoline park in Nashville, America.Īccording to witnesses, the two men were allegedly holding large knives as part of a “prank” robbery.īut it seems that no-one opted to tell the group of people that it was a ‘prank’, and Wilks was shot by a 23-year-old, who told police he had had no idea it had been a “prank” and had been acting in self-defence. A prank video for Google’s YouTube streaming platform has resulted in a young man being shot to death. ![]()
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