42 months. Really appreciate you X You really help my mental health and help my workday go by faster. Xcc stole my entire bowl of Halloween candy even though the sign clearly says take one. But what they don't realize is I've spent a year preparing for this exact situation because this year candy thieves will have to deal with booby traps such as Silly String full Siiz candy bars being swalled for two actual human hands to stop the thevery that just materialize out of nowhere and even some Hightech systems producing wanted posters of themselves.

So what what if not all over the neighborhood. Which means they get offered the healthy candy Bowl Every year in America kids dress up in costumes and knock on doors asking for candy. but in many cases if the homeowner is out trick-or-treating with their own young kids, they'll just leave a bowl of candy out and then rely on the honor System for everyone to take just one piece each. And since last year was my final year of making glitter bombs to catch a porch Pirates hello I felt it was time for me to graduate to the true criminals, the punk teenagers, and even sometimes terrible parents.

much who take all the candy from the Bulls so there's none left for any of the other little kids. So to come up with the perfect Revenge I Knew I need to enlist the help of the foremost expert when it comes to Halloween pranks we ate. Imagine being scolded by your child. Imagine imagine not being morally above your toddler dude candy.

Just the kind of person who would put out a challenge like this. We ate all your Halloween candy says you I'm not a parent I'm not a parent. Why you you say says you guys you guys that says you don't hit anymore like I used to. Okay, this cannot be a say you I don't have children Mr Jimmy Kimmel Jimmy What's up buddy Jimmy you are the I told my kids I ate their Halloween candy guy I'm the glitter bomb guy I Feel like if you combine those, we're going to prank kids who take more than one piece of candy Oh I Thought we were going to make kids eat a glitter bomb.

So we kicked off the brainstorm and quickly stumbled on some good ideas. Something like 10 times that average weight leaves the B devices in the candy itself. Li That's good or you just start rocking slow as well as some really good ideas. Breed monkeys.

Breed monkeys. get them real crazy, real crazy. Teach them to protect their candy. but what if they're just going to take one though? Well then we have a problem.

I Don't know. but in the end, like any pair of good Engineers would we ran some tests in the interest of child safety. you lost the head. Probably should make sure that doesn't happen in real life for sure.

at which point we had all the data we needed. It's important. It's this work that you're doing. Yeah, of course.

Which meant all we needed now was a 15-second fi montage. Chad is is like two. This like two nice And so in the end we landed at 10 different options to honor my traditional approach to engineering of bringing a cruise missile to a knife fight. A starting first by punishing greedy candy thieves with your standard run-of-the-mill remote triggered spinning candy ball.

This contraption also features a car horn and an RF enabled trapo with dual sweeping Silly String canisters that will leave the thief reconsider considering their life choices. Next up, we have the standard looking table with a catch because of the custombuilt weight sensor under the bowl. Power by microcontroller detects that too much weight is removed in too short amount of time. Well then it triggers this quick release which makes the hinged legs unstable meaning the candy Thief will think their actions cause the whole table to collapse and of course with safety always as our number one priority.

Those glass jars are actually sugar glass which look and behave like imagine some Little like walks under dude like he's like kind of distracted and his dad and the table just crushes him in a half dude glass butter. totally harmless and also as it turns out don't taste like sugar for this. Next one the thief will come to the door, steal the candy and then have no idea I'm about to scare the crud out of them. See if you can spot me here.

What about like a like a tripping device or like a like poison like no? no? I'm the M man. a Now if your first thought was that I was hiding as the Scarecrow last I'm just she surprised I'm just kidding because of the post from earlier. Dude, chill, that's by Design and the thief will think the same because this rocker crank linkage slowly rocks the chair back and forth. But then we've intentionally position the head to reveal its fake, loing them into a false sense of security.

So they steal the candy and meet. The Mulch Man Now of course, before they take the candy, I Can't see what's going on under there and a normal porch camera has way too much much delay. but it turns out a baby monitor is the perfect solution with almost zero latency. Next up, we have an actual human hand that somehow materializes out of a candy Bowl to stop any wouldbe thieves.

and we do this by taking a page from the Zach King Playbook by putting a full siiz mirror diagonally down the middle so it reflects a fake image, allowing me to hide under the table in ready position. Once again, the baby monitor comes in clutch here to help with the timing. Well, that's kind of crazy for this. Next one, we raise the stakes and drop them them right in the center of a candy theft sting operation with a couple cleverly concealed lights and a loudspeaker.

Go back and replace your candy, all your candy. And now with mission accomplished, the message Loop switches to entertainment mode. Now do all the fortnite dances. Now the remaining five ideas really level up the because they rely on multiple houses.

The first one where once the weight sensor detects the steel, the box containing a raspberry pie, takes a picture, runs a facial detection algorithm, then automatically crops the face and prints this template at a neighbor's house all within 10 seconds. Then once the door is answered, they now know that you now know and you switch from full-size candy bars to toothbrushes because I Honestly remember feeling so offended when the Neighborhood dentist would pass out toothbrushes instead of giving us the candy that was our god-given right now. This next one is pretty simple, yet effective because once you've confirmed a steel next door, they come to your porch and you place a specific set of candies in their back because one of the candies contains a simple remote triggered vibrating motor, while the other contains a small intercom. So we lead off with the buzzing and then once we've got their attention, we substitute for their misguided conscience: stop stealing all the candy from the little kid.

This next one's more in the realm of psychological warfare because we hide this ultrasonic speaker near these witches and then play some whisper sounds while the candy. Thief Waits At the door. Now with a normal speaker, you would still hear what is going on side of a perfectly soundproof barrier because the wavelengths we can hear are on average 30 ft long, which means the sound can defract around the barrier. But with an ultrasonic speaker, the wavelengths are really, really short which means they can't defract around, which makes them highly directional.

So the speaker's there I Hardly hear anything right here, but when I step to the left, it's just like in my brain. the camera here picks up on it a little bit, but it's just something you have to experience in real life to truly understand. This is so weird. Oh my.

God Now the Pen Ultimate Contraption is possibly my favorite cuz it sends the thief who steals all your neighbors candy on an emotional roller coaster because if you attach two candy blls to an axle, then link that via chain drive to a four power fully integrated brushless motor. Well then those two bulls will swap spots with each other at 85 mph. which means the thief gets real excited as they approach a bowl of fullsize. Mr Beast candy bars only to find 80 milliseconds later, it's a bowl of fullsize toothbrushes I Don't mind that Actually possibly the most intricate because once a theft is detected, the mailbox records a 10-sec clip which gets sent a few doors down and merged into a pre-recorded video clip.

So when the thief comes to at the door, this is what they see. Our Newsroom has just obtained some exclusive footage of more than one piece of candy being removed from a bowl that is clearly labeled please Take One Take A look at This video. Seems like a normal door approach. Oh there it is.

Wow, That is a clear violation of the please Take One sign and that's just a shame because every kid who now comes to the door won't have any candy left for them. If you're seeing this right now and you have any information about who these might be, feel fre to contact our tip line here at the station and while they stare in shock, you give them an opportunity to wash down their New Found Glory with a handful of broccoli floret. Now is all this Overkill just for some kids taking a little extra Halloween candy. Next we put up a random assortment of those 10 different Contraptions on 35 porches all across America and then set up a command center where we could monitor all the candy bowls in real time.

Which meant all we had to do now was wait for a ticket dark and while we do that, I should quickly mention if you love a good harmless prank as much as Jimmy and I then this is a magic coinbank. But when you try and figure it out by sliding the lid forward, you'll find it has built-in spider protection which Grandma's love and this is a trip wire you could place anywhere around your house to protect your stuff. An engineer visit Crunch Labs.com to learn more and as the sunlight continued to decrease, the eager tricker readers began to increase. which meant we now just had to wait for the punk kids or terrible parents to steal some candy.

The guy full y didn't have to wait long. Wello that looks kind of fake though. What is wrong with this guy? Okay, that okay, that just feels just straight up fakeer. Take one, take one hand, please take one.

Guess he's not taking one. Things started off strong with the car horn spinning ball combo and there was plenty more where that came from for anyone else taking more than in their fair share. But don't go sleeping on the Silly String Mr that's like the most nothing. Okay, that's not.

That's okay. I'll put that back now. I am all sprayed. That is pretty decent.

In fact, sometimes just the mere presence of the silly stream can is enough of a gentle reminder to share. Okay, oh my. God Now these kids raid the candy bowl next door which means n out of 10 dentists recommend we perform the toothbrush bull swap maneuver sh ah no. Glitter what the can you do a trick? You do any tricks? I'm going to try to take one quickly toothbrush.

Okay, this getting this kid cleared the candy bow at the Pr you got got a box full of conscience. Stop stealing all the candy for the little kid. this is your conscience by the way. can you hear me? She was real stoked with our candy selection Mr but less stoked with our audio selection.

Oh wait, did they y on on somebody else? After taking more than their share next door, these two minions didn't even make it to the porch sced. Jesus The mirror hand illusion also did not disappoint. Kind of a cool that some of these are like kind of scary but that's like the whole point of like Halloween chat People used to have this all the time. everywhere.

There's tricks that are scary everywhere but but not a as like a punishment. How did this work? That's the whole point of Halloween oh where's that hand coming from? Can I grab one? oh M no Mulch Man there it is. Oh no oh no hi kids I'm The Mulch Man notice the Scarecrow kick to confirm that he was in fact all alone. okay chat.

A lot of things annoy me about this video. If you already looked at the camera once, right? Why does he keep looking? Why is he like so like, sketched down and weird If he's going to go for a steal plus why is he so picky? He's yoinking I Mean you're going to want to go fast at least a certain amount of pace. Why is he picky? I Like rubbing a bank and filtering through the cash and you're like, nope, not fives. Nope, not ones, not tens.

like you didn't take more than you should, were you? You scared me? How much candy did you take I put some I I Actually give you some of my own. Yeah, that's right. Put it back. one more handful.

one hand. Okay, that is very cool. All right. now.

Get out of here. The mulch man's always watching. That scared the out of me. Why she only took two, only take one candy I Saw that relax.

It's not happiness that brings us gratitude. it's gratitude that brings us happiness. Thank you for taking this one. Thank you! This girl almost walked away accident free until she considered that.

The only thing better than one full-size candy bar was two fulls size candy bars. What? Okay, that's annoying. They broke it. Holy what my.

Actually I want go back and replace your candy. all your candy Now Show us your best fortnite dance. And finally, if these kids weren't so focused on taking more than their fair share, they might have noticed this oddly placed mailbox. TV Live Live! Take a look at this video.

Seems like a normal door approach. Okay, they're checking out the selection. How many one? Oh there it is. Wow.

That is a clear violation of the please Take one? sign. What is he talking about? You guys took more than that's why you're on the news. In my ongoing CH it's trick or treat and you're getting a really good trick though was to be the favorite uncle. It's kind of a reward I've tried quite a few things over the years who's your favorite uncle my name but now I finally discovered a much easier way so you too can be the favorite uncle or Aunt or even parent by simply GI that was okay.

the spinning bow going of suck though. I I think some of those were kind of kind of sucky. but I mean I get it? You don't want to, you know? I get it.