Dad Invades Son’s Privacy, Gets ‘Glitter-Bombed’
The lesson here is simple: If you open your kid’s mail, you may not like what you find.
In a YouTube video that’s received more than 1.6 million page views since it was posted on January 15 — which, fair warning, includes a few curse words — a boy found a clever way to punish his dad for invading his privacy. “My dad always reads my mail,” YouTube user Edemame explains in the video caption. So he decided to teach his father a lesson by mailing himself what he calls a “glitter bomb” – a spring-loaded tube of glitter that pops out upon opening.
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As expected, when the dad sees the tube addressed to his son, he doesn’t hesitate to open it. Immediately, purple glitter flies out and lands all over his computer keyboard, calculator and desk.
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Any parent who has ever allowed a glitter-related art project in their home knows that scrubbing the sparkly, colorful stuff out of hair and clothing is a pain, to say the least. Sand might be as bad – and that’s for sale, too, at RuinDays.com, the company that mailed the glitter bomb.
Glitter bombing, which first gained widespread press in 2011 when a gay rights activist used it as a form of political protest against Newt Gingrich at a book signing, has become an even more popular revenge method since the January 13th launch of the site Ship Your Enemies Glitter. The site became so popular so quickly that it briefly crashed and, after only 24 hours in existence, the owner put it up for sale. (Wannabe glitter moguls with more than $70,000 to spare can still bid on the business.)
Hey, dad: If you don’t start respecting your son’s privacy, expect a box of sand at your desk any minute. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.