Maybe the box has a 'shrinkwrap' license agreeing to be recorded?
I mean, if instead of glitter and fart spray the thing was wired specifically to explode and kill the thief, the argument "they stole my explosives and blew themselves up" won't hold water.
I'm curious what a court would rule on this matter - anywhere from fart spray over property damage to death.
Apparently no-one told Kevin McCallister
The project bugs me a bit, as it's designed to find the 3% of people (IIRC from Rober's report) willing to steal and open an obvious fake package -- dumb kids, or mentally ill, or desperate and stupid.
Also, he's famous, so he's risking retaliation bombs.
There is no state that allows you to bug someone else's conversation. Intentionally causing a surveillance device to be installed in someone's home (which he clearly did) without their consent must present some legal issues?
Likewise, individuals are in some cases liable for the results traps they set. For example, the countdown (on the latest video) is troubling because it's reasonable to expect people to panic, and act erratically in response. What happens if they seriously injure themselves trying to escape the imagined bomb?
Someone else doing something illegal (stealing your "trap" package) doesn't protect you from prosecution or lawsuits.
Anyway, it would hear about the discussion with they had with lawyers before they did this. There's very little depth in many of the more recent videos. They're merely entertainment, not educational/engineering videos.