My dear old dad always used to tell me that it’s not important who wins or loses, it’s how you play the game that counts.

This philosophy pervades my life. As a result, it really irks my spirit to see or experience someone doing something I feel to be mean or underhanded.

For example, I hate people who steal for worldly gain—both from other people and from companies (so-called “victimless crimes”)—and I loath people who steal from old people or from those who are cognitively challenged or in cognitive decline.

Although of less consequence on the scale of things, I remain unamused and unenthused by kids and adults who take more than their fair share of candy on Halloween, leaving the bowl bare for those who follow.

In my previous column—Rock, Paper, Scissors-Playing Robot That Never Loses—I introduced Mark Rober, who is the head engineer over at CrunchLabs (I would love to work at CrunchLabs when I grow up).

At that time, I didn’t realize that Mark was the hero behind the classic Exploding Glitter Bomb Version 4.0 vs. Package Thieves video.

Well, I just ran across another of Mark’s videos. In this thought-provoking Candy Thieves vs Rigged Candy Bowl offering, Mark teams with Jimmy Kimmel to devise a series of cunning consequences for wayward candy thieves.

On the one hand, these tricks wouldn’t be much use where I live because all the kids who have visited our house thus far have been candy conscientious. On the other hand, the classic “hand coming out of bowl” when you can see there’s no one under the table would certainly be good for a chuckle.