Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxx!ignatz From: ignatz@ihuxx.UUCP Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Protection from b&e or theft? Message-ID: <455@ihuxx.UUCP> Date: Sat, 25-Jun-83 22:21:29 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxx.455 Posted: Sat Jun 25 22:21:29 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jun-83 22:26:17 EDT Lines: 18 Personally, I like tarantulas and scorpions crawling around inside... But one I thought up a while ago might really be worth building. At least, I get a lot of satisfaction at imagining this thing going off for some crook... Take a cheap tape recorder, one of those .22 calibre blanks from stud setters, and one of those small CO2 cylinders from a pellet gun. When the regular car alarm goes off (or whatever), the tape recorder cuts on and that faithful standby, the 555 timer starts counting: "WARNING! WARNING! Cyanide gas will be released in exactly 10 seconds. 10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1." At one, fire the stud setter blank--electrically, or a solenoid, I don't care--and drive a pin into the CO2 cylinder. I think the hissing should really make the thief's day, don't you? Rube Goldberg, watch out, Dave Ihnat ihuxx!ignatz