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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
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Posted: Sat Jun 25 22:21:29 1983
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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