WG and Icarus' Auto Protection Solutions

[icarus]

After the break-in, which was most likely a failed attempted theft:

Auto-protection solutions!

icarusancalion: We could run 9,000 amps through the body of the car.

wildernessguru: I'm thinking we should take off the distributor cap.

icarusancalion: A live cougar in the back seat?

wildernessguru: And a silent alarm. That way I can break their legs while they're under the car trying to get it to work.

icarusancalion: My dad had a kill switch.

wildernessguru: In South Africa they had so many car jackings, the government approved two propane tanks under the hood. You just hit a switch and it shot flames out the side. I want one of those.

icarusancalion: By the time we're done, this is gonna look like Mad Maxx.

Comments

[cheshyre]

Have you ever seen Wizard of Speed and Time
Lead character rides a bike and has an amazing security system...

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen it, but it sounds great already.

My car bomb idea is somewhat self-defeating, unfortunately. >:D

Icarus

[cheshyre]

In an early scene Mike Jittlov parks his bike and turns on the security system. You see someone in the background try to grab it and get jolted by electricity.

Much later, when Mike returns to his bike, he passes this entire chain of jittering people, all linked back to the attempted thief. When Jittlov turns off the security system, the entire line just falls to the ground.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Yep. That'll do.

I'll take one to go.

Icarus

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

We could run 9,000 amps through the body of the car.

I met a guy who'd done, well, not quite that, but close. He was a mechanic, and people had broken into his truck and stolen thousands of dollars worth of tools on two occasions. He researched California law and discovered that he could legally install a system that would give an extremely nasty but non-lethal jolt of current to anyone who tried to break into his truck just as long as he had a warning label on each side of the vehicle.

The next time somebody tried, the cops found the perp at the emergency room with a nasty electrical burn on his hand.

He had the biggest grin on his face while telling the story.

Anyway, sorry to hear about your unhappy experience. Hope it's a one-off.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

The next time somebody tried, the cops found the perp at the emergency room with a nasty electrical burn on his hand.

I love that. :D *evil chuckle*

Anyway, sorry to hear about your unhappy experience. Hope it's a one-off.

Same here. But we're prowling our car as if the thieves are at the gate.

Icarus

[dphearson.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

sounds like something out of 007, actually!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Vrooom! Really.

Those flamethrowers really existed, no kidding. I doubt the City of Seattle will allow us the permits, more's the pity.

Icarus

[wickedelf.livejournal.com]

heh, I want to see this car when it's done! Beware, thieves!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

WG's has quite seriously mentioned bear spray under the door handle.

Ha. Maybe we should paint a white skunk stripe down it as a warning.

Icarus

[dustandroses.livejournal.com]

All I can think of is from any number of Monty Python sketches: The thief tries to open the door of your car, and a huge 1 ton weight drops out of the sky and lands on top of him. Or, maybe like the Roadrunner...Wile E. Coyote walks up to the door and a semi comes flying by and he ends up as the semi's hood ornament.

Not much real help, huh? You can see where I spent my childhood...beep beep!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm hoping that our experiments are slightly more successful than Wile E. Coyote's, but the thought has crossed my mind, I tell you.

Icarus

[driscoll.livejournal.com]

I'd rule out the cougar. I think they're expensive to feed and I know they'd be hell on the upholstery.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

*nods* And then there's the vet bills. He might get sick, devouring my arm.

Icarus