Hideous Pecking Bird

The Hideous Pecking Bird is located on a runner that circles your car along the edge of the roof, where most cars used to have a little rain gutter.

He is a mechanical device that perches benignly, when at rest, just above the centre of the windscreen. You can activate him into a series of modes ranging from serenade through vigilance to defend and attack. In serenade function he calmly swivels his head from side to side and sings harmoniously like a lark, but at any time he can quickly switch across to defend and attack posture.

In this latter guise he becomes the Hideous Pecking Bird. His normally sweet voice ceases, and is replaced by the vocalised repetition add nauseum of a series of diabolical puns, as he begins roaming around his territorial loop and extending his telescopic neck to snap like a vulture at anyone who approaches his car without the disarming remote. He is especially good at deterring those irritating bill posters who stick their unwanted notes and fliers under your windscreen wipers, but he can equally be programmed on long journeys for vigilance.

In this mode he peers in through the windows randomly, tapping on the glass and squawking loudly to prevent sleep induced accidents.