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Before going on your next trip to the cabin or camping, buy 1/2
dozen or more of these little beauties and slip them into your
backpack.
Consisting of little more than a pair of reflective eyes joined
together with a strip of plastic, surreptitiously hang them in the
trees before dark around
your campsite or on the pathway to the
outdoor toilet. They come in colors such as 'ominous green' or
'angry red' plus they can have cats eye or demon eye shaped pupils
as well being in a various range of sizes.
As darkness falls imagine the fun you'll have as your fellow
campers
notice the eye shine reflecting back at them from the campfire or
their flashlights. Once you've had your fun, leave them there for
the next set of visitors.
Eyes in the Bushes- glow sticks and toilet paper rolls
http://www.pinteres...243475923575598975/
[tatterdemalion, Oct 14 2013]
The Toilet Paper Roll and Glow Stick Idea
http://i.imgur.com/MFuh5P4.jpg
[AusCan531, Oct 21 2013]
[link]
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This is Baked as a Halloween trick (1997 -
1999). |
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Even more effective when interspersed with
pairs of red LEDs on T-shaped wooden
frames planted in undergrowth and wired
back to a central (concealed, camouflaged)
switching panel powered by an automotive
battery. Pairs of glowing red eyes were
switched on and off by an operator to give
the desired result (small children running
away panic-stricken and shrieking in
terror). |
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This is not, however, Widely Known To Exist.
Indeed it came as a complete shock to a
couple of cyclists who wandered throught the
event area at dusk just before the actual
proceedings began and became unwitting
test subjects. Hilarity ensued … |
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In the final season, the performance was
augmented by loudspeakers which played
growling and snuffling noises, and thin black
cords tied to bushes allowing the operator to
rustle foliage around the "audience"
(=victims). Several episodes of loss of
bladder control and acute hysteria in under-
10s were observed at various locations on
the walk. Surprisingly, there were no
complaints; patrons had paid their money to
be "scared out of their wits" and indeed the
show was exactly as advertised. |
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Those little kids have no doubt matured into
traumatised, disturbed, unbalanced neurotic adults who still occcasionally wake
up screaming in the night, and have a
pathological aversion to dark autumnal
woodlands. MUHWHAHAHAHAHA ! |
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And we were PAID to do it. Doesn't get much
better than that … |
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Good stories guys, both of them. I was trying to think of a
way to get the occasional blinking action and the best I
could come up was with some sort of breeze activated
shutters or rain activated tipping cups. I gave it up in
favour of simplicity and cheapness. Far better to surround
your victims with 15 pairs of baleful eyes than 5 pairs of
blinking ones. |
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What about some of those silvery colour-changing "hologram" security stickers ? |
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My mother in law says to use glowsticks inside toilet paper rolls, something she found on pinterest. |
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// use glowsticks inside toilet paper rolls // |
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What for, exactly ? If it's something disgusting
and depraved, we don't want to know,
although [21Quest] probably does … |
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As I understand it, one cuts eye holes in the sides of the toilet paper tubes, inserts an activated glowstick, covers the ends with foil and hangs the assembly in a tree or sets in bushes at night. All of this creates the appearance of glowing eyes. |
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I've linked to what I believe is the pinterest in question. |
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In Maine, where many people live right on the side of rural
highways to save on the number of roads that have to be
built, plowed in the winter, and then rebuilt in the spring,
it has become a fad to 'encourage' people to slow down
going through one's 'neighborhood' (i.e. a cluster of houses
alongside a road posted 55 mph) by putting up a life-sized
plywood silhouette of a deer with little reflective stickers
made for bike helmets where the eyes would go. |
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Some of us are not at all impressed by this fad. |
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[21], quit being a pussy; you don't need a gun to deal with
coyotes, you just wave your arms and shout "booga booga
booga!" |
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Well, that's just natural selection. When human beings start
forgetting who the apex predators are around here, it's
time to thin out the gene pool. |
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// putting up a life-sized plywood silhouette of a deer |
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Do they create these themselves or can they be purchased at the local Home Depot? Perhaps there's someone in the county with a template everyone borrows. |
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// stalking small children // |
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It's not all bad, then. Do they eat cats ? |
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Thanks for that [tatterdemalion]. I'm curious whether you had previously heard from your Mother-in-law about the glowing eyed toilet paper rolls or you discuss Halfbakery postings with her? Either way is interesting. |
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Previously heard... it's been a matter of much discussion with Halloween approaching and your post brought it to mind. |
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// Do they create these themselves or can they be
purchased at the local Home Depot? Perhaps there's
someone in the county with a template everyone borrows.
// |
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As far as I'm aware they are created individually by
thoughtless morons copying other thoughtless morons. If
there is a central template distribution facility, my hatchet
and I are going to have words with the management. |
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// they are created individually by thoughtless morons copying other thoughtless morons. // |
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Just like human reproduction, then ... |
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// As far as I'm aware they are created individually by thoughtless morons copying other thoughtless morons. |
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How is accuracy regards artistic and biological? I'm seeing the potential for some entertainingly malformed buck silhouettes. |
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Given the noted (and disturbing) affection of
the indigents for their domestic and
domesticated animals, such a creation is less
likely to be engineered as a speed deterrent
and more likely to be the equivalent of a red
lamp in a bordello's window … |
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In some parts of the East Anglia, there is a recent
trend for placing lifesize painted plywood children* on
the edge of the road at blind bends and humpback
bridges, as a warning to motorists. There has been a
responsive trend for mowing down these plywood
simulacra. This will, inevitably, end with an
embarrassing mistake. |
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[*the plywood children are clearly not modelled on
locals, as they have the normal numbers of fingers and
eyes and are smiling.] |
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Halloween, while not celebrated much in Oz, was last night so I used the glowsticks in toilet rolls method and my kids at least, thought they looked cool when I suspended them in the bushes around our house. Didn't have any trick or treaters though. |
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