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A lot of us work in an office setting. It seems like if you put your lunch in to a communal refrigerator there will be a good chance that it’ll get stolen or an item could be taken out of your lunch bag/box.
I propose a tamper-proof lunch sack that bursts a type of red-ink that will stain the fingers
of the notorious ‘lunch thief’. The outside (bottom) of the bag will have a small keypad that can be preprogrammed so a key code can be entered before opening the bag. The locking mechanism is not meant to theoretically ‘lock the bag’; it’s mainly to disengage the trigger that releases the ink. If you don’t enter the code then choose to open the bag and stick your hand in, then Boom! You now can be found :-) hopefully.
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Periodically we have trouble at my day job with food theft. I suspect it's a universal problem in most workplaces. I like this idea. |
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The ink on my food better be nontoxic... |
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Welcome to the halfbakery HalfBias.
[21] is right about the lunch thief figuring this one out, but I do think it's so low for people to take other's lunch! |
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Latex gloves..magnificent! Maybe there could be a device that instantly sends a text message to your cell phone alerting you that there is a breach in progress; whether the bag is cut or opened. There could be sensors built in to the skin of the bag. Then you can catch the lunch burglar ‘red’ handed. |
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Thanks for the welcome xandram. |
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..and [Voice] definitely nontoxic ink. |
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Add lots of cayenne pepper to your sandwiches, or
inject a little capsaicin into an apple, using a syringe.
You'll only have to do it once. |
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[infidel] I’d still want to eat my lunch so this strategy wouldn’t work. An ordinary lunch jacking happens maybe once a week, so this means you have a 1 in 5 chance that your lunch would get stolen in a week. If I pre-inject my food then my chances of actually eating are zero. |
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Me! I love 'em! I probably eat a couple of Pink Lady
apples and a Braeburn every day. Not so keen on
Fujis, they're a bit sweet. Delicious leave a slight
aftertaste of kerosene... |
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I also like hot chili, so I wouldn't mind bombing a
sandwich up to keep it from being filched. |
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//I wouldn't mind bombing a sandwich up to keep it
from being filched.// |
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Think this through, now. You'd bomb your sandwich
once to discourage future theft. But, it has to get
filched in order for the ruse to work. |
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I guess the same thing is true of ink bomb. I'd hope
there was only one thief in the office.... |
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Well, you wouldn't bomb the same sandwich twice,
would you? |
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