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On the back of my car is mounted a brushed steel tube about 6" long by 6" in diameter, discreetly marked "The Clown Automotive 'Whapper'". Inside is squashed a big red foam boxing glove mounted on a compressed spring, and on the end of the glove are printed the words "Safe drivers don't get whapped...".
The
glove can be released by a (brushed steel) button on the dash, whence it will leap forth from it's launch tube onto the windshield of whichever idiot is sitting on your tail. It is automatically retrieved five seconds later by a cord which runs down the centre of the spring and is tethered to a small electric winch mounted on the base of the tube.
Anti-tailgating device
anti-tailgating_20device
This ground was covered here before in an anno, but I figured this qualified as a new idea. [wagster, Jun 03 2005]
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I've always wanted a spacehopper cannon or howitzer, however boxing gloves will do until further notice [crash] |
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Little [crash] has done it again! (I'd also like one for the front bumper, to bat pesky pedestrians out of the way) |
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I think you should turn this into a propulsion mechanism. |
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If you can read this, youv'e been whapped. |
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Bun, but 1 concern. The phrase "my car" combined with you being the youngest baker... |
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This idea was originally posted by me on my account even though it was [crash]'s basic idea (hence the last line). It has since been moved to his brand new account which means I can bun it, something I don't do to my own ideas. [+] |
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I like the idea of a large foam contrivance which bursts to life on being ejected from a tube. |
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I think that the whapper would be great in mall parking lots for those people who obliviously walk behind your car while you are backing out. |
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I think I have a friend like you. |
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//I'd also like one for the front bumper, to bat pesky pedestrians out of the way// |
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Silly, just turn the windshiel wiper fluid squirting things around so they face forward. An accomplished 3/4 baker could do a little wiring, and put some motors in to do it for you automatically. |
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Granted, a car-mounted squirt gun is not quite as effective as a boxing glove... |
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If you're always being tailgated, isn't that
an indication that you should be driving
further forward? |
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Which problem would be resolved by commencing your journey four or five seconds earlier. |
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[+] for the fashion sense of using a brushed steel button. |
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