A bike seat that leaks blood-red dye into the cushion if a hidden button hasn't been pressed within the past month.
-- Worldgineer, May 06 2013

Why wait so long - why not have it activate for each use unless disarmed?
-- normzone, May 06 2013


Because I'd forget to push the button often. Hopefully I'd remember at least once per month.
-- Worldgineer, May 06 2013


Pressing button resets timer holding back powerful spring loaded spike
-- pocmloc, May 06 2013


[pocmloc] from the help file //cruelty - the idea is a new way of torturing or killing a person or an animal for pleasure or revenge. For example new, more painful ways of executing prisoners; or ways to booby-trap one's home to maim burglars.// Spring loaded spikes in seats are old news, and can get ideas into mfd land.
-- xenzag, May 06 2013


[xenzag] has an excellent point, except for the fact that this is not a new way of torturing or killing a person or an animal for pleasure or revenge, and does not involve a spring loaded spike. Spot on, [xen].
-- MaxwellBuchanan, May 06 2013


OK, good point. So, the spike is fake, the spring very weak and there is a concealed steel plate between the spike and the seat. But it looks terrifying.
-- pocmloc, May 07 2013


Heh. I like that.
-- Worldgineer, May 07 2013


See, I was just protecting the bike seat. Bike seats have to be the most frequent bike part stolen. I had several stolen in college. Riding home is still possible, but much less fun.

Your idea would work as well.
-- Worldgineer, May 08 2013


[max] has an excellent point, except he fails to notice I was referring to [pocmloc's] annotation and not actual the idea.
-- xenzag, May 08 2013


Ah - in that case, collapse of stout party and apologies to [xenzag].
-- MaxwellBuchanan, May 08 2013


Freud was a pseudointellectual and a preud.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, May 08 2013


[MB] I can only applaud the way you slipped "preud" in there as if it was a word. Or was this just prior to Freud becoming an "ud"?
-- AusCan531, May 09 2013


//I've had 3 whole bikes stolen, never once had just the seat taken

Presumably there is the third option of someone stealing bikes, but leaving the saddles behind?
-- not_morrison_rm, May 09 2013


"Wo! Piles giving you gyp mate?"

"Na, it's me bleadin' bike seat."
-- theleopard, May 09 2013


Potentially, instead of just using paint, it could annotate the thief's rear with a legend:

"Dirty", or
"Kick here", or
"Caution : noxious fumes", or
"I'm with stupid ^".
-- Loris, May 09 2013



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