The problem of retaining a deckchair in a busy prime seaside location has now been solved with The Venus Flytrap Deckchair

It's a simple idea that consists of a standard deckchair being modified to take on some of the characteristics of a Venus Fly trap.

To sit on it you have to force it into the open position using a handcrank to overcome the powerful spring that otherwise keeps it closed up.

Once fully deployed, a two digit code of choice keeps the deckchair safely locked open but primed for when you want to take a short break away, perhaps to enjoy a dip in the sea or the pool.

On sitting down again, the deckhair will expect the code to be inserted once more within a few minutes. Failure to do so triggers a release of the spring and the chair snaps shut like a Venus fly trap, only now containing the pesky deckchair usurper.

Super fiendish version features rapid chemical digestion and disposal of miscreant.
-- xenzag, Nov 08 2021

It's not real you know...
-- xenzag, Nov 08 2021


It's hard to hide mechanical latches given close enough observation.

If I were a deckchair usurper, I would tend to avoid the one with the overly-heavy built frame, large springs, and complicated mechanism that looks like it's designed to spring closed.
-- RayfordSteele, Nov 08 2021


//If I were a deckchair usurper, I would tend to avoid the one with the overly-heavy built frame…// That’s a result.
-- xenzag, Nov 08 2021


Precisely.
-- RayfordSteele, Nov 08 2021



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