The Guardian reports:
A man approaches a bicycle, handheld electric saw at the ready. He powers it on, starts to drill, and is shot in the face with a noxious spray that makes him vomit uncontrollably. This is the dream of the inventors of SkunkLock.
“Basically we were fed up with thefts,” said Daniel Idzkowski (top left) from San Francisco, one of the inventors of SkunkLock.
…With his co-inventor, Yves Perrenoud (top right), Idzkowski created a U-shaped lock of carbon and steel with a hollow chamber to hold one of three pressurized gases of their own concoction, including one called “formula D_1”. When someone cuts about 30% of the way into the lock, Idzkowski said, the gas erupts in the direction of the gash.
“It’s pretty much immediately vomit inducing, causes difficulty breathing,” Idzkowski said. “A lot of similar symptoms to pepper spray.”
Bike lock developed that makes thieves immediately vomit (The Guardian)
Thanks John Gallen and Bertie Blenkinsop
Meanwhile…
must…resist… pic.twitter.com/4quc7zUr2W
— Paul Reynolds (@PaulFedayn) October 21, 2016
Ah here.
That’s good.
Real good.
I would love to see a skumbag get blasted by one of those when they cut through it.
That said, reactionary behaviour will probably cause them to make poo of the bike anyway. In Dublin anyway.
Not having it branded may be a help too.
Having it branded would be better. If it acts as a deterrent and they don’t cut because of the gas it that’s better than having to buy a new one.
Also I’ve been leaving my bike on the street in Dublin for over 3 years and the only thing that ever happened was my saddle was nicked. That includes leaving it overnight a good few times after I’ve had a drink.
Brilliant idea. Dye the gas an indelible flurorescent pink too.
+1
Super idea all round!
Chances of this also going off when it’s not supposed to: 100%
also, wouldn’t stop thieves who were working in twos or more (once the spray has gone off)
Ehhhhhh, Joe, me young fella D’Brickashaw got blasted in the face by de gaaas from some culchie’s boyik.*cue lawsuit*
+1
law suit in the making this yolk – good idea until it gases a passerby
that’s the problem. or even the scrote robbing your bike would be able to take a case
“vomit inducing, causes difficulty breathing”.
You’re talking about people who steal bicycles to pay for heroin. They smoke counterfeit tobacco, they don’t eat, they don’t have central heating, any vitamins they get are probably coming from over-the-counter painkillers. Vomiting and breathing difficulties are less a deterrent than a fact of life, alas.
The balls on that yoke!
Actual vaporware.
My hatred of bike thieves says yes but my aversion to solving life’s problems with chemical weapons says no. :-/
Make it happen, but use Mustard Gas.
It anatomically incomplete but none the less a welcome addition to road safety, no doubt the RSA will
distribute them