Ingenious Device

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

This certainly counts as hobby engineering, even if the guy is a professional engineer. And it's brilliant!

[Chris TriceParticipant @christrice43267]

Yes, saw this on the BBC News site earlier. These thieves seem to have no sense of right or wrong instilled in them. Shame it wasn't something a little more permanent.

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

It is unfortunate that the parcel delivery men are on piece work, they regularly dump stuff on the doorstep even when we are in, I complained once and was told that I had signed for the parcel so I must be mistaken. I obviously hadn't, the delivery guy just scrawls something on my behalf

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

When my chuck arrived last week the Post Office guy was able to teleport my signature to his pad saving me the cost of electricity for ringing my doorbell. Obviously very eco-conscious.

[Chris TriceParticipant @christrice43267]

Your signature never looks like what it should with the signing pads they use anyway.

[Jon LawesParticipant @jonlawes51698]

I really enjoyed that video. Excellent.

[Roger Williams 2Participant @rogerwilliams2]

Cracking video !. Urea would have been better than glitter though. Or a hand grenade……

[Brian OldfordParticipant @brianoldford70365]

Posted by Roger Williams 2 on 18/12/2018 19:36:02:

Cracking video !. Urea would have been better than glitter though. Or a hand grenade……

Regrettably the grenade would make it a one tripper.

[David Standing 1Participant @davidstanding1]

Posted by Brian Oldford on 18/12/2018 20:01:49:

Posted by Roger Williams 2 on 18/12/2018 19:36:02:

Cracking video !. Urea would have been better than glitter though. Or a hand grenade……

Regrettably the grenade would make it a one tripper.

Not a problem, you set up a production line

[Raymond Sanderson 2Participant @raymondsanderson2]

The guy who designed it should have also installed cans of glue spray so the glitter stuck everywhere it landed.

[Brian GParticipant @briang]

Those suggesting violent actions forget that they would also affect a good neighbour who tries to take the parcel in until the recipient returns home. In our street this would be much more likely than theft.

Brian

[CirclipParticipant @circlip]

No Brian, there's a tamper switch fitted INSIDE the package. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong, I NEVER open packages left with me for neighbours.

Regards Ian.

[wheeltapperParticipant @wheeltapper]

Posted by Brian G on 19/12/2018 11:32:22:

Those suggesting violent actions forget that they would also affect a good neighbour who tries to take the parcel in until the recipient returns home. In our street this would be much more likely than theft.

Brian

 

Yes, but a good neighbour wont open it will they.

Edited By wheeltapper on 19/12/2018 12:36:20

[Alan VosParticipant @alanvos39612]

The last time I accepted a package for a neighbour, its nature was clear enough without opening. The front bumper for a car. Some plastic wrapping, no box. Neighbour appeared about an hour later explaining he had trained the (small) kids not to accept presents from strangers.

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Posted by Brian G on 19/12/2018 11:32:22:

Those suggesting violent actions forget that they would also affect a good neighbour who tries to take the parcel in until the recipient returns home. In our street this would be much more likely than theft.

Brian

Tut Brian, it's Christmas. Fancy you ruining a perfectly good revenge fantasy by pointing out that an innocent bystander might get whacked by mistake! In this thread baddies thoroughly deserve violent painful deaths, kids never stand on land-mines, wedding parties aren't targetted accidentally by the CIA, and there are no miscarriages of justice…

I don't think anyone on this forum would really be stupid enough to booby trap a package with a grenade. It might be picked up by a child.

Dave

 

Edited By SillyOldDuffer on 19/12/2018 20:34:30

[thaiguzziParticipant @thaiguzzi]

Now that was clever! And funny.

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