another nice thing would be a caltrop-dropper.  have an
electro-mechanical release switch attached to a tube of caltrops up
behind the taillight...when you press the button the caltrops drop out
next to the exhaust pipe and into the tirepath of the tailgater.  no way
to see it, let alone identify it as yours...

bill

On Friday, January 25, 2002, at 01:51 , Dan Snow wrote:

> I've fantasized for a long time about mounting a rear-facing paintball
> gun
> for tailgaters. Now that I have a diesel vanagon, and a nice hollow
> behind
> the right rear tail light, I guess I don't have any excuse anymore.
> Drill
> .68 caliber hole in taillight. Maybe an oil injector in the exhaust
> pipe--give it a shot of oil, then start firing away through the cloud.
> The
> impacts would look like chunks of poor-boy silicon gasket, and I could
> always tell cops that my engine was eating its oil pan gasket and
> throwing
> it out the exhaust pipe... OOOHhh this is exciting.
>
>
> Daniel Snow
>
> '82 Vanagon Diesel
> '78 Puch Maxi Luxe Moped
> '01 Xootr Scooter
> http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/snow/vanagon/vanagon.html
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