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SF Company Created a Bike Lock That Makes Thieves Vomit
San Fracisco Chronicle ^ | Friday, October 21, 2016 | Amy Graff

Posted on 10/22/2016 12:06:52 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Bike thieves be wary.

A pair of San Francisco entrepreneurs are developing a way to stop you—and you'll probably think it really stinks.

Daniel Idzkowski and Yves Perrenoud created a steel U-lock called the SkunkLock that emits a noxious, vomit-inducing odor into the face of the person attempting to cut it.

The acids in the pressurized formula are food-grade, sharing the same properties as those found in fowl-smelling Swedish fermented herring. Inhalation won't cause permanent harm but it does lead 99 percent of people to throw up uncontrollably.

As your angle grinder just starts to break through the lock's steel, you're probably going to back off once you get a whiff.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News; Sports
KEYWORDS: bicyclelock; boobytrap; danielidzkowski; entrepreneur; swedishherring
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To: Impala64ssa

“Can I somehow use these locks to boobytrap my Trump yard sign? Some SOB vandalized it last night.”

Last night I saw my first vandalized Trump sign. I was surprised. I thought this was a pretty solid red area.


21 posted on 10/22/2016 5:45:55 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory.)
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To: nickcarraway

Yes


22 posted on 10/22/2016 5:59:53 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: HerrBlucher
I don’t think I have ever vomited controllably.

I have not ever.

I try to avoid it at all costs.

Unfortunately, I'm not always successful.

23 posted on 10/22/2016 6:27:44 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: HerrBlucher

The eyes have it.

But what is it?


24 posted on 10/22/2016 6:36:15 AM PDT by Rock N Jones (s)
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To: nickcarraway

***Swedish fermented herring***

The most foul smell I have ever smelled was when I set a large fly trap jar, the one you mix an attractant and water with, out one summer. When I emptied it you WILL vomit! It is so strong people downwind for a block gagged.

If you get it on you it soaks into the skin and you will stink for days!


25 posted on 10/22/2016 6:59:27 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Evil women. Jezebel, Athaliah, Livia Drusilla, Messalina, Lucrezia Borgia, Hillary Clinton)
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To: Arlis

Oh many times. I don’t think you caught what I was trying to say...which is that vomiting is always uncontrollable.


26 posted on 10/22/2016 7:27:58 AM PDT by HerrBlucher (For the sake of His sorrowful passion have mercy on us and on the whole world.)
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To: nickcarraway

http://www.skunk-skunk.com/121755/The%2DProduct


27 posted on 10/22/2016 9:56:29 AM PDT by Ozark Tom (History rhymes--like it's July 1789.)
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To: Mark17
Yes, some asshat will sue, claiming that they are interfering with his ability to steal your bike.
Back in the 70's-80's there was a NYPD policewoman known as "muggable Mary". She would dress up as a homeless "bad lady", prostitute, druggie, etc. as a way of catching muggers and rapists. Sure enough, the ACLU sought court injunctions against NYC to end this practice on the grounds that "a mugger should know who he's mugging".
28 posted on 10/22/2016 10:32:01 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Impala64ssa
Why am I not surprised?
Now, I am not into THIS particular thing, but using that logic, if a police woman is out posing as a prostitute, would they give a "John" the same courtesy, and say, he should know who he is doing the evil deed with?
29 posted on 10/22/2016 10:54:29 AM PDT by Mark17 (Calvary's love has never faltered. All it's wonder still remains. Souls still take eternal passage.)
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To: nickcarraway

It won’t survive the first lawsuit by somebody who gets sickened by it.


30 posted on 10/22/2016 10:56:36 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Bob

Unwashed, living chicken can smell pretty bad.


31 posted on 10/23/2016 2:44:35 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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