Or maybe just take all the gas stations in the neighborhood hostage, wait for it to run out of fuel, then go collect the occupants. Sheesh.
Isn't there an old saying about taking a good idea too far?
Another possible idea: simply force everybody in the country to move around in a big circle to some place twenty miles down the road so that nobody will know where the stash of dynamite and bomb-making **** is in his neighborhood any longer.....