I'm making a solution for some idiot who might vandalize my Trump sign

[otto105]

I just put a 4-foot by 8-foot Trump campaign sign at the bottom of my driveway. I had a 4-foot square plywood sign down there in 2016, and one idiot thought it was funny to put roofing nails in my driveway. I moved the plywood sign up the road a bit, and it's been there since 2020. Since then, someone painted over the "T" in Trump, and I had to repaint it. Then a few weeks ago, some other idiot spray painted over the word "Trump."

So now I have a new sign. I not only put a game camera in hidden view, I'm also making a little surprise. I made a booby trap trigger out of a clothespin, two metal tacks, a high-current 3.7V Li-Ion battery, some military-issue trip wire, an Estes rocket igniter, and an M-80 firecracker. I still have to paint them green, to blend in with the weeds and grass. I might just get a couple small packs of firecrackers and try those if this works. The trigger has been tested to be working. It has a thin piece of non-conductive plastic between the metal tacks, which is connected to the trip wire. When the wire is stepped on, it pulls the plastic strip out, the contacts send 3.7V to the igniter, and it goes "Bang!"


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If you hurt someone you will be liable for any damages.

 

[beautress]

I just put a 4-foot by 8-foot Trump campaign sign at the bottom of my driveway. I had a 4-foot square plywood sign down there in 2016, and one idiot thought it was funny to put roofing nails in my driveway. I moved the plywood sign up the road a bit, and it's been there since 2020. Since then, someone painted over the "T" in Trump, and I had to repaint it. Then a few weeks ago, some other idiot spray painted over the word "Trump."

So now I have a new sign. I not only put a game camera in hidden view, I'm also making a little surprise. I made a booby trap trigger out of a clothespin, two metal tacks, a high-current 3.7V Li-Ion battery, some military-issue trip wire, an Estes rocket igniter, and an M-80 firecracker. I still have to paint them green, to blend in with the weeds and grass. I might just get a couple small packs of firecrackers and try those if this works. The trigger has been tested to be working. It has a thin piece of non-conductive plastic between the metal tacks, which is connected to the trip wire. When the wire is stepped on, it pulls the plastic strip out, the contacts send 3.7V to the igniter, and it goes "Bang!"


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Beautiful sign, JG. Hope the fireworks do not set your sign on fire. Could you substitute the noise of firecrackers for the flammables? The effort might produce a million dollar invention with you as it's recipient. And the sign would stay put.

 

[toobfreak]

So now I have a new sign.

We apparently think a lot alike, JG. Some additional ideas:

1. You might consider wiring a motion detector that if anyone gets within 10 feet of the sign, a bright spotlight comes on, hits the area, and it fires up a 105dB police siren.
2. Keep the deer camera in place.
3. You could put thin sheets (1/8th inch) clear plastic over the sign, then if they mess with it, all you need to do is clean or replace the plastic.
4. Set up an electric fence around the sign about 3 feet away fairly close to the ground and innocuous looking that if they touch it with their leg, they get 50,000 volts.
5. And of course, let them step over the fence to get closer and step on a few hidden bear traps.
6. Another idea is to set up a hose with nozzles facing both directions at the sign that if you approach the sign too close, a motion detector trips a solenoid that turns on a compressor back at the house that opens a valve at the nozzle end that sprays a fierce jet of skunk juice all over the interloper.
7. Or instead, you can just rig up a noose trap to the above motion circuit with rope hidden in the grass that if someone approaches too close, the motion is tripped, the rope is pulled, a foot gets trapped in the noose, and the violator is quickly pulled up a nearby tree by the foot hanging upside down until released.

More ideas if ya needs 'em. I'll leave it up to you to figure out how to navigate around local codes.

Democrats just don't believe in a fair contest. They have to go around messing with other people's property looking for ways to cheat. I like to makes 'em pay.

 

[toobfreak]

I would rethink it because we are not allowed to booby trap our property in any harmful way to protect it.

Yet the government does it all the time. There are ways around every code.

 

[toobfreak]

Idiots like JGalt think they are Patriots when they Break the Law.

You sound like some pinhead who got nailed for sneaking onto private property and trying to vandalize someone's sign!

 

[Winco]

You sound like some pinhead who got nailed for sneaking onto private property and trying to vandalize someone's sign!

Wrong, I just laugh at anyone that sticks a sign in their yard, flys those stupid flags on their vehicles, or puts stickers on their cars.

Is that you?

 

[Mr Natural]

Note better to do?

 

[Foxfyre]

Yet the government does it all the time. There are ways around every code.

The government makes it quite clear they do not regard the average citizen to be government.

 

[toobfreak]

I just laugh at anyone that sticks a sign in their yard, flys those stupid flags

So you think patriotism expressed for your country a silly waste of time.

 

[toobfreak]

The government makes it quite clear they do not regard the average citizen to be government.

Yet our Constitution clearly states that we are a government OF THE PEOPLE.

 

[Foxfyre]

Yet our Constitution clearly states that we are a government OF THE PEOPLE.

The government we have now has no interest in the intention, letter, or law contained in the Constitution. I'm pretty sure if they are successful in achieving the totalitarian government they obviously are shooting for, the Constitution will be no more.

 

[Winco]

So you think patriotism expressed for your country a silly waste of time.

Trump Flags Simp.

 

[toobfreak]

Trump Flags Simp.

Harris Whore Bitch.