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Install a small light inside a plain black attache case, such that aforesaid case lights up automatically when opened, like a fridge. One of the great tropes of many a Hollywood movie could thus be made real. On your way to work, imagine the amusement of fellow commuters as you placed the briefcase
on your lap and opened it up (facing towards you, of course) just wide enough for it to emit an eery, other-worldly glow, but not wide enough that they could actually see what was inside.
Changeable filters over the bulb would allow for different effects: gold, for the standard case-full-of-bullion look; blue for the alien-power-source effect; green for the my-god-it's-radioactive look; red for the devil's-very-very-bad-thing-that's-just-too-damn-scary-to-name effect.
One possible extra would be a refillable / replaceable canister of dry ice, jigged to release a small cloud to billow menacingly out of the briefcase and enhance the lighting effect.
And, yes, I know this idea runs the risk of incurring the dreaded WTRCTTISIAMWIBNIIWR, (or whatever the acronym is) but it seems an eminently feasible optional add-on to your standard briefcase... certainly easier to build than a real lightsabre. And a plain old no-special-effects light might even be useful (if somewhat boring) in your attache case. Now if only I needed an attache case.
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muriatic acid makes an excellent 'smoke' effect - handle carefully. You can also use battery powered strobe lights - up and running for $2.00 US including lights and batteries. |
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Once played a great April Fools' Day joke. One of our staff, a Maori woman, dressed in chador and sandals and made an appointment to see a partner in our family law section. |
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I set up a briefcase with 10 bundles of fake banknotes and a popup umbrella. Amanda sat in reception for 20 minutes humming Maori folk songs to herself, sounding to all the world like she was a slightly unhinged Arab woman. She even stopped at one point, asking in which direction Mecca lay so she could pray. She had 'carelessly' let the receptionist see that she had a briefcase full of cash and kept clicking the button on the umbrella so it banged against the inside of the breifcase. |
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The receptionist called me several times to tell me she was concerned that the woman had a weapon in the case and that she had what appeared to be around $1 million cash on her person. Trying very hard not to laugh at this point. |
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Finally, she got to see Brian Ward, the partner. He's quite confused because she keeps insisting she'll pay him whatever it takes for her and the other seven wives to get divorces from her abusive, sex-crazed husband. I then rang him and, in a heavy accent, asked him to detain her on behalf of the Saudi government. I told him I was Jihad bin Abdul Dabat, security attache at the Saudi consul's office in Canberra and that we would have two men there within 5 hours. He was being very serious and circumspect, trying not to let on to the crazy woman what was being discussed. At this point I started to laugh and gave the game away... best practical joke I've ever pulled off! |
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I so wish I'd had one of these cases, with an unearthly green glow issuing from within. |
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UnaBubba: <chortle> A friend and I once loaded a briefcase with various suspicious items - Yugoslavian war comic, porn mag, international currency, newspaper clippings, blueprints, arms dealer business cards, etc. - and left it in a car park, handcuffed to the severed arm of a shop dummy. Then there were the loaded wallets we sneaked into the pockets of jackets in department stores, complete with blackmail letters in an ersatz Indo-European language. I'm a firm believer in making the world a more whimsical, and thereby interesting, place.</chortle> |
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I like it! An added advantage would be that (as occasionally happens on the London Underground) when the train stops and the lights go out I could open my case and carry on reading my book by the eerie glowing light coming from it.
Optional: As well as eerie (colour-configurable) glow and dry-ice smoke, the case should have dramatic organ music. |
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This is the first idea in a while that comes with a ready crowd of admirers. Tell 'em I left hours ago … and eat the rest of that croissant. |
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I keep thinking of Pulp Fiction, and the scene where Samuel L. Jackson gets his wallet back.
"It's the one that says `Bad Motherfucker' on it." |
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This could also make a great car alarm sort of thing... the open the door and it glows evily playing creepy organ music at over 120 decibells... |
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bliss sez:
I will have mine with eerie sound effects also please, to scare away chatty travelers I
don't like. (Maybe creaking door noise when case is opened, rattling chains, a little
moaning.....) |
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Maybe you have AOL installed and then you get all those lovely sounds while you
check your email
the light is the computer screen,
creaking door is the "buddy" enter sound,
etc. |
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