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Tailgate Bubbleizer

Discourages and severely reprimands offenders
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This quick mod to your windshield spritzer acts as a safety device for both you and the idiot following much too closely.

Activated automatically by the backup camera, the Bubbleizer directs a thick stream of bubbles over your roof and into the path of the offender.

Increasing degrees of reprimand solutions are available via the tank next to the washer fluid, from rainbow bubbles to gummy spaghetti, and even a mild acid etch. Colors, too!

minoradjustments, May 10 2025

Use Catch-A-Bubble https://www.toyworl...ZcRlzED7m1oKSuKdrrX
Formula for a more permanent 'mess' [neutrinos_shadow, May 13 2025]

Soap Screen Soap_20Screen
available as a battlefront weapon from 20 years ago [xenzag, May 13 2025]

There's actually a category for this. Another_20Anti-tailgating_20Device
[doctorremulac3, May 14 2025]

Gummy Launcher Gummy_20Launcher
Works both fore and aft. [minoradjustments, May 14 2025]

In the same vein ... Bubbling_20Turn_20Signals
[normzone, May 15 2025]

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       Arguably more fun than the oil sprayer mounted to the rear bumper. [+]
whatrock, May 11 2025
  

       Righto. Bunned, not Bond.
minoradjustments, May 11 2025
  

       I bunned this... but...   

       ...if your bubbles cause the person behind you to crash due to spasmodicism they will be well within their rights to sue you for the accident they say you caused whether that is the case or not.   

       That's all I have to say.   

       ..until somebody refutes me of course.   

       That goes without saying.   

       To risk sounding cruel and unfeeling, you would be well down the road when the fit hit the shan. As ever, our thoughts and prayers go with the innocents subject to collateral damage.   

       Bubbles? What bubbles?
minoradjustments, May 13 2025
  

       Two words;   

       Dash cam.   

       It's nice to imagine a world where this sort of ad-hoc vigilantism isn't needed or desirable. While I'm dreaming, maybe some sort of taxpayer funded crime fighting organization could "police" the roads? Serving as a mechanism of removing offenders and acting as a baseline disincentive.
bs0u0155, May 13 2025
  

       I was thinking more of the lizard-brain satisfaction in the moment and less of the social engineering aspect. That social engineering is so boring. Compared to bubbles, anyway.
minoradjustments, May 13 2025
  

       That isn't very nice. Stuff could be harmed by the acid etch. (Put me down for two of them) [+]
sartep, May 14 2025
  

       Sorry in advance, just a little recent tangential side story I thought would amuse   

       Returning from an arduous trip to help our daughter move in a city two and half hours away with two trucks and a trailer, we of course piled on coming back with a thousand or so pounds of IKEA, had to hit Costco while we were there, The Bay is going out of business and liquidating everything cheap so you just know we gotta tap that on the way out.   

       I'm wiped by this time. I hand loaded that thousand pounds with my wife and now we've got two and a half hours to get home at a decent time.   

       This fucking Road-Karen slowed a massive string of traffic to 70 km/hr in a 100 hm/hour stretch for like twenty minutes and sped up to 110 at every dotted line and I'm the guy behind they/them.
I'm a chill dude, but after the third time I kept as close to his bumper as humanly possible, with enough room to avoid collision through the multiple brake checks for I don't know how many killometers, flashing my high beams in his rear view mirror before I was able to pass him or her. I was tempted to ride them back to their house...
  

       When I told this story to a buddy of mine the next day he told me that he's got a zip-lock baggy full of golf balls for just such occasions that he releases as he rolls by.   

       ... what?   

       They're kind of bubbles... sorta.   

       So what you are looking for is a forward component to the spritzer. I looked at the aerodynamics and concluded that an acceptably small reprimand unit could not be delivered as a fluid.   

       Maybe the previous( poorly reviewed) Gummy Launcher /link/ idea of mine would serve. The acid and the schadenfreude work in either application.
minoradjustments, May 14 2025
  

       There's actually a category for this. (link) Ideas ranging from spraying water to downright destroying the offending tailgater's car.   

       This one's pretty kind compared to some others.
doctorremulac3, May 14 2025
  

       Reading it, I thought for sure this was a Xenzag idea. [+]
21 Quest, May 14 2025
  
      
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