Commercial stun-guns are modified and hidden in ordinary objects, as counter-measure to unlawful search and seizure.

Positive points: a) possible using off-the-shelf components

Negative points: a) battery life/maintenance issues. b) likely to cause much concern if scanned c) backfire and collateral damage issues d) unusual approach invites similarly creative response from careerist prosecutors.
-- wod_observer, Jun 30 2011

//invites// Very true.
-- mouseposture, Jun 30 2011


We could have great fun taking only the positive points and negative points, and coming up with new inventions that they could apply to.
-- pocmloc, Jun 30 2011


Agreed. Using unusual off-the-shelf components is likely to backfire and invite a seizure response in careerist prosecutors.
-- mouseposture, Jun 30 2011


Google is not your friend. [marked-for-deletion] cellphone tasers are commercially available: widely known to exist.
-- FlyingToaster, Jul 01 2011


One of the nice things about the Halfbakery is that underscores_are_not_needed.
-- RayfordSteele, Jul 01 2011


I don't get how this is an "improvized device;" it seems more like a disguised device. Disguised weapons are illegal almost everywhere, making your "unlawful search and seizure" (wtf?) a very legal S & S. Making or carrying one is just begging to get arrested.
-- Alterother, Jul 01 2011


Would these objects be hidden on ones person? Or within the belongings? I have devised a similar system for my belongings, protecting them from unlawful search by storing them in a tottering and precarious pile with old beverage containers on top, and the possibility of roaches leaping out and getting down those unlawful shirts and trousers.

Just a "possibility", mom!
-- bungston, Jul 02 2011



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