LOL! Well, first of all, it wouldn't be difficult to prevent it from
accidentally going off (how often in normal driving does the weight get
lifted from all four wheels for more than a second?) and you could also
have the connection between the cable and the car frame use a secure lock
which you had the key for (so YOU could disconnect it from the car, but the
thieves couldn't).

Sean

At 10:15 PM 10/24/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Could you imagine what it'd be like if that accidentally went off! you'd
>never get the car home.
>
>Mark Craig
>m.craig@ntlworld.com
>Glasgow
>Scotland
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Sean H. Breheny <shb7@CORNELL.EDU>
> > This may be taking things a bit far for what is only a remote risk, but
> > what about a countermeasure which would detect when a car was being lifted
> > and would release a hub with long, telescoping, hardened steel rods. This
> > hub could be connected to the frame of the car with a steel cable. In
>other
> > words, when the thieves (literally, no pun intended)  lifted your car, it
> > would release this thing which would be spring loaded and would extend
>rods
> > which were, from one rod tip to the opposite rod tip, perhaps 8 feet long.
> > In order to still be able to take your car on their flatbed, they would
> > have to spend precious time trying to cut this thing free from it or
> > bend/dismantle it in some way, otherwise they would be dragging it behind
> > as they drove away (it would be too wide to neatly fit on the back of the
> > flatbed).
> >
> > Sean
>
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