You could also stick a little dummy antenna on the car to help bolster
this bluff.

Josh
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Tom Messenger wrote:
>
> At 08:45 PM 2/3/02 -0600, you wrote:
> >        The sad thing is that a low power transmitter would not have
> worked. I am
> >considering a digital camera, that will take snap shots and store the image
> >to flash. About one image per 10 seconds, after the alarm has been
> >activated, till it runs out of memory or until the alarm is reset.
> >        A JPG 640X480 image is about 40K, an 1megx8 flash is about 25
> images, at 10
> >seconds apart, will be about 4 minutes of pictures. This should be enough to
> >get at least one good picture.
> >
> >Gordon Varney
> >Victim number 3 from the list.
>
> I had an idea along those lines also. It occurred to me that they might
> want to tear the car apart trying to find the camera with their photo. So
> accompany it with an ISD speech chip that blares out a message like "Your
> photo has just been sent to the sheriffs department. Please get out of the
> car and an officer will be here in two minutes to arrest you."  This way,
> they leave but get *very* worried about their picture being sent off. Also,
> it leaves them thinking that their picture *has* been sent off and that
> there is no reason to hang around and try to find the camera that took it.
>
> Tom M.
>
>

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