{"id":197,"date":"2006-02-18T18:53:06","date_gmt":"2006-02-18T07:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/02\/18\/quick-project-to-make-the-world-a-better-place\/"},"modified":"2006-02-18T18:53:06","modified_gmt":"2006-02-18T07:53:06","slug":"quick-project-to-make-the-world-a-better-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/02\/18\/quick-project-to-make-the-world-a-better-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick project to make the world a better place"},"content":{"rendered":"

It wouldn’t be hard to build.<\/p>\n

You’d need a decent sized 9V battery, a loud 9V Siren, and a microswitch. Maybe a 555 timer<\/a> so the siren will time-out if the micro-switch remains closed. The circuit should be pretty easy to build.<\/p>\n

Of course, you’d need to live in a bunch of units (flats, townhouses, apartments, etc.), you would need the co-operation of your caretaker, and you would need just the right sort of letter boxes.<\/p>\n

To start with, your letter boxes should be fairly distant from the nearest bedroom. Flats often have a grid of letter-boxes. Often they are over-provisioned; there’s room for a spare letter box or two. <\/p>\n

Install a fake letter box with a non-existent flat number. Install the circuit inside the letter box, and arrange the microswitch to close the circuit if anything is inserted in the letterbox. Lock the letterbox shut.<\/p>\n

Then put a prominent “Addressed mail only, please!” sticker on the front, and give those tree-killing, polite-sign-ignoring, letter-box gumming, letting-thieves-know-you’re-on-holiday, leaflet-spamming bastards a rude shock.<\/p>\n

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Yes, as it happens, I am a bit grumpy today. So what?! You want to make something of it!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, as it happens, I am a bit grumpy today. So what?! You want to make something of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cathartic-rant","category-thoughts-from-the-shower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}