From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 13:52:14 +0800
To: jimbell@pacifier.com (jim bell)
Subject: Re: Responding to Pre-dawn Unannounced Ninja Raids
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jim bell wrote:
> At 03:49 PM 7/19/96 -0500, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
> >>      I may be a little nuts, but does it strike anyone else that a good 
> >> self defense weapon against ninja raids would be a hand gernade? 
> >
> >Maybe not even a little:)
> >
> >I suggest wiring an anti-tank mine to your door every night. If 
> >ninjas break in, everyone goes to hell. No need to wake up and be
> >alert in sleep -- all will be done automatically. So before that
> >ninja raid you will sleep better.
> 
> I've had a substantially better idea.  Hang carbon-fiber bundles from the 
> ceiling, which are charged to about 10,000 volts when an intrusion is 
> detected.  They'll glom onto anything conductive within their range, and 
> anyone with the bad fortune to be breaking into the house at that moment 
> _might_ live to regret it.  (resistors could be added to limit the current 
> to non-fatal but exceedingly painful levels.

It the voltage is 10000 volts, it is always fatal, right? And if you set
good enough resistors, then the voltage for the human body itself would
be much less than 10000V -- most of the voltage will be taken by resistors
themselves.

Right?

	- Igor.