electricity, ahhhhhh

“This may sound stupid, but I'm trying to charge my peephole so that if anybody touches it, it gives them a shock. Any Idea on how to do this? I'm thinking that a photo flash capaciter would hold enough charge, but the peephole would only serve as one pole. I'd have to somehow connect the other pole to him for it to discharge. Any ideas or suggestions?”

“you wanna do what?.. you wanna charge your peehole?”

“yea, the across the hall keeps unscrewing it. I figure one good jolt will teach him.”

“the across the hall keeps unscrewing it. I figure one good jolt will teach him.”

“So what you are saying is you wanna keeep your peephole screwed, but the your neighbor won't let you - so you're hoping he'll get a charge out of it?”

“Is this in a college dorm?”

“What is this joker doing with your peephole?

Does he take it?
And does he give it to you as well?

I believe that as long as the hot end(+) is connected to the brass(?) cylinder any peephole toucher will get juiced.
You might have to insulate the brass cylinder......use a rubber on your peephole.....so to speak.
Otherwise the door will dissipate the charge.

You should make sure that its not TOO much juice!
Those things can pack quite a kick.
You don't want to stop his heart!

Well maybe you do.

You could try it out on someone's pet (animal) first.
That way you will only be charged with squirrel-slaughter if it goes badly.”

“take the glass out of the peephole and stake it out with pepperspray... it might take some time, but you can laugh at the poor bugger when they are writhing on the floor... although anyway you go you open yourself up to some law issues”

“Just kick his ass and be done with it.”

“Why not Loctite the threads so that it can't be unscrewed?”

“I spent a couple of days washing campus police cars and painting the basement at headquarters to avoid criminal prosecution for a seemingly harmless prank.

Electricity can kill or cause severe burns!”

“Try coating it with something harmless but obnoxious so that he gets it on him when he touches it to loosen it. Or Armour All it so he can't get a grip on it.”

“Just glue it in with superglue! You don't want to be shocking anyone. Ask Birch, it's no fun.”

“Well said Tom!!”

“vaseline or crisco would be nice...”

“Install a laser fired nailgun mechanism to your peephole. I'm sure he won't mess with ya after that.”

“First call the police and contact the landlord, if any. If they can't or don't help, then give the person one warning. If this does not solve the problem, then do as roseymonster suggested. (I assume that you can prove this person's guilt.) Make us proud of your username. If you're not up to it, I recommend learning aikito judo.

A passive alternative would be to throw the thing away and plug up the hole.

Keep us informed as to your action and the results.”

“Deathmarch, if you do this, you need to immediately check your insurance and call your lawyer. The hidden defect rule will bite you big time.”

“just stick a turd in the peephole.”

“DM, DONT even proceed beyond the planning stages, Its illegal and d@mned dangerous. I get shocked periodically at work and its NOT fun. Superglue the threads.”

“use an ignition coil and a nine volt (transistor) battery, it'll get the message across. Does your door have a metal jamb? Hmmmmm. Try peeping into your peephole. Did you touch the jamb?
Happy hunting. I sure do miss college dorm life.”

“Playing games with this will just lead to other games. Perhaps that is what has happened. Are you blameless?

I recommended a straight forward approach to the problem, the police, the landlord, or a direct, extremely sincere, and convincing warning. Even bullies, who want to persevere, will usually back down to a strong threat if there is any chance that they might get hurt in the process. (I am very passive, but I felt compelled to deliver such an ultimatum to a work associate early this year. At our next meeting he apologized and declared that he would rather be my friend! I was 68 and he was 46. He is quite strong and probably could have damaaged me then, but not very likely now after ten months of aikido judo classes.)

A different solution is to move away from the situation.”

“Get one of those huge, plastic garbage cans. Fill it half full of water and lean it against his door in the middle of the night. Knock and run or let it sit until he leaves the next day.”

“glue it.

if it still gets removed, just kick his ass and be done with it.”

“OOOOOOOR,

hang a platypus bag, above your door. remove the bitevalve and seal it to the peephole, so the glass 'n' brass is the plug.

fill the platy with #&%!$. offer the guy a mop and a wet-nap, when he's done.”

“#&%!$

is

sh!t”

“then...

give him a used platypus for christmas.”

“I think a few choice words and a pointed finger poking someone's chest is in order.”

“Wait till he's gone then take some raccoon sized roadkill and put it in a trash bag with about 1/4 full of water. Hide it in his room.
This won't fix the peephole but it should be some fun revenge.”

“I would rig a mid-sized thermonuclear device up to the peephole. If he removes it, he will be vewwy, vewwy sowwy.”

“Do what they did to one guy in my dorm.

They stole his clothes and room keys while he was showering before a big exam.

He took down the shower curtain and used it as a toga and went looking for his clothes.

He stood outside the door pleading for a while but they didn't give in so he went to the next room and tried climbing from one third floor window to the room with the culprits (and his clothes).

They let him almost get there before they slammed the window closed and locked it.

He went back to the hallway and began pleading at the door again.

They opened the door, keeping the chain lock on and clamped his shower curtain toga with a pair of vice-grips.

There were three of them pulling the shower curtain into the room and he was just able to tear a small peice off to cover his essentials.

Many students passed by a nearly naked, drenched student complaining that he was late for his exam before someone lent him some clothes to go take his exam.”

“I'm thinking about that shock collar I use on my dog to keep him from barking..

my boyfriend tried it, I guess it delivers quite a nice little shock. Didn't kill him or anything though.

Ü”

“So how long are you going to leave the shock collar on your boyfriend?”

“..thinking Biz's boyfriend isn't exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer.”

“LMMFAO!!!!!!!!!!”

“Maybe it's part of his "therapy."”

“Ok, ok. Clearly DM hasn't posted yet again on this thread that leads ut to believe 2 things. One He is now in jail, and pondering with his one phone call what should he do? Call Tom Terrific, or his mom. The second of the two could be that while rigigng this, DM got zapped as well and is now lieing on his door floor, passed out.

I'm thinking use 2 9volt batteries, the zap, but 2 may do a little more, it can't hurnt that much.

I really like rads platipuse idea, its easy, doesn't hurt any one, and is funny and gets the point accross. How ever, what happens if the tube falles out when you're away, and the peephole wasn't removed, now its leaking all over your room.

WD, I uderstand that the road kill will stink, but whats the point of water?

DM good luck,”

“I'm revising the garbage can full of water idea. Take walkindude's dead raccoon and put it in the garbage can with the water. Actually 2 or 3 roadkills would be better.

60 gallons of water with a few dead animals gushing into his room will make him think twice about messing with your peephole.

This would be best to do when one of you is getting ready to move because he'll be hell bent on revenge after that.”

“Ice Tea
The water makes it worse.”

“if you can get into the offenders room, and the offender has a rolling desk chair. Pull the seat part of the chair out of the post, pour one bag of frozen shrimp in the post, replace the seat. The offender may never know that you got your revenge, but the offender will also wonder why it's low tide in his room all the time”

“Darn I thought this thread was going to be all about B.O.B. ing”

“umm, sorry to disappoint ya, mr hogonice. LOL!”

“dorm wars...joy of joys. juicing your peephole is way to complicated. the garbage can idea works wonders...trust me. OR...you can penny-lock him in his room...if you jam pennies into the space between his shut door and the jam, it can't be opened from the inside...and how would anyone prove you did it?”

“Rotten food in the ceiling panels or air ducts is a good one. Of course, you may get the wrath of some of that.

Foul stuff on his door knob could be in order.”

“Really funny thread, folks! ...except the part about Birch occasionally getting shocked.”

“I'm guessing why this dude is srewing DMs peep hole.

Rember awile back when DM was telling us how he gained control of a dudes computer because of Win 2k and was foockin with it”

“In order to shock the suspect. You need to make sure he is properly grounded. Which would involve using a conductive mat or something that can be linked to a ground of some sort. (water pipe, a line to the neutral side of a recepticle or grounding screw)
It is important to make sure the electricity passes down one side or the other. If it travels across from arm to arm. Then it travels across the heart. Which can be stopped with just a fraction of an amp.
Running an energized line and hooking it temporarly to your peep hole on the inside should be simple enough. However, if you decide to use this method, then you better put an good attorney, (or used car salesman, same difference), which ever is most handy on retainer. You are going to need him.”

“I think it would be better to use a low voltage transformer, with enough current to change the state of a latching relay. (And not be felt by a human) Which when the circuit is completed by the person touching the peep hole and being properly grounded. A signal is sent to the relay changing it's state and sending normal 120v, to a small valve, which will open and spray the (Now victim) With ink, paint, powder, what ever..

Or have it set of an alarm. And run out and kick his A$$....”

“DM, it sounds like all the electic ideas end in "find a good lawyer" or something like that. It may just be wiser to use some of the other practical jokes that have been mechened on this thread.”