Martha Lake (15030 Larch Way N)
This photo explained:
My friend Dave wasn't home so I went inside. It was dark out. He was replacing the sheet rock on one kitchen wall where it had been damaged by his crutches in some sort of altercation. There was new sheet rock on the kitchen side, but none on the laundry room side.
I had a quartz-halogen headlight bulb with a burned out low beam, but the high beam filament was intact. The bulb was for a non sealed-beam headlight where the reflector and bulb are separate. The bulb is about 1 1/2" x 1/2" and has a small, extremely bright filament.
I got the battery charger and hung the cables over a wire in the wall on the laundry room side, suspending the bulb in line with the seam between the two pieces of sheet rock on the kitchen wall. On the kitchen side I taped two pieces of cardboard to make the light coming through the wall approximate a point source (important for a distinct shadow).
I then took a wire coat hanger, inserted it in the seam, bent it to place it in line with the light source, placed a piece of cardboard on it for a platform and set a small plastic toy soldier holding a rifle on it. This made an impressive life-sized shadow of an armed man on the living room curtain. I then left the scene.
When Dave's older brother Paul came home he saw the shadow on the curtains, thought that Dave had flipped his lid and was afraid to go inside so he left. Incidents such as this were fairly commonplace there. When Dave got home he went inside not seeing anything out of the ordinary in having an armed stranger in the house.
The point of this story is, well there isn't any point really, but you might be able to use a variation on this to protect yourself or your friends from burglary.
Martha Lake (15030 Larch Way N)
This photo explained:
My friend Dave wasn't home so I went inside. It was dark out. He was replacing the sheet rock on one kitchen wall where it had been damaged by his crutches in some sort of altercation. There was new sheet rock on the kitchen side, but none on the laundry room side.
I had a quartz-halogen headlight bulb with a burned out low beam, but the high beam filament was intact. The bulb was for a non sealed-beam headlight where the reflector and bulb are separate. The bulb is about 1 1/2" x 1/2" and has a small, extremely bright filament.
I got the battery charger and hung the cables over a wire in the wall on the laundry room side, suspending the bulb in line with the seam between the two pieces of sheet rock on the kitchen wall. On the kitchen side I taped two pieces of cardboard to make the light coming through the wall approximate a point source (important for a distinct shadow).
I then took a wire coat hanger, inserted it in the seam, bent it to place it in line with the light source, placed a piece of cardboard on it for a platform and set a small plastic toy soldier holding a rifle on it. This made an impressive life-sized shadow of an armed man on the living room curtain. I then left the scene.
When Dave's older brother Paul came home he saw the shadow on the curtains, thought that Dave had flipped his lid and was afraid to go inside so he left. Incidents such as this were fairly commonplace there. When Dave got home he went inside not seeing anything out of the ordinary in having an armed stranger in the house.
The point of this story is, well there isn't any point really, but you might be able to use a variation on this to protect yourself or your friends from burglary.