vending machine to fight crime

[lastwish]

My prof was telling us about this japanese invention. Basically, its an outfit that a woman can wear when she's walking home alone at night. If she senses that someone (possibly a thief) is following her...she can then change into a vending machine outfit that will camouflage her from criminals. This was invented to combat crime in Japan despite that its a nation with the lowest crime rate. What do you think?


can anyone see the image attached? If you can't..tell me.

Oh, and here's the article for it->[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/20/world/asia/20japan.html[/url]

[1averagejoe]

Unless the person following them is drunk...I don't think it's going to work. LOL

[vashti]

The criminals in Japan would have to be a lot dumber than the ones in the U.S. to fall for such silliness.

[DoesntMatter]

"Rape.... it's like saying hello in Japan"

[ecojeanne]

My prof was telling us about this japanese invention. Basically, its an outfit that a woman can wear when she's walking home alone at night. If she senses that someone (possibly a thief) is following her...she can then change into a vending machine outfit that will camouflage her from criminals. This was invented to combat crime in Japan despite that its a nation with the lowest crime rate. What do you think?


can anyone see the image attached? If you can't..tell me.

Oh, and here's the article for it->[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/20/world/asia/20japan.html[/url]

tbh, i do think it would work if a bad person was chasing someone, coz they are frantically looking for a person and wouldn't notice that the person being chased had changed their appearance. i know looking at the pic it's obvious, but you may be running away from a crazed lunatic not a reasonable or necessarily intelligent person. i think it could work in certain circumstances.

[Lipp]

Just no......

[Junket]

tbh, i do think it would work if a bad person was chasing someone, coz they are frantically looking for a person and wouldn't notice that the person being chased had changed their appearance. i know looking at the pic it's obvious, but you may be running away from a crazed lunatic not a reasonable or necessarily intelligent person. i think it could work in certain circumstances.

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They're probably walking right behind them.

You're kidding right?

And where the hell would you keep it?

[ecojeanne]

no i'm sayin if a girl is being chased at night she could quite possibly hide and get away with it, i've no idea how the setting up or carrying it works. if it took 2 seconds to do then i could see it working at night maybe.....no i'm not kidding haha security for women is a real worry and if there is a chance it could help women then i'm all for it. not all nasty crimminals are that clever...so you never know

[doppelgaenger]

That is the most self-humiliating thing I've seen all day.

[vashti]

They don't need it in Japan. Their crime rate is pretty low. It would make a decent Halloween costume, though.

[misombra]

i need one of those.

[Gribble]

But what do you do if the rapist is thirsty?

[Lipp]

Had to carry a personal alarm device on me when working nights on a job I had, actually not bad, sure I never needed to use it but as long as you're in a populated area you can expect someone to hear it and be there within a minute rather than getting mugged and beaten up for ten minutes before anyone might've noticed.

This vending machine suit wont work since it obviously takes a bit of time to get up (except for the one-side-only one, which is crap anyways), requires you to wear a specific type of clothing each time, depends on where you are at (who the hell would be fooled by a vending machine standing alone in the middle of a park?), and still always assumes that you notice the person following you, but that they still cant be too close (need time to set it up) and still doesn't do a thing when things go down.

[Illusional]

i'd buy that thing just so i can touch the passing by women.

raverboy

[Mish]

No, you all don't get it. The criminals in Japan are really polite and they'll look away while she's changing.