An intellectual's approach to food entrapment...
Tony was an electronics buff... he was a radio ham, geek, and into all sorts of clever things...

There was a food thief in his place of employment. Every night packs of sweets, biscuits, crisps, whatever would go missing.

So Tony decides to teach the miscreant a lesson.

He gets a pack of Polo mints.
Removes the sweets and inner sleeve.
Slices the pack in half and removed a strip of the inner foil equal to 1 sweet.
He charges up a very powerful capacitor and inserts it down the centre of the sweets and connects the opposite ends of the capacitor to the opposing ends of the inner tube roll.
The two halves are taped back together and replaced into the outer sleeve.
The pack was left on his desk that evening.

The next morning they were gone.

There were no more thefts after that...

Mind you.. he could have been done for manslaughter, GBH, ABH and god knows what else.....
(bof, Fri 19 Sep 2008, 15:10, 2 replies)

no capacitor of that size
could do any real harm. clever idea, but a total waste of time.
(keyboardman, Mon 22 Sep 2008, 20:53, closed)

Depends upon the health of the thief....
It was enough to give them a jolt and if they had a dodgy heart is where my comment came from... But I'm no expert on such matters..
(bof, Thu 25 Sep 2008, 14:31, closed)