Talking cars
“You’re too close. Back away.”
I had taken a short cut between two cars in a parking lot and this sharp warning had come from a sports model. The other car was more polite; it did not say anything.
Now we have talking cars to contend with. Apparently if I had stayed next to the sports car a piercing alarm would have been triggered. You can be assured I departed with alacrity.
Car break-ins now make up an important portion of crime statistics so automobile manufacturers are designing sophisticated security devices. In the case of my car, it cannot be unlocked with a coat hanger. That’s more of a handicap for me than any burglar. Now if I lock my keys inside I have to go looking for help.
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I wonder if car technology might be of assistance to some of our Prairie stockmen. Rustlers these days target cattle in remote pastures, round them up and use cattle liners to move stolen bovines long distances from the scene of the crime.
Suppose when the thieves open the pasture gate or cut the fence to let their liner through, a loud voice bellows at them:
“Back off, Sergeant Preston is on his way.”
If this doesn’t deter them, it could be followed by a multi-decibel alarm that could be heard for five miles and would send the herd into a pell-mell stampede. This should attract attention from neighbors and the vigilantes would come bouncing over the horizon.
It might take you two weeks to get your herd calmed down to the point where you can handle them again, but at least someone else isn’t selling them in an auction mart 200 miles away.
