The burglar alarm you might not want next door

How to solve the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan? More troops? An end to opium farming? Or Hanif Molavizadeh's zany solution?

Take one Kalashnikov, one wooden box and a cell phone. A little bit of remote detonation and hey presto! You have your own makeshift burglar alarm.

The local engineer has been hailed as an innovative inventor. But his next door neighbours aren't quite as convinced:

The 60-year-old inventor says that last month, he forgot to unload the gun while testing the alarm. A bullet broke a window and ricocheted off a neighbor's wall.

Still the mastermind has not been deterred. His next project? A car alarm that emits an electric shock. What could possibly go wrong with that?

Alice Fishburn

Comments

[David Moss]

This reminds me of the South African device fitted to cars about 10 years ago. Any car thief who failed to turn it off before breaking into the car found himself deterred by the flamethrowers mounted under the chassis.