Staple or glue a bunch of trash onto a moving blanket, and use that as camouflage in sketchy neighborhoods.
Posted by Berkamin@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 12 comments
Tired of people breaking into your car to take things, while you're not able to properly hide things in the back seat? Drape a moving blanket covered in trash over the stuff you want to hide. People who might otherwise break in will just think your car is filled with trash and that some depressed and mentally ill person lives there.
All it takes is a moving blanket, and a bunch of chip bags, candy wrappers, fast food containers, empty drink cans, cigarette butts, used brown paper bags, rumpled tissue paper, and other random debris which you attach to the blanket using hot glue or staples. Just make sure your coverage is complete enough where nobody can see the blanket underneath the layer of trash. Drape this over whatever's in your back seat.
chortle-guffaw@reddit
Not a crazy idea. Stick to trash that won't smell.
Berkamin@reddit (OP)
Yes, definitely! Trash that smells would make this a miserable form of camouflage to use.
Yummucummy@reddit
But stinky trash means you could hide from blind people aswell!
Packman2021@reddit
garbage ghillie suits are already a thing, and are incredibly effective in the right spot
Yummucummy@reddit
Ghillie suits in general blows my mind. You could stand 10 meters from me, I turn around and you move half a meter, and when I turn back around I can't see you. I don't have the best eyesight, but it can be pretty damn effective
ScienceOverNonsense2@reddit
So you’ve seen my car. Mostly nothing under the packing blanket though. Ever.
alaskaguyindk@reddit
My buddy said he did this but with real trash. He got given a few of weed plants and his car was a pigsty (mcdonalds bags, cig butts, half rotten juice bottles, ext.) so he just laid the plants in the backseat and threw trash on them and drove home. Well he got stopped and given a ticket but the cop didn’t look twice at the trash and just gave him a ticket for some traffic violation.
The weed plants died very quickly under his care but still, apparently got away with it.
GypsySnowflake@reddit
Does that actually work? I would think they’d be incentivized to break in, because there could be something good mixed in with all the trash.
cletusvanderbiltII@reddit
Do you need a periscope?
schmeckendeugler@reddit
Certified genius crazy
lambofgun@reddit
but then you have to drive around with a trash quilt
Berkamin@reddit (OP)
Yes. But if the trash is not too bulky, or the bulky stuff is limited, you could theoretically roll it up and compact it.
I don't think anyone would resort to this unless they really had to.