For people even more paranoid than I am, there is a custom-built bed designed to protect you from flood, fire, bullets, intruders, and biological and chemical attack. The ad copy says it's "[o]ne more step in personal home security system and Homeland Security."
Average cost: $160,000.
(Via Mark Frauenfelder at Boing Boing.)
Hmmm, is that $160,000 with the robotic arms and the tear gas launcher, or is that the price without the options?
I hadn't realized that the Onion had moved into consumer products ...
Posted by: Patrick Taylor | August 14, 2004 at 12:38 PM
The Orgasmatron will run you another 40 grand.
Posted by: Olive | August 14, 2004 at 02:51 PM
Unfortunately, it can't protect you from claustrophobia.
Posted by: Francis Volpe | August 15, 2004 at 02:16 PM
And just in case it does not work, they can bury you in it...
saves on funeral costs.
Posted by: M | August 16, 2004 at 04:23 AM
See:
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/WinnipegSun/News/2004/08/16/585348.html
Kinda stupid. Lawyers assume that other people would even consider having sex with them. Having sex with a lower life form?
Posted by: Gus | August 16, 2004 at 11:19 AM
Having sex with a lower life form?
Good one, Shakespeare.
Posted by: Mithras | August 18, 2004 at 02:06 PM