security company using Kevin McCallister's strategy to protect vulnerable people home alone

[JosephDredd]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...otect-home-alone-japanese-women-idUSKBN1HS09E

Shadow-boxing tough guy should protect home-alone Japanese women

Behind the apartment’s curtain, a tough guy is boxing, throwing left and right hooks and jabs, and lunging forward, enough to make any passing criminal think twice before breaking in.

The image is nothing more than a projected shadow but one that a Japanese apartment management company hopes will help protect and reassure women living by themselves.

Still in the prototype stage, “Man on the Curtain” uses a smartphone connected to a projector to throw a moving shadow of a man doing various energetic activities onto a curtain.

Customers can choose from a dozen different scenarios that show their man boxing, doing karate and even swinging a baseball bat.

To mix things up a bit, the man can calm down and do more mundane things like get dressed, chill out with a guitar or even do some vacuuming around the flat.

The system was developed for security at buildings run by Leopalace21 Corp,, said Keiichi Nakamura, manager of the firm’s advertising department.

Queries from the public prompted the company to think bigger and consider offering it for sale. But some people have had doubts about how effective it might be, said Nakamura.

In particular, criminals might sooner or later work out that a “man behind the curtain” who spends his whole time shadow boxing, actually means a woman is alone inside.

“If projecting a shadow makes a woman an easy target by showing criminals there’s nobody home, that would put the cart before the horse,” he said.

“So we’d like to commercialize it once we add variety, such as releasing a new video every day.”

This might work for awhile, but I wonder if this is more of a realty gimmick than a real service.

Japan has unique problems. It might be the only country on earth that doesn't have enough crime for its police department to handle so now the police are inventing crimes to solve. It certainly makes me question how big the problem of vulnerable people attached in their homes is. (Full disclosure: I know jack shit about Japan except for news articles and Long Long Man gummy sagas.)

Videos of the system in action at the link.

 

[jk7707]

Kevin did it better.

Also I'm pretty sure one of the silhouettes was swinging a baseball bat. Completely believable.

 

[Swing]

I'd feel so silly using something like this that I'd have to go to the extreme to justify it. Doing karate or using a baseball bat? Nah, gimme a projection practicing larping with a sword and shield or a pole arm. Or maybe just two absurdly fat people having vigorous sex.

 

[JosephDredd]

Kevin did it better.

Also I'm pretty sure one of the silhouettes was swinging a baseball bat. Completely believable.

Lol at Kevin in that gif. He's really going to town.

 

[Fawlty]

lol at this convoluted rape fantasy exhibitionism

Is there any perversion the Japanese won't sell?