Shall We Not Revenge?
Scaring the pants off em' makes for good laugh!

It was a comeuppance long past due. For years Tim’s little brother Robbie had played every imaginable practical joke on him, and now Tim was out to even the score in one fell swoop.

In order to get back at Robbie, Tim meticulously set up his sweetest of all revenge, by rigging their house using ActiveHome and XCam2 from X10. His first step was to install an XCam2 camera in Robbie’s room so that he could monitor his brother’s reactions, and ensure that his timing was absolutely perfect.

One night while the two of them were alone in the house, Tim remotely turned on Robbie’s CD player to a "boy-band" song at a very high volume. (This was especially evil, as Robbie hates boy-bands.) After Robbie turned off the CD, Tim bided his time for a few minutes until everything went back to normal. Then he set off a portable CD player that he had hidden in Robbie’s room, and cued the CD to a scary groan. When Robbie looked under the bed, Tim had set up a motion detector that then activated a mechanical hand that seemed as if it was trying to reach out and grab Robbie’s arm. As Robbie ran out of the room, another motion sensor placed right outside the door shut off all the lights in the house, and turned on a strobe light.

Robbie did what he usually did when he was frightened, and ran into his parent’s room. (The parent’s room being a place of security.) But when he opened the door, a cardboard cutout of Dracula dropped down from the ceiling, confronting Robbie as he entered the room. In such panic, Robbie ran into Tim’s room, where Tim ended the charade, and told Robbie that it was all him.

I guess you might say, "Revenge is a sort of wild justice."

Products mentioned in article: ActiveHome , XCam2 , Motion Detector

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