OK, to start things off I think it's fair to say that I am a Halloween enthusiast. In 2007 I built a rather large coffin with a lid that opened and closed using a pneumatic cylinder. Inside this coffin, which I stood on its end, was a skeleton that was sitting on a toilet. This prop was not designed to scare anyone. It was an amusing little prop that was there to entertain. This year I decided to change things up a little bit so I added sound to the coffin and had the skeleton stand up and talk when the door opened. After the skelton said what he had to say, he would sit back down on the toilet and the door would close. So, I get this thing all assembled and programmed and called the wife to view my creation and give me her opinion. So, I drigger the coffin, the door opens, the skeleton stands up and starts talking, he sits back down and just when the door is about ready to close the wife (Kim) decides it would be a good time to step into the path of the door. There is no stopping the door! The pneumatic cylinder is going to close! The door closes, squishing the wife and breaking the wood the hinges are attached store snapping the door off! The good news, Kim was uninjured! The restomb has now been repaired and aside from possible changing the sounds comming from the prop it's about finished. Here is the prop as viewed on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_jcruU3Vk8
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