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Department Store Fun reprinted from TAP Magazine. By Agent 81.
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Many of the department stores in my area use a large plastic device stapled
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to the clothing as a security precaution. Several years ago, an adventurous
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friend of mine got ahold of one of thes somehow, and we took it apart. Inside
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was a heavy paper strip laminated to aluminum foil (?). As I recall, this
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paper strip was about half an inch wide and 3-1/2 inces long. When this device
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got close to a pillar or column at the exits of a store, an alarm would sound.
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My friend put this paper in his wallet, and we had a lot of fun wandering
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in and out of various stores at a local shopping center. We would enter when
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a group of people would enter, or exit with several other shoppers all
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together.. When we entered a local Sears in the shopping center in the main
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corrider of the indoor mall, a loud bell rang. A family with kids was just
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leaving. The nearest clerk ran out the entrance to look at everyone standing
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around. A plain clothes security guy appeared out of nowhere. Everyone had
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a good time. The next store we went in was also packed with people and the
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manager (?) got paranoid when the alarm went off. If you move about discreetly
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and don't wear a jacket or coat, you can liven up the busiest of stores. But
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don't go into an empty store with one of these in your wallet. That's a no-no.
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Could pleas secure a quantity of these paper strips and send them out with
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your next issue? Or offer them for sale? They can be great fun, especially in
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a Xmax shopping mob. The one we had came unlaminated and wouldn't work any
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more. This might be a great money maker for TAP. You may even want to devote
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an entire issue to this neat gadget. These strips could be left inside candy
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wrappers and in the bottem of a coke cup and placed near these detector columns
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or pillars. Put one in a plant near a pillar. The uses and fun could be end-
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less. A good senior class project would be to freak out ever alarm in every
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store so equiped, at 2 PM some Saturday afternoon when the mall is really
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packed.
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