from the "modern living" dept.

The only thing scarier than this:



or this:

(h/t OLOPH)

is this:

What you see in the photo above is, believe it or not, a ray gun. Yep: an honest to goodness people zapper. You can't make this sort of thing up. The Daily Mail has the story here.

I can easily imagine someone hiding these devices in the bushes (get it?) near polling stations on U.S. election day 2008.

Democrat? Zap!
Libertarian? Zaaap!
Independent? Zaaapppppp!
Immigrant? Zzzzaaaappppp!
Anti-war? Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzaaaaaaaaaaaaapppppppppppppppppppppppp!! Zap! Zap! Zap! And one more for the troops! ZAP!

Yeah! Democracy!

ZAAAAPPPPPP!!!!!!!