I like it. I've been wanting to mess with building a fairly serious raygun for a while. Now to go to some scrap stores and see if I can get my hands on surplus garbage for raygunning.

Thanks for considering me a criminal suspect before I've ever been convicted or even suspected of a crime, Mr. FBI! I'm sure glad you've got all of my identifying information! Here's hoping it isn't misplaced or misused as it has been with worrying frequency in Britain (the modern Panopticon police state).

I'm sure that such a database would never be misused as it has in other countries, IE http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3308576.ece

You're right, the barrel is still a little too much a clarinet to be taken seriously. However, the handle and the "firing mechanism" are both superlative. I mean really impressive.

I'm trying not to get my hopes up here, but this is the best thing I've heard since Terry Pratchett's Alzheimer's hit the news last month.

Why are they dressed like maids again? This is a for-pay service, so what's stopping the guy from just hiring more maids/cars? Is the $57/hour pricetag cheaper than other taxi services? I can't remember the last time somebody said "Dang, too many customers. I'll have to stop making all this money."

Like #1 said , if you want a taxi for the disabled and no maid fetishists, just lose the maid costumes. If you want a taxi service for people that like cute maids driving them around, keep the costumes and hire more people.

The real moral of the story: Move to Japan, hire young ladies, buy costumes and cars, Profit. No missing magic step.

The best part is that the state I currently live in (South Carolina) is considering laws that restrict where people on the sex offender list can live. So in the end you have a wonderful place where people arrested for public urination (or fornication with a bicycle or what have you) have to live in a permanent ghetto.

Add to that the fact that local church groups open new "worship centers" near adult clubs/bookstores to force them to shut down or move and you have a permanent ghetto that could be NIMBY-ed to hell and back.