Anti-Mugging "Skirt" Transforms Would-Be Victim Into Soda Machine

What’s the deal with people leaving racist comments on news articles having nothing to do with race? I feel like the anonymity of the internet makes the racists out here feel like they can write anything. Yes, coon is a racist term, all muggers aren’t black, and you don't need to live in an urban area to be a victim of violent crime. If anything white collar, non violent, crime has many more repercussions to many more people than a mugging in New York or Tokyo.

You people are idiots for automatically assuming that "coon up a tree" was a racist comment. It sickens me that a common southern term refering to how fast a raccoon gets his butt up a tree when being chased by coonhounds has been misinterpreted as being politically incorrect. I think that people are just looking for reasons to be offended. Yes, "coon" can be used as a racial slur, but this doesn't mean that every time someone says coon they are being racist. I hardly ever say raccoon when refering to the animal. Whats next, us having to rename coonhounds raccoonhounds just so people don't misinterpret? Grow up people.

I think this is hilarious. I love Japanese inventions like this! It reminds me of something out of an anime or something. :) I want one just to make my friends laugh. lol

Peace.

It's really creepy how a few ugly comments can turn a cute story into something so sinister. Perhaps these posters should turn their talents towards carving up jack o'lanterns.

Where did she go?

haha, i'm just wondering what would happen if a mugger's like chasing you, you duck into a dark alley, do your thing, they see the soda machine and suddenly realize they are thirsty...

but i do agree that this is a good gag gift.

Good luck on it working with violent criminals but I could see it being used in antisocial ways very effectively -- when you're sitting on a plane and don;t want to talk you could hide inside your soda machine. Or if you;re polite and don't want to inflict your cell phone conversation on anyone you could have your own private phone booth. Or if you don't want to have sex that night, hide hide away. Oh those clever Japanese!

neoterranova is incorrect. Everyone CAN learn to execute self-defense. People in wheelchairs and with other disabilities can even study martial arts if they so choose! The biggest thing about self-defense is learning to be aware of both your surroundings and your own abilities and weaknesses and use your head to help you avoid the situation or handle it if you can't avoid it.

Many times attackers look for the easy target, preferably someone who is distracted by their cell phone or ipod or even chatting with their friends to the point they are not fully aware of what's going on around them.

Someone who is aware of an impending attack in time to successfully deploy this skirt is probably aware enough to think of another avoidance and/or defense as well!

If people are curious how this would work, the idea is that you're running away from the criminal in an urban setting. You don't duck into an alley, but you do turn a corner and pop the soda machine disguise immediately after turning it. Presumably, the average hoodlum wouldn't look at a soda machine twice, but instead try and get into the closest building that their intended victim was likely to duck.

Not 100% effective, but ingenious enough to give the young woman enough time to grab her pepperspray, taser, or prepare herself for hand to hand combat and have the element of surprise on her side instead of the attacker's.

Maybe an "out of order" sign on it.

They should've made that skirt flip into a cop outfit. Or a judge's robe. The soda machine idea is just silly. It'll probably just make the mugger thirsty. Looks like the coin return spot is just about boob height, too. Imagine the would be mugger doesn't get his soda and reaches up the drop slot for it and the machine laughs like it's being tickled. Japanese people are CRAZY!!!

It would work if you happened to be about a block ahead of the criminal.

Rich....eat a lot of lead paint as a baby??

What happens if the mugger suddenly gets thirsty? She better be hiding a soda and some change in there too!