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The L.O.O.K.E.R. Gun (an awesome concept!)

posted 17 years ago by ashthecat3
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I think the LOOKER gun is one of the most ingenious imaginary sci-fi inventions ever created.
If it were real, imagine the power you could have by using one of those devices.

Your enemy has to see you to get to you.
And they have to have their eyes open to do it.
With a LOOKER gun, you have the advantage.

Heck, if a big enough LOOKER device were constructed, you could hypnotize entire enemy armies with it!
Then our troops could just go in and put them all in flex ties while they stood there "paralyzed".
When they came to, they'd be in holding cells.

Same goes for the police.
Instead of shooting a suspect with bullets or using a taser that may or may not take them down, the officer could draw his LOOKER gun and flash them.
The perp stands there and gets cuffed. When he comes to, he's in the back of a police cruiser.

What do you think of the LOOKER device?

(by the way, can any of you find a screenshot of the LOOKER gun for me online?
I'd be very greatful. I've looked and looked and looked and cannot seem to find one)

[–] stacypeoria 17 years ago

The "Looker" gun already exists. It is a police weapon designed by a company from a Homeland Security grant. Read about it here:

http://cbs13.com/national/flashlight.weapon.crowd.2.645991.html

You can probably get your screenshot of the gun in the movie from the trailer here at IMDB.

[–] Bladerunner 17 years ago

It's hardly the Looker gun! The Looker gun put you in a hypnotic state, this new light by the Homeland Security is just bright light and alternating LEDs that *can* cause you to look away and be nauseated. This isn't even *close* to the Looker gun, but it is interesting.

"...nothing is left of me, each time I see her..." - Catullus

[–] TexasGreek 17 years ago

I said it as a kid and I'll say it now: I'd use the L.O.O.K.E.R. device to screw chicks.

"A Liberal is someone who doesn't take his own side in a fight." - Lyle H. Rossiter Jr, MD

[–] buckaroobanzai50 16 years ago

"I said it as a kid and I'll say it now: I'd use the L.O.O.K.E.R. device to screw chicks"

That would make you a rapist.

[–] TexasGreek 16 years ago

But what if she was already attracted to me?

[–] buckaroobanzai50 16 years ago

Have you heard of date rape? It makes no difference wether the gal likes you, or you've been going out for one year. If she hasn't consented, you're in trouble.

It would be fun to pinch a few bums though.

[–] baphomet1313 16 years ago

"It would be fun to pinch a few bums though."

Sir or Madam,
I happen to work with the homeless and found your comment to be in rather poor taste. Firstly, they are "homeless", not "Bums" as you referred to them. Second, why on earth would you want to go around pinching homeless people? They already have a hard enough time as it is without some troublemaker gleefully hypnotizing them so one can get one's pleasure assaulting (yes, assaulting) them. This is just sick and morally reprehensible.

Don't worry squire, just a bit o fun,
Baphomet1313

[–] MovieKnut 11 years ago

But what if she was already attracted to me?

Then wouldn't she want to screw you?

Unless it's consentual, it would still be rape.

You can't palm off a second-rater on me. You gotta remember I was in the pink!

[–] Caractacus23 9 years ago

"That would make you a rapist."

No one's interested in your moralizing, Scoldilocks.

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[–] chris-rogers2 17 years ago

Th concept (though not the technology) represented by the gun was in fact used way back in 1953 in the British SF novel The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester (nothing to do with the Stallone movie of similar name).

In the book, the protagonist obtains a tiny explosive capsule which when released "ionized the Rhodopsin - the visual purple in the retina of the eye - blinding the victim and abolishing his perception of space and time".

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[–] projectcyclops 16 years ago

Well I'm sold. What happens if you shoot it at a guy? I assume he turns into a skinny, waif like meth addict with a tight top and nipple piercings who begs for daddy to give him some girth. If the guy is old enough I suppose he would change into a purple wig wearing drag queen with a hip flask in one pocket, a switchblade in the other and a lot of bad memories.

But perhaps I'm going too far?

[–] darrell4562000 16 years ago

"I want what Eggbert is Smoking!!"

[–] Trevor-5 15 years ago

I'm not sure if you were joking with your post (after all, sarcasm doesn't translate well to the written word) however, baphomet1313 was clearly using "bums" in the sense of the British slang for "butts".

[–] baphomet1313 15 years ago

Yeah, I got that.... I was just bored and having a bit of fun!

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[–] scribe1270 12 years ago

It reminds me of the light that Tommy Lee Jones used some yrs later in MIB.

[–] denise1234 11 years ago

I agree -- awesome concept :)

"I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book." ~ Bradbury