Sometimes Read The Comments

Last time we noted that these can be used for more places than the “driveway” as the title suggested. We solicited suggestions in the comments for how else to use them and got a lot of responses (600+), some of them pretty good.

@lichme suggested using one to detect wabbits of the wascally variety:

If I had this, I would use it to alert me when the damn rabbit that keeps pooping in my (fenced in) back yard is back there. There are tons and tons of pellet piles of poop. I’d like to return some pellets to it.

@mamawoot recommended:

Set it up so your teenage boys get the alarm as YOU approach their room.
No awkward surprises.

And a few Mehers came up with the idea of installing one in the mailbox to alert for new mail, and @daveinwarsh actually did it! His tale:

I got this is the mail yesterday.
Damn. It doesn’t work from inside my mailbox.
I think the signal from the transmitter just won’t go through the metal box (which is maybe 150’ from the house).
So…
I opened up the transmitter, found the antenna circuit, soldered on a 8" wire, closed everything up with the antenna wire coming out of the small drain hole at the bottom.
Then, I opened up the receiver, found the existing antenna wire & placed it so it sticks out of the case on top.
I’m gonna drill a tiny hole in the back of my mailbox, pull the antenna though & hope for the best. I already tried just connecting the whole box to the antenna, but it didn’t work.
PS… I should maybe see if it’s legal to put electronic shit inside a mailbox?

But get this: Several purchasers tried to install it in their mailboxes, per the suggestions in the comments, failed, and wrote to customer support complaining that it didn’t work. Yes, we were asked to refund money because a product didn’t do what some random nutjobs (all due respect) suggested in the comments. We did not.

Did anybody else try something crazy with it the last time? Would anybody else like to try to replicate their success, fail, and blame us?