Would you believe that harmless fog is now being used to thwart robbers? It confounds them and they can’t see through it, so they leave. Stores in New Zealand are now using the new technology successfully.
According to The Daily Mail,
CCTV footage has surfaced of a pair of would-be robbers smashing the door of a service station before a fog cannon is deployed, sending dense white clouds of mist billowing towards them.
The intruders can be seen fleeing the Mobil service station in New Zealand’s Auckland at 3.10am on December 23, evidently mystified by the revolutionary crime prevention tool, reports NZ Herald.
The device works by filling rooms with dense fog in a matter of seconds, and while harmless to humans it renders those in its path blind until the room is ventilated.
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The cannons cost up to $5000NZD to install and have been popular in petrol stations and luxury fashion stores like Prada and Louis Vuitton.
So simple yet so effective. Watch the video below of two wannabe robbers encountering the fog after they break the glass on a convenience store door, then are forced to run off.