Ladies and gents, I present to you, the Bullet Proof Monkmobile.

As a result of increased violence against Monks in Thailand in recent years, personal protection for the jovial abstainers has ballooned into a thriving industry.

As a result, new products are being developed to protect Buddhist monks, from bulletproof vests in the traditional safron hue to motorcycle sidecars—dubbed “monkmobiles”— encased in protective glass and outfitted with a small window for receiving alms. Many of the products are devised by “Thailand’s Q” (a reference to James Bond’s gadget guy), Major Songphon Eiamboonyarith, a defense contractor who has also invented bulletproof tuk-tuks (motorcycle taxis), “umbrellas that shoot rubber bullets, bullet-proof baseball caps and a hand-held device to fire a man-sized net 30 feet (10 m) to stop a villain in his tracks.”

[Source: Eyeteeth Via: We-Make-Money-Not-Art.com]