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Post by joebill on Jun 18, 2020 15:54:16 GMT
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Post by Tim Horton on Jun 18, 2020 18:35:11 GMT
Had a neighbor one time who had a lot of trouble with trespassers driving into a field. He "lost" a section of spike harrow that fell upside down in side the fence in the driveway. It was hard to see in the tall grass... Opps...
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Post by farmrbrown on Jun 20, 2020 2:11:09 GMT
Definitely one of those "Now how did THAT get there?" moments if questioned or deposed.........  |
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Post by DEKE on Jun 20, 2020 18:23:51 GMT
Those were called caltrops in the age of warfare on horse back. They were used sort of like land mines, throw down hundreds of them where you expected the cavalry to charge and it not only broke the charge, but also the horse had to be killed. Very brutal, very effective.
You would not want to have anything like that in use prior to a TEOTWAWKI situation because you would surely be charged with some sort of crime if a person or animal were injured, even if they are trespassing. It's like the proverbial trap with a shotgun that fires when the door is opened. Even if the door opener is breaking and entering, you can still be charges with murder.
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Jun 20, 2020 18:38:26 GMT
Yep, other than a Whoopee Cushion, very few booby traps are legal.
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Post by joebill on Jun 23, 2020 0:51:18 GMT
I had cops in to inspect a sort of booby trap I set in a section of ducting in my shop in Tucson long ago. It was a rod across the middle of the vertical duct that would revolve and had rows of 3" concrete nails welded to it, ends sharpened to needle points.
Duct had formerly had a swamp cooler on top of it and was open to the roof and open through the ceiling of my shop, big enough for a smallish guy to get through before I set the trap.
Cop said if it was visible in a flashlight beam from the roof it should be OK, even if I found some guy hanging by the spikes some morning when I opened. I did not find THAT, but I DID find blood on the floor underneath it and a bunch of tracks and rub marks inside the duct where the guy had gone down until he felt himself getting stabbed in the feet and legs as he tried to fit into the gap between the bar and the side of the duct. Kind of a mess in there. Mine was the only shop in the strip they did not get in to, but not long after I took some window damage from slingshots and those little steel balls. It was worth it to imagine that punk hanging from his finger tips and trying to climb up away from those spikes, his rubber soled shoes slipping on that steel surface.
In the case of caltrops, I think I would just add them to the "no trespassing-----DANGER!" sign...as in "tire damage and wounds to the feet and legs likely of you cross this fence! and show a picture of the caltrops. I can hide them well enough to get a tire even if they are looking for them, and local juries mostly support local land owners who have not done anything wrong....Joe
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