Posted on 10/02/2019 6:35:35 AM PDT by w1n1
Checkout this trespassing hunter encounters an improvised booby trap.
The video below displays a creative way of fending off a trespassing hunter. The property owner rigged up a tripwire attached to a paint bomb. Once triggered the paint sprays all over the trespasser.
The trespassing hunter spoke out in an interview with Deer and Deer Hunting.
Details about the incident were made clear, and thanks to the article and investigative work from Deer and Deer Hunting’s editor Dan Schmidt, we now know that it occurred in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
Leroy Ogin, 73, told Deer and Deer Hunting that he had traveled that same path for over 60+ years to his hunting spot, which was an old logging road. He did not intend on hunting on the property.
He claimed to have never had an issue with the landowner, and was never asked to refrain from traveling through what he acknowledged was private property.
Ogin also explained that the device that blasted him with paint was connected to an airbag mechanism, which triggered a switch tied to a suspended wire.
"I thought I was shot with a gun," Ogin told D&DH. He also said the paint, which was red, ruined his hunting apparel, hat and gun. Read the rest of trespassers paint bomb.
Leroy Ogin, 73, told Deer and Deer Hunting that he had traveled that same path for over 60+ years to his hunting spot, which was an old logging road. He did not intend on hunting on the property.
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IIRC, typical state laws allow people to continue to use traditional paths. He could probably sue the landowner.
He could, but it sounds to me like the landowner is someone best left alone.
On the video it shows 2013 so this is a 6 year old story?
Happened two years ago.
Oops...saw the 2 year date in the Twitter. You’re right...video shows 2013.
Still a good one though.
This is the typical “spring gun” case - where you set up a gun to automatically shoot someone if they open a door, step on a pad, etc. It is HIGHLY illegal - because there is no human judgment involved, and no danger to human life. The landowner is in big trouble if someone wants to make it for him - notwithstanding that the device in question was not lethal, nor intended to be so. It could have caused a serious injury, and it could have resulted in this older man having a heart attack.
It is NOT a good idea to do this kind of thing. Don’t like trespassers? Fine, no one does. Set up cameras and then pass the footage on to the police or rangers. Be there and make a citizen’s arrest, and wait for the cops to show up. Or, in this case, simply talk to the person in question. This guy was pretty harmless, and had no ill will at all.
I see both sides of this.
If the old guy stopped to talk at some point and told me the history, I’d tell him, by all means, use the path.
But if I have a problem with trespassers poaching game, I’d be making efforts to ID them. The paint trap sounds like fun antics and is tempting (I’ve seen videos of setting these up before) but if something freakish happens and you have a serious injury, it’s going to bit you in the arse. Seems like there are things you can do with cameras, trail variety and others, to more passively deal with trespassers.
IIRC, typical state laws allow people to continue to use traditional paths. He could probably sue the landowner.
Believe it or not, I only see those laws out west/west coast
I live in NJ, we don’t have that law, in order to have a claim on someone else’s property, you need to be paying the property taxes for 20 years and have a need for the property, like a shared driveway. Just because you trespassed for 60+ years, doesn’t mean you have any rights to the property. Not in Jersey anyways.
If he doesn’t steal something, he recycles something. Or he recycles stolen something.
This has nothing to do with paintball.
I’ve always wondered why people don’t use paintball guns against red light cameras.
This is why we bought a bunch of no-trespassing signs. It’s not just about keeping people off your property. It’s about protecting yourself legally.
I think there was a case in Phoenix a decade or so ago where a guy’s small warehouse was repeatedly getting broken into. He set up a shotgun triggered by the door opening and, sure enough, the bad guy entered, and his head was filled with buckshot.
The building owner went to prison.
If you are going to do something like that you need to pre-prepare for a place to get rid of the body and evidence (blood).
Perfect bust! Great video of the perp, many would have done worse. Did he claim new underwear too? No doubt soiled himself.
Does Ogin have any proof he's traveled the path for 60+ years or are we just supposed to take his word for it?
Booby traps are almost always illegal. Which is too bad, if you ask me.
Or against speeders in residential areas. A number of years ago, we had serious issues with a significant number of lead-footed drivers blazing through our residential area. Local cops said they couldn’t monitor it all the time to catch people. Writing tickets didn’t seem to change behavior. I told them if they would give me a radar gun and a paintball gun loaded with neon colored paintballs, I could solve their problem. Obviously, the threat of a ticket wasn’t working, so let’s see how speeders like wearing the proverbial scarlet letter on the side of their car.
Heh, good idea!
I remember when I sold real estate in Seattle I had a few hard rules based on the idea that the three most important things in real estate are location, location, location:
1. Never buy a home on a street with a painted line down the middle (unless you have a really long driveway)
2. Never buy a home on a street with speed bumps.
“If you are going to do something like that you need to pre-prepare for a place to get rid of the body and evidence (blood).”
The guy may have a cell phone on him that tracks his whereabouts constantly. He may have an accomplice who can testify (and will, to plea down a felony murder charge to something less onerous) as to what happened. Also, if there is even a slight suspicion that there is a crime scene on YOUR property, then you will not only NOT get away with your cover-up, but will have extra time tacked on to your prison sentence for obstruction of justice (and, likely, lying to the police).
Just don’t do anything as stupid as this. The earliest cases on this in this country were in the early 1800s, and there is not a recorded case of the result being any different than the owner of the property being civilly and criminally liable for the results of setting up a spring gun.
Now, catch the SOB in a net that holds him nicely about 10-15 feet off of the ground for the police to come and collect - that’d be just fine.
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