Maine man dies after being shot by his own booby trap

nbc ^ | 12/01/2019 | Kalhan ROsenblato

[Pearls Before Swine]

A successful test of the device.

[Pollard]

Always deactivate the booby trap before going to the bar for a few.

[dfwgator]

You can bet he would have loved to have gotten a “Do Over” on that one.

[Big Red Badger]

Death Moosheen
.
Darwin is Smiling.

[dfwgator]

He was 65, odds are that he sired children.

[GoldenPup]

# 1 on the Darwin Award list.

[PROCON]

[KevinB]

[Ron H.]

A successful test of the device.

Seems so.

[Big Red Badger]

The talk around the
Christmas Tree will
Be rather Hushed in
That Family this year.

[treetopsandroofs]

A surprising number of people seem to not know that:

1) The Darwin Award “rules” and;
2) The “Darwin Awards” are as fraudulent as the 44th “president”

[Wally_Kalbacken]

I think the correct term for this is “spring gun”.

[Bob434]

he shoulda hired a professional booby trap tester- instead of trying to save money and do it himself

[Oldexpat]

Was his location prone to break ins?

[Do_Tar]

Good thing he didn’t use a shotgun or he’d REALLY be dead.

[Fido969]

Way up north, not a lot there. Either sick of being burglarized by meth-heads, or had a few pot plants.

[IronJack]

Good news and bad news.

First, the good news: the booby trap worked.
Now, the bad news ...

[RightField]

Where in Maine? Did I miss that fact in the story (it’s entirely possible).

[Bob434]

don’t know- coulda just been a paranoid person-