Posted on 12/01/2019 9:31:41 AM PST by BenLurkin
On Thursday evening, the Van Buren Police Department dispatched officers to the home of Ronald Cyr, 65, who reported that he had been shot, according to officials.
Officer Chandler Madore and the Van Buren Ambulance Service arrived to provide medical assistance to Cyr, and discovered that the front door of Cyr's home had been "outfitted with a device designed to fire a handgun should anyone attempt to enter the door," according to a press release.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
A successful test of the device.
Always deactivate the booby trap before going to the bar for a few.
You can bet he would have loved to have gotten a “Do Over” on that one.
Death Moosheen
.
Darwin is Smiling.
He was 65, odds are that he sired children.
# 1 on the Darwin Award list.
Seems so.
The talk around the
Christmas Tree will
Be rather Hushed in
That Family this year.
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”
I think the correct term for this is “spring gun”.
he shoulda hired a professional booby trap tester- instead of trying to save money and do it himself
Was his location prone to break ins?
Good thing he didn’t use a shotgun or he’d REALLY be dead.
Way up north, not a lot there. Either sick of being burglarized by meth-heads, or had a few pot plants.
First, the good news: the booby trap worked.
Now, the bad news ...
Where in Maine? Did I miss that fact in the story (it’s entirely possible).
don’t know- coulda just been a paranoid person-
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