Replies

You probably would have ended up being charged with aggravated assault or attempted murder

Or not. When that dumba** kid rode into my tiger pit (a 3 foot deep concrete lined pit designed specifically to catch and forcibly dismount dirtbike riders coming up my road) his dad first tried to have me arrested and then tried to sue. In both cases, he had no case because the traps were set inside not only my property line, but my gated fenceline. That particular kid had actually knocked my brand new $300 gate over and gunned it up my road without knowing that there was an open trap ahead.

Both the police and the judge said the same thing...they were forcibly tresspassing, and the boys injuries directly resulted from that. I could have strung Saran Wrap, concertina, or a flipping piano wire across the road, and it's unlikely that I would have been held any more responsible. These people were destroying my property and had the attitude that they had the "right" to ride across my land because there was BLM land and legal riding roads on the other side. As the sherrif put it, I can put any blocade across my land that I want, and if they're dumb enough to cross my fenclines and run into them, that's their problem. I just can't shoot at them.

Luckily, the alterations that I put in place seem to have worked, and I haven't had a problem in over a year now.

Good Evening All-

Posted by Arthalion:
"...When that dumba** kid rode into my tiger pit (3-foot deep concrete-lined pit designed specifically to catch and forcibly dismount dirtbike riders coming up my road) his dad tried to have me arrested and then tried to sue. In both cases, he had no case because the traps were set inside not only my property line, but my gated fenceline. That particular kid had actually knocked my brand new $300 gate over and gunned it up my road without knowing that there was an open trap ahead.

Both the police and the judge said the same thing...they were forcibly tresspassing, and the boys' injuries directly resulted from that. I could have strung Saran Wrap, concertina, or a flipping piano wire across the road, and it's unlikely that I would have been held any more responsible..."

*************************

Arthalion, I don't know you and you don't know me...but I'm waving the BS flag here. I don't believe you're telling the entire truth. There isn't a state in this country who would accomodate your well-documented propensity to cause bodily damage. Hey, you even said it on the Internet.

Just because I don't like schoolkids cutting through my yard doesn't mean I can dig a trench as deep as the tallest, wide as the fattest, and line it with punji sticks just because it's my yard. It would be classified as a crime.

~ Blue Jays ~

I normally don't do this, but you're just flat out lying. Booby-trapping is illegal. It doesn't even matter if you booby-trap your house behind locked doors. If this kids father had called the cops as you say, you'd be behind bars, and if this kids father had gotten a lawyer as you say, he'd own everything you have.

That particular kid had actually knocked my brand new $300 gate over and gunned it up my road without knowing that there was an open trap ahead.

Ah... That makes sense, actually. If you had just put traps all over your property but had no fence around it, things would have been different.