Breaking911: Van Buren, Maine — During the early evening of Thursday, November 28, 2019, the Van Buren Police Department was dispatched to a residence on St. Francis Avenue answering to a 911 call from a male reporting that he had been shot.
Officer Chandler Madore and the Van Buren Ambulance Service arrived on scene, assisted by the US Border Patrol, and provided emergency medical assistance to the injured man who was identified as the home owner, Ronald Cyr, 65. Cyr succumbed to the injuries he sustained from the gunshot.
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Lethal booby traps are illegal here in Texas. Probably there too. I’ve felt like rigging a few up over the years due to thieves. I’m sure I’d be dead already if I had. Or serve prison time. “Just wanted to shock the sh*t out of him, officer. Didn’t think it would electrocute him and fry his brain like that. (shrug)”
I rigged up the kitchen sprayer with a rubber band one April fools day.
Yeah. It was me that got sprayed that morning. Wasn’t the brightest idea I’ve had considering I was the only morning person in the house.
Well, at least he knows that it worked!
Death by booby.
Not a bad way to go.
Just call … uhh … shit, I had it ………….. wots that number for 911?
The day before Black Friday booby trap sales. Bummer.
“Acme……the first name in home protection.” Acme is a proud sponsor of the 2019 Darwin Awards.
“It seemed like a good idea at the time…”
THUD!
This is why lethal booby traps are illegal.
First rule of booby traps:
Don’t be the booby.
There was actually a Supreme Court case about this. A man rigged a shotgun to a door on an abandoned house he owned.
You must fear for your life, not your property.
Katko v. Briney
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katko_v._Briney
Four years after the case was decided, Edward Briney was asked if he would change anything about the situation. Briney replied, “There’s one thing I’d do different, though: I’d have aimed that gun a few feet higher.”
“…For ’tis the sport to have the enginer hoist with his own petard.”
— Willie S.
What about an attack/guard dog?
When I was younger, we had a beautiful beagle/dachshund mix. She was such a good doggie. One day, I thought I’d test her reaction to a stranger trying to break into the house. I put her on the enclosed front porch and put on layers of clothes, gloves and a hat/bandana to disguise myself.
I sneaked around the corner of the house and up to the screen door. She scared the crap out of me! I thought she was going to come through the screen door and kill me. I ran back around the house, took off my disguise and walked back around the corner to the door. She jumped up to the door with her tail wagging and her tongue hanging out.
She got lots of treats that day.
Dadof4 wins MJA’s first laugh of the day. 😀
Claudia. Some Dachshunds (the bossy ones) do a security check around the house before they go to bed at night. 😀
An employee where I worked brought his young son along one day. The kid was carrying a big rubber snake. I talked him into putting the rubber snake in a drawer, positive that a friend of mine would open the drawer.
Late in the afternoon I totally forgot about the snake and opened the drawer myself. I was told I moved about 10 feet backward in a nano second. What a fool I was, I have a serious fear of snakes!