TCM wrote: (...)

Still, I remember vividly in college when the court case was decided involving a guy in Florida who was tired of being burglarized and the cops doing nothing about it: he rigged a shotgun to go off when someone broke a window and entered. A perp did, was shot, survived, and the case went to trial.

The boobytrapper was found guilty of some serious crime--I don't recall the details (this was circa 1972).

(...)

As Vinnie said, "only in Amerika."

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