Responding to Pre-dawn Unannounced Ninja Raids

[snow]

On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, Vinnie Moscaritolo wrote:

> >   You pop a claymore in a building with any substance up to the level of
> >concrete re-enforced, and you _will_ be going with them.
> 
> booby traping your home is a really stupid idea, I promise that your
> dog/child/spouse will be theone to accidentally set it off. besides for
> this you can get sued..

     I wasn't condoning boobytrapping, I was arguing that a claymore is 
a bit on the explosive side for use in a house (the thing has about a 
pound of C-4 and a whole bunch of steel ball bearings in it, 95% mortality
out to about 50 meters IIRC. 

> every hear the one about the case of a guy who constantly had his radar
> detector stolen out his his car, he decides to set a trap and rigs his next
> one with exposive. The perp steals the box, sells it. someclown powers it
> up on his dash board and BANG!.. well you'd figure justice is served, but
> the NYC judges awarded the mass of flesh damages and charged the guy with
> manslaughter.

      There are other stories where the perp gets it _in_the_act_ and still
gets awarded damages. Fucking country is going to the dogs and there ain't 
nowhere else to go.

Petro, Christopher C.
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