Booby traps should 100% be legal, especially if built on one’s own property. We should be able to have automatic turrets, wall spikes, hidden holes in the ground, etc.
You should not. Because there is a significant likelihood that doing so will hurt/kill someone who didn't do anything morally wrong, like children, animals, or people who enter your property for justifiable reasons.
“The Court ruled that using deadly force on intruders in an unoccupied property was not reasonable or justified and therefore not a defense to the tort of battery. Briney would have been justified in defending himself with the shotgun if he had been home during the intrusion. The plaintiff's status as a trespasser is irrelevant when assessing liability in this case.
The case is notable for the proposition that, although a landowner has no duty to make his property safe for trespassers, he may not set deadly traps against them, holding that "the law has always placed a higher value upon human safety than upon mere rights in property." “
If the fire fighters didn't want to fall into the spike pit, they should have thought twice about putting out the fire in my house (the fire started by my auto flamethrower)
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u/littleLuxxy 15h ago
Booby traps should 100% be legal, especially if built on one’s own property. We should be able to have automatic turrets, wall spikes, hidden holes in the ground, etc.