Well, if they didn't want their fingers cut, they shouldn't have tried to steal. It's a bit heavy- handed though, I think. You could have also stopped them using electric shock or a siren
it's illegal to booby trap something with the intent to maim or kill, even in your own home it's illegal, a remote taser in a car seat is illegal as well.
That’s absolutely ridiculous that you can’t safeguard your own property from theft and somebody who gets injured from trying to steal your property can sue you for it.
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Punish, don't kill.
They'll learn to not steal, or at least not to steal your shit.
Although keep in mind that as a home owner most places, if a person injured themselves on a spiked fence there is a chance you could be held legally liable for that. Booby traps are illegal for many reasons. You don’t know who will actually trigger the trap, a child, a paramedic, police officer, repo person, or someone else with legal intentions. You may forget about the traps, you may die or become incapacitated and someone else comes in to owning or occupying your property and triggers a trap years or decades after your death. In a world where booby traps are legal, we’d live in a world where hundreds of years of forgotten or unknown traps were piled up all around us in secret. And that’s nothing to say of people who would commit crimes intentionally and use a legal booby trap as an easy way to avoid punishment. Want your husband dead? Booby trap somethingbin the house he uses and don’t tell him, then lie and say he must have forgot. Hate your neighbor? Booby trap his stuff or...
.... a shared item or entry. There’s no reliable signature for booby traps, no real way to tell who actually placed it, especially if the person triggering the trap is killed. A key factor in wether something like a spiked fence is a legal liability is wether or not the average person could reasonably injure themselves on it. A 3-5 foot tall fence, a person could easily accidentally get hurt without breaking any laws, or a child or moron could hurt themselves. A 20ft spiked fence (assuming in both cases the spikes are on the top pointing up) is less likely a hazard, but if someone did try to climb it and was hurt could in some states and circumstances open you up to legal action.
@guest_ It seems like the lower spiked fence would put you in more risk of getting in trouble than having a tall spiked fence, since someone would have to put effort into climbing the tall fence to get injured on it, proving that their own actions caused their hurt. Maybe I'm just confused about your comment.
@kakaburra- I’ll preface this by saying that I only speak to American law here, not international, and even within America there can be great differences in how cases are handled based on local law and interpretations of law/culture. That said- yes. I apologize if my comment was confusing. I was saying that a low spiked fence has a very high chance of litigation if someone gets injured- especially by accident, but even a high spiked fence has some danger of legal action. Provate home or property owners in general are liable for any injuries on their property, regardless of wether the person was breaking the law, so even a trespasser or burglar who gets injured can sue.
Ohhhh, I get what you mean now. I’m American and knew people are liable for what happens on their property, but not to what extent. It seems the line moves every time someone sues even when they’re the guilty party. Thanks for explaining without condescension. :)
I remember someone once tied a wire around neck eight across a public biking path because they didn't like hearing noise coming from the path when people where on off road motorbikes. They almost decapitated some poor stranger that way.
They'll learn to not steal, or at least not to steal your shit.