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Should setting booby traps in your home be legal?

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  • 22-02-2020 8:58pm
    #1
    Crock Rock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 616 ✭✭✭


    Or simply killing an intruder.

    The scumbags are the ones breaking in. Rightfully, they have nothing to complain about if the come unstuck.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Home Alone style.

    But yeah, anyone breaking in should be fair game for anything. If they don’t like it then not breaking in is a simple way to avoid it.


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    KaneToad
    Registered Users Posts: 3,245 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    Only if they contain real boobs.


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    #4
    skallywag
    Registered Users Posts: 2,992 ✭✭✭skallywag


    What's mummy making for dinner?


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    #5
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Not only legal, but encouraged.

    Everything metal should be electrified when you set your alarm for being out of the house.


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    #6
    Home Alone
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭Home Alone


    Keep the change, you filthy animal!


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    #7
    Crock Rock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 616 ✭✭✭Crock Rock


    Home Alone wrote: »
    Keep the change, you filthy animal!

    Did you register just to make that post? :pac:


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    greencap
    Registered Users Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭greencap


    No.

    The burglar misses the trap, leaves the door open.
    A garda/concerned neighbour goes in, the giant boulder squashes them.

    discussion/2058195983/russia-threadbanned-users-in-op/p3135

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    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    greencap wrote: »
    A concerned neighbour goes in, the giant boulder squashes them.

    Serves the nosey prick right for sticking their oar in. My booby traps are more effective than their nosiness will every be.


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    Lyan
    Registered Users Posts: 220 ✭✭Lyan


    We should unironicly be allowed to own guns for the purpose of shooting intruders.


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    Harry Palmr
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    What's a deliberate booby trap though?

    One could leave several upturned rakes on the kitchen floor quite absent mindedly


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    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Lyan wrote: »
    We should unironicly be allowed to own guns for the purpose of shooting intruders.

    I feel I should be allowed up to 3 of these

    Autoturret-2.jpg


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    Jonybgud
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    Mid term eh!:rolleyes:


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    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    I feel I should be allowed up to 3 of these

    Autoturret-2.jpg

    giphy.gif


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    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Yeah , sure what could go wrong assuming your wife , kids and dog are all locked away at night.


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    TuringBot47
    Registered Users Posts: 991 ✭✭✭TuringBot47


    Crock Rock wrote: »
    Should setting booby traps in your home be legal?

    And what happens if your house is on fire and firemen are breaking into the house to save you?


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    Sober Crappy Chemis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 461 ✭✭Sober Crappy Chemis


    These guys don’t think so ...

    then-and-now-home-alone-joe-pesci-and-daniel-stern-1447857762-large-article-0.jpg


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    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    I've no doubt I'd come in pissed some night and forget to disable the boulder.


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    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    TuringBot47 wrote: »
    And what happens if your house is on fire and firemen are breaking into the house to save you?

    They know the risks of the game.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Crock Rock wrote: »
    Or simply killing an intruder.

    The scumbags are the ones breaking in. Rightfully, they have nothing to complain about if the come unstuck.

    What if their pregnant?


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    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »
    I've no doubt I'd come in pissed some night and forget to disable the boulder.

    Maybe you could have a non lethal boulder.


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    #22
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    DubInMeath wrote: »
    What if their pregnant?

    What if their pregnant what?

    Girlfriend is at home?

    :pac:


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    [Deleted User]
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    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    What if their pregnant what?

    Girlfriend is at home?

    :pac:

    Plenty of females committing burglary


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    [Deleted User]
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    You could stretch a bra from one side of the door to the other, and put a rock in the middle, like a sort of slingshot.

    That's a real booby trap.


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    #25
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    greencap wrote: »
    No.

    The burglar misses the trap, leaves the door open.
    A garda/concerned neighbour goes in, the giant boulder squashes them.
    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    What's a deliberate booby trap though?

    One could leave several upturned rakes on the kitchen floor quite absent mindedly

    Candie wrote: »
    You could stretch a bra from one side of the door to the other, and put a rock in the middle, like a sort of slingshot.

    That's a real booby trap.

    Sounds like soemthing you'd see in a Roadrunner cartoon.

    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    I feel I should be allowed up to 3 of these

    Autoturret-2.jpg

    Robocop?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #26
    Sober Crappy Chemis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 461 ✭✭Sober Crappy Chemis


    Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »
    I've no doubt I'd come in pissed some night and forget to disable the boulder.
    .... then you’d be drunk AND stoned :pac:


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    #27
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users Posts: 2,253 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    I read booby traps and immediately thought of bras...must dig out my copy of 1984 Kays catalogue


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    #28
    Atlantic Dawn
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    Yes I'd love to have 40 litres of acidic drain cleaner ready to drop on someone coming in to the house , I would hear them before I would see them.


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    #29
    Gynoid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭Gynoid


    When one of my children was young they became quite enamoured with the idea of booby traps. The property was rural, forested, diverse, not a lawn or manicured. They would dig holes or make invisible trip lines and prop over coverings, like grass or leaves, proper SAS Handbook stuff. They thought it was brilliant and hilarious, I consideraby less so.


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    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Gynoid wrote: »
    When one of my children was young they became quite enamoured with the idea of booby traps. The property was rural, forested, diverse, not a lawn or manicured. They would dig holes or make invisible trip lines and prop over coverings, like grass or leaves, proper SAS Handbook stuff. They thought it was brilliant and hilarious, I consideraby less so.

    I hope you did the proper parenting thing and encouraged their creativeness in their hobby by buying them some claymores.


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    Mr.Crinklewood
    Registered Users Posts: 12,426 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Crinklewood


    My dad was killed by a device he had on the front door.

    ..and to think we thought the alzheimer's would if killed him first.


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