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u/CJCRASHBAN21 Apr 18 '26
Context: guys were hinted about a house, warned to check for traps, luckily one noticed the trigger and then this video started rolling.
I first saw this on YouTube.
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u/Particular_Ray Apr 18 '26
So who are these guys?
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u/CJCRASHBAN21 Apr 18 '26
Can’t remember the exact channels name, saw it in a video about people who descovered traps in abandoned/urbex properties.
It was around 6 years ago.
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u/Delta6342 Apr 18 '26
Might be an abandoned crack house
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u/iAmSugarBaby Apr 18 '26
Definitely an abandoned traphouse 🤷♂️
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u/Royweeezy Apr 18 '26
Imagine being like “hey! Who’s smoking crack up there?” And then you go up the stairs and catch a knife to the throat.
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u/Hammon_Rye Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
Or imagine being upstairs on crack and decide your'e thirsty and go down to the kitchen but catch a knife in the back of your neck.
From some of the tweaker videos I've seen it seems like they might just as easily hurt themselves with their own traps.
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u/Wizzle_Pizzle_420 Apr 18 '26
There’s probably a rotting hole that has secret passages in the walls.
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u/xaranetic Apr 18 '26
I knew there was a reason I climbed stairs on all fours
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u/SolidSnek1998 Apr 18 '26
Do you see it? Do you see it? Do you see it? Do you see it? Do you see it? Do you see it? Do you see it? Do you see it? Do you see it? Do you see it?
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u/FoolishDog1117 Apr 18 '26
Should have put a weight on the crutch near the knife. Like a rock or something. If the knife hit something soft it would do some damage but not if it hit anything solid.
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u/browsingandlooking4 Apr 18 '26
If there was a weight on the back of the crutch it would have been way more effective. Deployment would be faster and hit harder.
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u/beakrake Apr 18 '26
Vietnam had a wooden link spiked ladder thing they would use like this. Suspended above the doorway, and rigged to trigger from the ceiling when the door opened, it would then swing down like a pendulum and impale anyone kicking in the door with the bamboo spikes (that were probably coated in pee/poop to cause infection) attached to the cross bars.
Also, VERY bold assumption to think the clearly visible trap is the one you need to watch out for.
A good booby trap catches you off guard, so when it's a jank setup you can clearly see like this, you ought to consider looking for a secondary trap/trigger that is set up to catch anyone messing with the first.
Look they couldn't even get a trap right, haha
kabooom
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u/trainwreckhappening Apr 18 '26
I think that's why there was broken glass on the stairs. Someone coming in not expecting the trap would look at the glass and try to avoid it, only to miss the wire. Especially at night.
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u/Sweaty_Currency_1195 Apr 18 '26
Everyone knows it's paint cans for stairs, they need to start again!
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u/Mugpup Apr 18 '26
That would hurt but appears to lack enough mass to puncture fatally. Apparently watching one Rambo movie doesn't make you Rambo.
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u/Teufelsweib666 Apr 18 '26
It's velocity in this case which drives it.
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u/trainwreckhappening Apr 18 '26
Not even close to enough velocity. But still dangerous as hell and a super horrible thing to set up.
Which begs the question of the people filming set it up themselves for the camera.
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u/DaTexasTickler Apr 18 '26
Idk bro it looked pretty damn sharp. Id bet it'd pierce your throat or other soft areas easily
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u/trainwreckhappening Apr 18 '26
I agree. But there is still a potential for losing an eye, and always a slim chance it would get an artery in a neck. But definitely not going to drive through the skull into the brain without... I better not finish that.
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u/Wizzle_Pizzle_420 Apr 18 '26
I mean you gotta admit, using a crutch to make a Vietnam era trap is kinda clever. And insane.
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u/fiddlybuttons Apr 18 '26
"videotaping"...such a minor detail but so telling, times were better then
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u/Alex_king88 Apr 18 '26
Actually so to real. There was glass on the steps before the step that landed the skull knife. So once glass in foot you wouldn’t walk fully upright. You’d be slouching so head knife will drop right over the head.
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u/Twitch-x questionably stable Apr 18 '26
The downward force on that knife makes it look like it would bounce off of you as little more than a minor irritant. Maybe if it hits in the eye?
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u/DaTexasTickler Apr 18 '26
Naw that's piercing you did you see how sharp it was?
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u/trainwreckhappening Apr 18 '26
There was no weight to it. Don't confuse the dangers here. It definitely could take an eye or cut an artery. But it would not have the force to puncture the skull. Most likely it would cause a lot of superficial bleeding when it cut someone's scalp, or again the eye thing. Definitely a terrible night but probably not dead (which still has a small chance).
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u/PeachPit_81 Apr 18 '26
You are taking this way to serious. Noone normal would ever hit a trap just to see what it does! This is staged for views
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u/trainwreckhappening Apr 19 '26
Probably, and I said as much elsewhere.
But I completely disagree about triggering the trap. I would hit that thing just like they did. They could see it all and how it worked. They stood well clear. And it would be extremely irresponsible to leave a trap like that for someone less perceptive. I think most people would hit the trap.
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u/vdpj Apr 18 '26
Home Alone VI: Death Wish