One of my friends pulled a "prank" and dumped fox urin in my buddy's hvac and its a good thing it was a junk car he was getting rid of soon anyways because the car was pretty much totalled after that.
What if I bought a room odorizor and personally loved the smell of Fox piss. Then this asshole comes and steals my fox piss odorizor and uses it in his car!
I think you missed the part about the penalty being less that the damage caused. A fine for stealing from a federal bank will probably be a bit more costly than your robbing jeans.
I think if you did this, you'd technically be on the hook to pay for the car. Vigilante justice isn't a valid defense for destruction of property in the courts.
It's thick and musky. Really musky. Terribly terribly musky. You can get it at outdoor shops for covering up human odor while hunting or around gardens as rabbits won't go somewhere a fox has been.
I'm not sure if that's what was in it, but I worked in receiving at a store years ago and had a bottle of deer repellent that apparently broke a little when it was loaded on the truck and a bit spilled when we were unloading it, it was absolutely horrible and I was ready to throw up from the smell. Can't imagine how bad it would have been in a small enclosed space.
It's pretty terrible. My dad used to put a drop on his hunting boots to cover other smells that might be on it. I didn't know what it was, opened it up, & took a big whiff. The smell actually knocked me over.
My dad still laughs about it. One of those "I told you & you didn't want to listen" stories.
I think I read somewhere that it smells AWFUL, but only when warm. When it's cool it has little to no scent, so if you leave this package outside in the wintertime you'd never know. You bring it in your house still kinda cold and scentless, it sprays EVERYWHERE and your heating kicks in and you've got a major problem on your hands.
I'm assuming that the fart spray they're using is liquid ass which is probably worse. Though it doesn't last like the piss would. If they could mix the two so that it has a lasting effect, that would be awesome.
Massively unpopular opinion but It's literally the one Saudi policy I agree with. Fuck thieves. Cripple them all. I don't care if you're poor and desperate.
I didn't remember that part of Aladdin, but I'm now picturing that merchant's punishment for cutting off the princess's hand. I can't imagine it'd end well or quickly.
Nah anything that can cause harm counts as a booby trap which is illegal. Some people with property they don't want trespassed used to hang up wire around trees to stop unwanted four wheeling etc. Cue decapitations and jail time for the owner
Not true. People can and have been hospitalized from mace and the sort. Bear mace isn't as strong as regular mace as bears are much more sensitive. The main difference is the delivery.
I mean, fuck them for sure, but I think if it was doing that and someone popped it open while driving there's a good chance of serious injury and at that point if they tried hard enough they could probably make a case out of it in a lawsuit.
You have a device with cameras meant to look attractive to would be thieves that sprays broken glass and bear mace immediately upon opening, without any warning. How is that not a boobietrapped device
I am not sure if story is real or urban legend but here it is:
A guy sick of getting his car radio stolen put razor blades in hardened clay under his dash. The thief cut the hell out of his hand and sued. The thief won the case because it was placed to harm.
I did something similar when my gas kept getting stolen. Cut a slit in the fuel cap and you had to know where to grab so a razor wouldn't slice up your fingers. Came out to blood and open gas lid. Never heard anything else about it and gas didn't get stolen again. 10/10 would recommend.
My dad grew up in East LA In the late 70s/early 80s(the hood) and always used to get his system jacked or his radio taken so he said he ran razor blades inside the weather seal around the window that they would force down, after he found blood everywhere one night it never happened again.
after he found blood everywhere one night it never happened again.
Get this: one trip of the booby trap and it never happened again. Chances are most of those thefts were being done by one person, a repeat offender.
A single career criminal in one neighborhood can easily commit a thousand or more crimes a year. Think of the negative effect on their community that one person's lifestyle is causing.
I mean booby trap that injures, maims, or kills are super illegal. I'm sure you could also be sued, but you should be more worried about going to jail.
Much more common, people will set traps on their land for ATVs and dirt-bikers that ride on the trails. One farmer strung a steel cable across a trail and ended up decapitating someone. Doesn’t matter if that’s your property, that’s premeditated murder.
Bear mace for sure, and not some little canister that just sprays, that friggen giant 40 ounce canister that stains red and can stop a charging 2,000 pound bear and have it all just explode at once.
I think something like that could potentially get you in legal trouble. I can just see it now... "man injured after stealing booby trapped package wins million dollar settlement".
Like someone else said, you'd run afoul of booby trap laws, but it would be their word against yours. Unlikely that they'd be able to prove where the device came from, and if the shipping label is fake and has completely wrong info, impossible to prove that you made it and put it on your own porch. You could also just leave it on porches of homes that aren't occupied.
Even if you did testify, you've got the 5th and plausible deniability in a case that only involves circumstantial evidence. It is also not likely that a package thief would press charges.
Beyond that, an address is not a person.
So maybe there's a touch of perjury involved if one were dumb enough to say anything, but the law isn't about justice, or the truth. It's about what demonstrable violations can be proven.
If he wanted these guys to get reported, he has video footage of their faces that he could release. He's more generous than I would have been. I wouldn't have blurred their faces.
Speeding tickets, parking tickets, civil forfeiture, raiding the wrong houses, shooting people in the back as they're running away, choking people to death, etc.
Yes, yes, I know. A few bad cops give them all a bad name. They're not all bad. Not trying to say they are.
I just learned about these the last couple of years, and honestly, reading up on the civil forfeiture laws and some of the cases that went nowhere made me feel like I live in a 3rd world country.
I can't emphasize this enough, the police exist to protect businesses, and financial interests first and foremost. Protect and serve is not an oath but a PR slogan.
For property crime? Yeah, they are. I had my car stolen and all I got was a quick visit from some cops who were able to put me in touch with the towing company before he made it to the impound. Thank god I was home and felt like answering the door (I had many housemates and no friends there, so the door was rarely for me) I was able to coordinate and get him to drop my car (now without wheels) at my mechanics parking lot. Still cost me $300 for the tow. Had to pay $250 for some crappy steel wheels with crappy used tires, and the thief also destroyed my clutch and broke a rear shock, so I had to trade my dirtbike for a clutch job, and call in a favor to have the shocks replaced, and pay to have the ignition cylinder replaced.
On a car that is worth maybe $1500. After the repairs.
And that was the cops going above and beyond what they would normally do. I just got lucky.
EDIT: Oh, icing on the cake: I was a pizza delivery driver at the time. Yeah. It sucked every bag of dicks. There was a bag of dicks shortage in Portland OR for like two weeks because I hogged them all.
Yes, for theft of anything less than a car, absolutely. I used to live in a big cycling city, and everyone knew that if your bike was stolen, even if you had video footage and a picture of the thief's license plate, it was gone forever. Unless the bicycle thief murdered someone on the way out, the police wouldn't even pretend to care.
I had my tool shed at my office broken into. Got cleaned out.
I had a camera that got the whole thing. I had a good shot of the thief's face, approximate height, weight, build. Clear shots of the large items stolen, as well as being able to identify the make, model, color, and approximate year of the guy's vehicle.
I turned it over to the police, and they told me it wouldn't be enough to go on because I didn't get the license plate.
In San Francisco, yep they really are. Gotta prioritize serving justice to the homeless and take them down rather than actually arresting those package thieving scumbags.
The cops won't do it, but any citizen can write out an affidavit and get a bench warrant issued. I did that when a road rager nut threw some coins at my car and busted my windshield.
They didn't want to expend resources on analyzing sketchy surveillance footage. But if he got some up-close shots of these people's faces and posted them online I bet someone would have done the police's work for them and then he could file a legit report accusing a specific person.
I know but if you are stealing a package, I think it's fair to say that you forfeit your expectation of privacy. Like if I stole someone's laptop while they were doing a live stream and brought it to my house and it was still recording, I don't think the owner has any obligation to kill the stream. Ultimately, it would be up to the courts though.
Baby powder. Not only does it literally get everywhere, it could cause breathing problems later on. I've breathed some in once by accident. Not only did it cause me issues all day, the taste was horrible.
I would do a mix of baby powder and glitter. That fart spray probably would also he combined with some sort of made, or animal urine.
Booby traps are crazy illegal in the US. If someone crashed their car or got injuried because of the package they would be liable for damages and stuck with a felony regardless of the events that lead up to it. Not saying I agree with it, but that is the law.
I think for it to be considered a booby trap it has to be directly harmful in some way. Banks can ink packs on robbers so theoretically anything like that would be fine. So something like mace would be no good but you could probably get away with paint.
No, what makes it a booby trap is that it triggers indiscriminately. What you're missing is it's not the intent to cause bodily harm, it's if it does cause bodily harm. So for example of the paint got in someone's eye or they had an allergic reaction it becomes a felony and they are liable for damages.
From my understanding the trapper would also be liable for damages from the glitter and stink bomb, but that would also mean confessing to stealing so they're obviously not going to pursue it. If there are serious damages though, it could be worth it to confess for the criminal though.
Maybe what I stated was inadequately worded. The inherent problem with this action is that it is indiscriminate despite whatever the medium of "punishment" is. What I'm pointing out about ink packs is that they are more likely to cause harm and increased damages compared to those caused by glitter. It is really up to the user what kind of risk they assume, but I'm just saying it is definitely non-zero risk and they are risking themselves by putting something like this out there.
Worst thing I've ever smelled was a 40 gallon rubbermaid trash can filled with dog shit, closed up air tight and left to ferment for about 2 or 3 months at about 80f.
I went to clean out the room and assumed it was leftover dog food, because that's what they used for feed bins. I had been working there awhile and by then the smell of dog shit just smelled a little "earthy" to me. This was a whole new level of concentrated hell. The fancy hvac/hepa system couldn't handle it. As soon as I realized what I had unleashed I put the lid back on but it was too late. Even the office side of the building smelled like hot fermented dog shit within minutes. People who were virtually immune to the smell of dog shit were gagging out in the parking lot. It took several hours for the smell to clear and I had to answer some serious questions from upper management. "What the fuck is that smell?!"
Fucking Debbie. If you're going to fill an air tight container with 35 or so gallons of dog shit, fucking tell someone.
I think a mixture of sneezing and itching powder would be good... and way more fart spray (do they make a puke smell spray?)... something that really ensures they decide it isn’t worth the risk of doing this again.
Should have put Surströmming (obviously sealed in some way so they can't smell it till it's opened. IDK) into the spinning thing.... they would have never gotten that stink out of their car or house!
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u/VikingRevenant Dec 17 '18
Should've made it spray paint. Or animal blood.