Don Bruder wrote:


In some jurisdictions, simply placing the booby-traps in the first place
is a criminal offense that gets handled on a par with attempted murder.
In other jurisdictions, even IMPLYING that you've placed booby-traps,
whether you have actually done so or not, will get you at least hassled
by the LEOs, if not actually arrested.

That's exactly what happened to a jeweler here in San Francisco, that I
used to do trade work for many years ago. She used to have a large boa
constrictor crawling around on the floor of her shop at night, with a
sign in the window advising prospective visitors of that fact.

Boa constrictors are of course harmless to humans, since even large ones
are not interested in eating us or capable of harming us. So she was in
fact only implying that harm would come to a potential burglar.

A local news paper columnist wrote about this in the paper when he found
out about this. The police visited her the next day. Which the
columnist also promptly reported of course.

Abrasha
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