Abrasha wrote:

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.

Not true. A full-size adult was killed by his pet boa constrictor (yes,
the snake was HUGE) about 15 years ago, here in the St. Louis area.
Certainly rare, but it can happen. The guy was trying to cut the snake
with a pocket knife when he must have run out of air.

Jon