Booby Trap - Criminal and Security Use

Criminal and Security Use

Booby traps can also be applied as defensive weapons against unwelcome guests or against non-military trespassers, and some people set up traps in their homes to keep people from entering. Laws vary: the creator of the trap may be immune from prosecution since the victim is trespassing, or the home owner may be held liable for injuries caused to the trespasser.

See also: Katko v. Briney

Read more about this topic:  Booby Trap

Famous quotes containing the words criminal and/or security:

    “Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.”
    —Karl Kraus (1874–1936)

    “The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are,—1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)