Re: the thief might get hurt!

[security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>]

You cannot booby trap your own home because it unfairly jeopardizes 
emergency response such as fire, ambulence or police (responding to ferg 
about storeowner and prosecuted for such activity).

Putting barbed wire on a fence seems reasonable, and I suspect there is 
something else at play here, as many businesses do it.


On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Paul Ferguson wrote:

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: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Peter Evans <peter () ixp jp> wrote:
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: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:19:26AM -0500, Gadi Evron wrote:
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: >> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1075809/No-barbed-wire--hurt-thi
: >> eves-allotment-holders-told.html
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: >        I'm waiting for someone to get jail time for defending himself
: >        from a mugger. That would, one hopes, be the last straw and all
: >        this stupidity would get a righteous stomping on by the incensed
: >        public voting the wets out.
: >
: 
: Already happened, many times.
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: One example:
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: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3406160.ece
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: - - ferg
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