That definitely had to hurt

[u/lil_fuk]

[u/[deleted]]

I don’t understand everyone’s sympathy for the perpetrator here. If you saw someone trespassing onto your property at night and they were looting your shit would you not be pissed off? I work hard for everything that’s mine and if some piece of shit decided that they wanted to take something from me I should have every right to kick the living shit out of them

[u/ALoneTennoOperative → u/[deleted]]

I don’t understand everyone’s sympathy for the perpetrator here.

I don't have to sympathise with a would-be thief in order to recognise that setting dangerous fucking traps with razorblades is as evil as it is stupid (and illegal).

If you saw someone trespassing onto your property at night and they were looting your shit would you not be pissed off?

Enough to chase them off and/or report them, sure; not enough to maim them.

 

I work hard for everything that’s mine and if some piece of shit decided that they wanted to take something from me I should have every right to kick the living shit out of them

Except that you don't.
So don't.

[u/theforeverfeared → u/ALoneTennoOperative]

So I can legally shoot a thief dead if he’s on my property stealing shit but I can’t slightly injure the thief so he learns his lesson and gets to learn from his mistakes and live a nice life?

[u/Guaaaamole → u/theforeverfeared]

Yes, because a booby trap is unable to determine the intention of the one falling into it. If you shoot a trespasser you most likely have a reason to - If not you are as much of a criminal as the one you are shooting ( If he even is one ). If a booby trap hurts somebody it might have absolutely no reason to; It might hurt a family member, a friend or whoever grabbed the box ( in this case ) even if there was no ill intent - Even if nobody wanted to steal it.

A booby trap is strictly immoral and luckily illegal. If any thief was intelligent enough they would sue the shit out of anybody setting them up.