No real point in embellishing or even editorializing.
Man killed by booby trap rigged in his own home on Thanksgiving, police say
The deceased, identified by police as 65-year-old Ronald Cyr of Van Buren, Maine, called 911 after he was shot by his self-made home security device and was taken to a hospital, police said in a Friday news release.
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Investigators at the scene discovered that Cyr’s front door was rigged with a device “designed to fire a handgun should anyone attempt to enter the door,” according to the police statement. Police reportedly found other “unknown devices” in Cyr’s home that prompted them to call the Maine State Police Bomb Squad.
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Agencies involved with the investigation, which include the Van Buren Police Department, the Aroostook County Sheriff’s Office, the Maine Warden Service and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, did not immediately respond to requests for additional information.
While Maine law permits the use of deadly force against home intruders in many cases, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that booby traps — generally defined as any covert or concealed device designed to cause injury or death when triggered — are illegal.
I don’t know which is worse, setting up such a heinous device or being so f’ing stupid you forget you set it up and blowing your own fool head off.
In any case, the charming Mr. Cyr will not be making any more innovative home improvements.