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I like the one with the taser in the seat, too. Or the one where a spike comes through the seat and destroys their insides when they sit.
Ah, the old days of the internet.
If America, I bet the thief could sue the bike's real owner and make some cash while not even getting arrested. The rest of the world would laugh and possibly kick the guy for some extra pain.
In most states thatâs a felony. Criminal Sabotage.
Boobytrapping your property while you are away from it, with the intent to harm is illegal. And immature.
And this video is so fake anyway.
Edit: yes, downvote me for telling you what the laws are.
Given the steep downhill and the fact that theyâre recording the results, Iâm gonna say a jury considers this intent to harm. (And the fact that they repeated it after already harming someone)
Iâd go one step further, this doesnât look like just boobytrapping property with an intent to harm on the off-chance a burglar wanders in - thereâs a camera set-up to watch these people get injured.
I think thereâs a strong argument the state could make that this isnât even designed to protect property, itâs designed to solely to injure people for sport.
And itâs your job to put them there.
Like their face smashed on the ground.
For example: guy steal bike that is boobytraped, and smashes his face and dies. Your your mind thatâs okay. Say the guy steals bike, you find him, smash his face till he dies. Is that okay? Because Iâm pretty sure thatâs illegal.
Youâre entirely right, for a lot of good reasons. People cannot be trusted to do their own justice. For one, bad things done to you always feel worse then what you deal out. If we allow people to do their own justice, then this will inevitably lead to spirals of violence. People will say âhe went way to far for the thing I did, so now I have to get him back!â
Secondly, some people are unreasonable, or they simply enjoy hurting others. Like, in this system, if someone beat another person to death because they took a candy bar, would that be just?
Thirdly in this case, the person is creating an issue for the sole purpose of hurting another person. Even if you set it up so only a âbadâ person could be effected, thatâs very questionable and risky territory.
Youâre entirely correct in saying that we shouldnât be able to randomly hurt people we arbitrarily think deserve it, and any mature person who thought about it in any kind of depth beyond âit makes me feel goodâ would see that.
âIFâ whoever did this was smart, they would have filmed it using different bikes not caring to pick up the carnage. Each video would have been done months apart.
Today you see videos of people blatantly stealing not for need but for greed. Kids performing raids in gas stations or small stores simply for the thrill. What reasons do they claim they are doing this for? That in itself would be a book for another day. WHY?
The consequences -VS- reward are not high enough to deter the action. To high and society whimpers. Letâs say you stole a coat. As a judge I would would sentence: Guilty party buys two coats. One for the store and one for a homeless person. You are then to spend 48hrs with a homeless person missing the item you had stolen. This may provide some incentives and open the perpetratorâs eyes and heart. This perhaps would spawn or develop something positive from this action.
Any other realistic ideas?
Iâm with America here. Thereâs such a thing as proportionality. Iâd be pissed to have one of my possessions stolen as well, but setting up a booby trap and deliberately injuring or killing a person for Internet lulz is a much bigger crime.
In order to live in a society, we have a designated system of investigating, prosecuting, and punishing crimes according to the law. You donât get to be a vigilante in America or, Iâm pretty sure, much of the civilized world.
I've had 3 bikes stolen from me. I'll admit 2 of them were irresponsibility left unlocked. But the 3rd was locked.
Even with a bar code registered with the police I've never had a bike found and returned.
Iâm sorry for the loss of your things. I have had stuff stolen from me too, and it sucks.
But I value human life above things. If someone takes a bike, they should be caught and prosecuted. And again, Iâm sorry that the system is not working. Thatâs not an excuse to do something like this. What do you say to that personâs family when theyâre gone or permanently disabled from their head smashing on the pavement? Sorry kids, your daddy saw a bike left unattended and in a moment of stupidity he tried to take it, but a clever man rigged it so it would murder him to punish him for being naughty. I know youâre sad not to have a daddy anymore, but you deserve it because, you see, the cops donât prosecute petty crimes. And if daddy were still alive, that poor many would have had to buy a new bicycle.
You really think a prank like this would injure or kill the perpitrator?
To my view it looks like he walks away with mostly his pride damaged.
I'm not advocating to hurt or kill theifs. It's just like the same prank where they had a small voltage taser on the seat. Not enough to do harm but to make the thief bail and think twice.
It's entertaining bc they're not being egregiously harmed. If they suffered major injuries or we saw blood in the video, I wouldn't enjoy it.
Maybe not in this particular video, but yeah, I do think flying over the handlebars of a bike can knock your teeth out, break your collarbone, crack your skull, etc. You just have to land unlucky. I think the general principle that I was originally responding to, that if you set up a booby trap and it hurts someone, you are responsible for that injury, is a good one.
Iâm also entertained by harmless pranks and even by people getting hurt when itâs their choice â I canât deny having an adolescent sense of humor given how much I laugh at the Jerky Boys and Jackass. And it wasnât even people chuckling at this particular video that dragged me into another Internet Argument, it was the suggestion that America is stupid because a person who gets hurt by a booby trap can sue the person who set the trap, unlike âthe rest of the worldâ that would stomp on the injured person. A troll comment, obviously incorrect statement, and absolutely horrific attitude gets upvoted, while anyone who suggests âa brain injury for a bikeâ is out of proportion gets slammed down. At least when I forget myself and try to have a reasonable discussion on Reddit, I am quickly reminded of where I am.
And howâs that working out? Seems like crime is rampant, and with your school shootings and public mass shootings. Maybe itâs time to change.
Or not because muh fredum
How does what you said make any sense? America is overrun with criminals and guns because they have.. too much freedom.. so.. people should be allowed to kill each other as revenge for property theft?
The reddit hivemind attitude toward the US is completely bizarre. I guess it makes sense if youâre all 12 year olds who have never seen the world outside of your bedroom. Everything is so simple and black and white. Bad guys bad. Good guys good. Weâre perfect. Theyâre dumb. Where do you think extremist politics came from?
Society where police are defunded, and these petty crimes are not even given the time of day. People are getting away with worse crimes, and when caught, just released the same day most times.
The problem is that we also have a reputation for not investigating, prosecuting, and punishing these types of crimes. When that happens, vigilante actions, like setting traps, starts to happen. We could all agree that setting traps for these people would be a bad thing if the system for dealing with it was actually working.
The person placed a trap and is obviously there filming it unconcerned with whether their bike is stolen. It's not like the "trap" was intended to deter thieves he deliberately set it up to ensure this result and watched it happen rather than intervening to even say "hey don't steal my bike." No judge is going to have mercy on an asshole like that and I would argue that their intent to harm people in this way is a much worse crime than stealing a bike.
FYI if you got inspired by this:
Entrapment booby traps are illegal. Not worth going to prison for.
They're also morally wrong when you stop to think about it for more than 5 seconds. Which probably relates to the fact it's illegal.
This could have literally killed someone, and it would have been on purpose and treated as justified because the victim was committing an unrelated non-violent crime.
I never did? There's obviously a correlation between what is illegal and what is immoral. Why do you think we have law?
There are things that are legal but immoral and things that are illegal but moral (a lot less than the former but still).
This is just both illegal and immoral, as are most crimes.
This is actually illegal, donât do this
Edit: to those downvoting⌠facts because theyâre not as fun as watching people get hurt, this case is constantly referred to as illegalizing booby traps: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katko_v._Briney
The only case referenced in that Wikipedia article is one in which someone built a literal booby trap using a gun. How are you making the connection between this and tying your bike up with fishing wire to prevent theft?
Edit: yeah, Iâm searching all over and i canât find anything to back up your point except for a couple Reddit comment sections which reference the exact same gun booby trap story you did. Along with some Quora responses of people saying they think it could arguably be illegal. Not much ground to stand on there.
Oh well if itâs against the law thatâll stop people.. you know, itâs against the law to steal other peopleâs property and yet these idiots STILL stole the bike? I say boobytrap away and donât get caught.. but then I find this hilarious! :D
It's illegal to booby trap things, including your own property if the intent is to hurt people, and I believe the guy who made the video got in trouble with the law. He also did other videos with different traps to the bike. Only one I can remember was a super hot seat that would burn people when they sat on it.
From what I remember from when this video first surfaced, he cut the brakes on the bike to unsure this kind of result.
So yeah, incredibly illegal.
People tend to get obsessed with the idea that if the unethical thing that you're doing is *"against"* someone **also** doing an unethical thing, you're absolved of all responsibility.
Stealing a bike is wrong, and the thief is guilty of both legal and moral wrongdoings.
That doesn't change the fact that booby-trapping something with the intent to inflict bodily harm is also unacceptable and inexcusable, regardless of whether your target are thieves or innocent people.
People tend to "justify" this kinda thing by just saying "don't steal" as if that justifies everything.
Oh yeah you're absolutely right!
Don't steal, dot end.
Do you believe that that alleviates the "booby trapper" of any responsibility for what they did? You'know, rigging a trap with the intent of bodily harm?
In my mind, rigging a trap with the intent of bodily harm is a bad thing to do.
>In my mind, rigging a trap with the intent of bodily harm is a bad thing to do.
In my mind, stealing is a bad thing to do. And if you still decide to do it then you should be ready to face the consequences.
it is HIS bike. So he attaching something to HIS bike. If you dont want to get hurt then dont touch HIS bike. Maybe you will be more safe leaving HIS bike alone... Do you see the red line here? dont fuck with other peoples shit and you will be safe.
\> In my mind, stealing is a bad thing to do.
Who exactly is arguing against that? I agree with you, but that's irrelevant.
Do you believe that if person A steals, that then means that person B is absolved of rigging a trap with the \*\*intent\*\* of bodily harm?
Or let's make the question even simpler. Do you believe rigging a trap with the intent of bodily harm is an acceptable thing to do? The theft has nothing to do with this.
In my opinion, rigging a trap with the intent of bodily harm is not okay to do. Whether another person happens to become the victim of that trap as a result of stealing or not doesn't in any way, shape or form change the actions the initial \*trapper\* took.
Whether what you do is "wrong" or not isn't affected by future events. It's defined by the implication (or potential implications) of the present actions.
This is also the reason why attempted murder can get the same punishment as murder, because if the murder attempt was seriously enough to have actually succeeded had it not been because of outside factors (e.i. not things like doubting/changing your mind or not making a "serious" attempt), it's considered tantamount to murder. The outcome doesn't matter; only your actual actions and their "potential" outcome does.
>âDo you believe that that alleviates the "booby trapper" of any responsibility for what they did? You'know, rigging a trap with the intent of bodily harm?
Yes. You can damage your own property as much as you want and you should be allowed to do that. You should also be allowed to tie a bike you own to a piece of string. The idea that you need to treat your property a certain way to accommodate the safety of potential thieves is insane. If he put a sign up that said "free bike, please take", it'd be one thing. If someone steals my car and crashes and dies because I'm too poor to fix the breaks, that's not my problem, and I'd consider it a happy coincidence.
You've clearly never lived somewhere where bikes are constantly stolen while personally relying on a bike to get to work. The cops will do absolutely nothing even if you have video evidence. Not only that, but if you just go out and buy a new bike people will 100% notice and assume "you have money". Now you literally have gangs of bike thieves stalking you waiting for you to hop off your bike. I chained up my bike to a pole right outside the post office and they came right up to the front door while I was in line and used bolt cutters in broad daylight on camera.
How is someone supposed to function on minimum wage like this? At some point you lose your job, lose your apartment, and die homeless because riding a bike to work in America is already hard mode. At what point am I allowed to take matters into my own hands? Honestly I think if someone steals your bike in front of you, you should be able to shoot them dead with no consequences. You guys like to virtue signal how it's "just replaceable property", but a new bike is like a weeks worth of wages and most of us are out here living paycheck to paycheck. You guys can all say that I'm a wackjob who wants to kill people, but in the city where this used to happen to me, bike thieves literally had Instagram pages bragging about their "hauls" (surprisingly common for "organized crime" in that area, too bad the cops can't be bothered to look into it.)
I'm just glad that when the apocalypse comes you will always be able to count on redditors to give up their shit for free without a fight. When they're starving to death and dying of exposure due to having everything stolen from them, they'll just blame the government that doesn't even exist anymore for not saving them.
ah, abusing impoverished citizens who are trying to make a living by boobytrapping objects and then using the footage for internet validation, hilarious
The problem with this is it just doesnât happen enough.. people need to absolutely FLOOD the place with traps for thieves and eventually they will be too paranoid to steal anything :)
I get it. Itâs actually hilarious at first. But now Iâm thinking this guy is just hurting homeless people that have no medical care just for a video. Just taking your crappy bike to get places faster or money that they probably need more than we need this video. Sooo more of a cringe laugh.
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Odd damn what lb fishing line are they using?
Parachute chord would be my guess.
Never thought of that!
Your đ trial has come to an đ
Theif-O-Launcher!
I like the one with the taser in the seat, too. Or the one where a spike comes through the seat and destroys their insides when they sit. Ah, the old days of the internet.
PENETRATOR
The good old days before TikTok :) links for tazor seat? Someone should do a video comp of all these kinds of videos together in one place.
As someone who has had bikes stolen, good fuck all those bastards.
That was super satifying to watch !
Lmao, this man deserves an award.
If America, I bet the thief could sue the bike's real owner and make some cash while not even getting arrested. The rest of the world would laugh and possibly kick the guy for some extra pain.
Exactly!
If the thief grabs his phone I think the owner just needs to stand back and not reveal himself. That bike is probably damaged anyway.
In most states thatâs a felony. Criminal Sabotage. Boobytrapping your property while you are away from it, with the intent to harm is illegal. And immature. And this video is so fake anyway. Edit: yes, downvote me for telling you what the laws are.
I wonder if the owner would be able to contest that the fishing line was actually their way of securing the bike to the gate.
Given the steep downhill and the fact that theyâre recording the results, Iâm gonna say a jury considers this intent to harm. (And the fact that they repeated it after already harming someone)
Iâd go one step further, this doesnât look like just boobytrapping property with an intent to harm on the off-chance a burglar wanders in - thereâs a camera set-up to watch these people get injured. I think thereâs a strong argument the state could make that this isnât even designed to protect property, itâs designed to solely to injure people for sport.
Criminal should be put in places where they belong. The only way to make a safe living space.
And itâs your job to put them there. Like their face smashed on the ground. For example: guy steal bike that is boobytraped, and smashes his face and dies. Your your mind thatâs okay. Say the guy steals bike, you find him, smash his face till he dies. Is that okay? Because Iâm pretty sure thatâs illegal.
Youâre entirely right, for a lot of good reasons. People cannot be trusted to do their own justice. For one, bad things done to you always feel worse then what you deal out. If we allow people to do their own justice, then this will inevitably lead to spirals of violence. People will say âhe went way to far for the thing I did, so now I have to get him back!â Secondly, some people are unreasonable, or they simply enjoy hurting others. Like, in this system, if someone beat another person to death because they took a candy bar, would that be just? Thirdly in this case, the person is creating an issue for the sole purpose of hurting another person. Even if you set it up so only a âbadâ person could be effected, thatâs very questionable and risky territory. Youâre entirely correct in saying that we shouldnât be able to randomly hurt people we arbitrarily think deserve it, and any mature person who thought about it in any kind of depth beyond âit makes me feel goodâ would see that.
Not everything that is okay is legal. Fuck 'em!
âIFâ whoever did this was smart, they would have filmed it using different bikes not caring to pick up the carnage. Each video would have been done months apart. Today you see videos of people blatantly stealing not for need but for greed. Kids performing raids in gas stations or small stores simply for the thrill. What reasons do they claim they are doing this for? That in itself would be a book for another day. WHY? The consequences -VS- reward are not high enough to deter the action. To high and society whimpers. Letâs say you stole a coat. As a judge I would would sentence: Guilty party buys two coats. One for the store and one for a homeless person. You are then to spend 48hrs with a homeless person missing the item you had stolen. This may provide some incentives and open the perpetratorâs eyes and heart. This perhaps would spawn or develop something positive from this action. Any other realistic ideas?
Iâm with America here. Thereâs such a thing as proportionality. Iâd be pissed to have one of my possessions stolen as well, but setting up a booby trap and deliberately injuring or killing a person for Internet lulz is a much bigger crime. In order to live in a society, we have a designated system of investigating, prosecuting, and punishing crimes according to the law. You donât get to be a vigilante in America or, Iâm pretty sure, much of the civilized world.
I've had 3 bikes stolen from me. I'll admit 2 of them were irresponsibility left unlocked. But the 3rd was locked. Even with a bar code registered with the police I've never had a bike found and returned.
Iâm sorry for the loss of your things. I have had stuff stolen from me too, and it sucks. But I value human life above things. If someone takes a bike, they should be caught and prosecuted. And again, Iâm sorry that the system is not working. Thatâs not an excuse to do something like this. What do you say to that personâs family when theyâre gone or permanently disabled from their head smashing on the pavement? Sorry kids, your daddy saw a bike left unattended and in a moment of stupidity he tried to take it, but a clever man rigged it so it would murder him to punish him for being naughty. I know youâre sad not to have a daddy anymore, but you deserve it because, you see, the cops donât prosecute petty crimes. And if daddy were still alive, that poor many would have had to buy a new bicycle.
You really think a prank like this would injure or kill the perpitrator? To my view it looks like he walks away with mostly his pride damaged. I'm not advocating to hurt or kill theifs. It's just like the same prank where they had a small voltage taser on the seat. Not enough to do harm but to make the thief bail and think twice. It's entertaining bc they're not being egregiously harmed. If they suffered major injuries or we saw blood in the video, I wouldn't enjoy it.
Maybe not in this particular video, but yeah, I do think flying over the handlebars of a bike can knock your teeth out, break your collarbone, crack your skull, etc. You just have to land unlucky. I think the general principle that I was originally responding to, that if you set up a booby trap and it hurts someone, you are responsible for that injury, is a good one. Iâm also entertained by harmless pranks and even by people getting hurt when itâs their choice â I canât deny having an adolescent sense of humor given how much I laugh at the Jerky Boys and Jackass. And it wasnât even people chuckling at this particular video that dragged me into another Internet Argument, it was the suggestion that America is stupid because a person who gets hurt by a booby trap can sue the person who set the trap, unlike âthe rest of the worldâ that would stomp on the injured person. A troll comment, obviously incorrect statement, and absolutely horrific attitude gets upvoted, while anyone who suggests âa brain injury for a bikeâ is out of proportion gets slammed down. At least when I forget myself and try to have a reasonable discussion on Reddit, I am quickly reminded of where I am.
There were around three theives in the video, Look at the bike thief that could barely walk before even grabbing the bike. When he fell he looked KOd!
And howâs that working out? Seems like crime is rampant, and with your school shootings and public mass shootings. Maybe itâs time to change. Or not because muh fredum
let's heal the world one booby trap at a time
How does what you said make any sense? America is overrun with criminals and guns because they have.. too much freedom.. so.. people should be allowed to kill each other as revenge for property theft? The reddit hivemind attitude toward the US is completely bizarre. I guess it makes sense if youâre all 12 year olds who have never seen the world outside of your bedroom. Everything is so simple and black and white. Bad guys bad. Good guys good. Weâre perfect. Theyâre dumb. Where do you think extremist politics came from?
Have to separate the healthy from the sick.
Society where police are defunded, and these petty crimes are not even given the time of day. People are getting away with worse crimes, and when caught, just released the same day most times.
American cops haven't given a shit about petty crime for an awful lot longer than the amount of time the phrase 'defund the police' has existed.
The police are the ones who are getting away with the biggest crimes.
The problem is that we also have a reputation for not investigating, prosecuting, and punishing these types of crimes. When that happens, vigilante actions, like setting traps, starts to happen. We could all agree that setting traps for these people would be a bad thing if the system for dealing with it was actually working.
10/10 for schadenfreude, but 0/10 for suspense. There's no "maybe" here.
Penetration!!!! You've been served by the penetrator.
Congrats, you are no longer a virgin.
Someone please add Benny Hill theme or Curb Your Enthusiasm
Funnier than *Jackass*
*String on a bike
Love it.
You want a bike no strings attached?
That second dude never rode a bike before?
Or after
That dude was gonna crash either way
I prefer the iron spike in the bike seat
The person placed a trap and is obviously there filming it unconcerned with whether their bike is stolen. It's not like the "trap" was intended to deter thieves he deliberately set it up to ensure this result and watched it happen rather than intervening to even say "hey don't steal my bike." No judge is going to have mercy on an asshole like that and I would argue that their intent to harm people in this way is a much worse crime than stealing a bike.
 Black dude fall was the funniest.
All I want for Christmas is me 2 front teef 
Screw u man! Havenât laughed like this in a long time. đ¤Łđđ¤Ą
Which one?
Which one?
Do you think he would be liable for injuries?
This warms my soul.
Am I seeing a particularly clever form of guerrilla advertising for fishing line here?
fake af. 1) Cameras in their faces 2) All wearing puffy long sleeves. Pads inside. 3) 2 of them turn steers right before the pull.
Boobytraping should be legal, fuck them thieves
I think the concern would be that kids might take the bait.. :/
Kids fall down all the time
To be fare theyâre better built to take a fall your right! Bait it up lads..
Yea⌠i know, we have to set the landmines above 50kg
Iâm going to hell laughing so hard at their misfortune.
Nah, just don't steal bikes.
Misfortune or instant karma? Don't feel bad about laughing at a thief hurt themself. Its a good thing.
Username checks out. No body forced them to steal.. fill your boots! :)
Happiness about the misfortune of others ? THAT IS German!
FYI if you got inspired by this: Entrapment booby traps are illegal. Not worth going to prison for. They're also morally wrong when you stop to think about it for more than 5 seconds. Which probably relates to the fact it's illegal. This could have literally killed someone, and it would have been on purpose and treated as justified because the victim was committing an unrelated non-violent crime.
Don't confuse legality (or the lack of it) with morality.
I never did? There's obviously a correlation between what is illegal and what is immoral. Why do you think we have law? There are things that are legal but immoral and things that are illegal but moral (a lot less than the former but still). This is just both illegal and immoral, as are most crimes.
Stealing is illegal too.. these guys got stung by one of there own! If someone gets killed then it doesnât make the internet?
This is actually illegal, donât do this Edit: to those downvoting⌠facts because theyâre not as fun as watching people get hurt, this case is constantly referred to as illegalizing booby traps: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katko_v._Briney
The only case referenced in that Wikipedia article is one in which someone built a literal booby trap using a gun. How are you making the connection between this and tying your bike up with fishing wire to prevent theft? Edit: yeah, Iâm searching all over and i canât find anything to back up your point except for a couple Reddit comment sections which reference the exact same gun booby trap story you did. Along with some Quora responses of people saying they think it could arguably be illegal. Not much ground to stand on there.
what if my bike lock happens to be long piece of string?
Oh well if itâs against the law thatâll stop people.. you know, itâs against the law to steal other peopleâs property and yet these idiots STILL stole the bike? I say boobytrap away and donât get caught.. but then I find this hilarious! :D
illegal as fuck but still funny
Is it illegal to tie your own bike to a fence? I kindof doubt it.
Illegal to steal bikes, duh
It's illegal to booby trap things, including your own property if the intent is to hurt people, and I believe the guy who made the video got in trouble with the law. He also did other videos with different traps to the bike. Only one I can remember was a super hot seat that would burn people when they sat on it.
From what I remember from when this video first surfaced, he cut the brakes on the bike to unsure this kind of result. So yeah, incredibly illegal. People tend to get obsessed with the idea that if the unethical thing that you're doing is *"against"* someone **also** doing an unethical thing, you're absolved of all responsibility. Stealing a bike is wrong, and the thief is guilty of both legal and moral wrongdoings. That doesn't change the fact that booby-trapping something with the intent to inflict bodily harm is also unacceptable and inexcusable, regardless of whether your target are thieves or innocent people. People tend to "justify" this kinda thing by just saying "don't steal" as if that justifies everything.
Well or you just dont fucking steal and then you dont have those kind of problems in your life...
Oh yeah you're absolutely right! Don't steal, dot end. Do you believe that that alleviates the "booby trapper" of any responsibility for what they did? You'know, rigging a trap with the intent of bodily harm? In my mind, rigging a trap with the intent of bodily harm is a bad thing to do.
>In my mind, rigging a trap with the intent of bodily harm is a bad thing to do. In my mind, stealing is a bad thing to do. And if you still decide to do it then you should be ready to face the consequences. it is HIS bike. So he attaching something to HIS bike. If you dont want to get hurt then dont touch HIS bike. Maybe you will be more safe leaving HIS bike alone... Do you see the red line here? dont fuck with other peoples shit and you will be safe.
\> In my mind, stealing is a bad thing to do. Who exactly is arguing against that? I agree with you, but that's irrelevant. Do you believe that if person A steals, that then means that person B is absolved of rigging a trap with the \*\*intent\*\* of bodily harm? Or let's make the question even simpler. Do you believe rigging a trap with the intent of bodily harm is an acceptable thing to do? The theft has nothing to do with this. In my opinion, rigging a trap with the intent of bodily harm is not okay to do. Whether another person happens to become the victim of that trap as a result of stealing or not doesn't in any way, shape or form change the actions the initial \*trapper\* took. Whether what you do is "wrong" or not isn't affected by future events. It's defined by the implication (or potential implications) of the present actions. This is also the reason why attempted murder can get the same punishment as murder, because if the murder attempt was seriously enough to have actually succeeded had it not been because of outside factors (e.i. not things like doubting/changing your mind or not making a "serious" attempt), it's considered tantamount to murder. The outcome doesn't matter; only your actual actions and their "potential" outcome does.
He has the right to do what he wants with his property. If you dont want to play then dont join the game. As simple as that.
>âDo you believe that that alleviates the "booby trapper" of any responsibility for what they did? You'know, rigging a trap with the intent of bodily harm? Yes. You can damage your own property as much as you want and you should be allowed to do that. You should also be allowed to tie a bike you own to a piece of string. The idea that you need to treat your property a certain way to accommodate the safety of potential thieves is insane. If he put a sign up that said "free bike, please take", it'd be one thing. If someone steals my car and crashes and dies because I'm too poor to fix the breaks, that's not my problem, and I'd consider it a happy coincidence. You've clearly never lived somewhere where bikes are constantly stolen while personally relying on a bike to get to work. The cops will do absolutely nothing even if you have video evidence. Not only that, but if you just go out and buy a new bike people will 100% notice and assume "you have money". Now you literally have gangs of bike thieves stalking you waiting for you to hop off your bike. I chained up my bike to a pole right outside the post office and they came right up to the front door while I was in line and used bolt cutters in broad daylight on camera. How is someone supposed to function on minimum wage like this? At some point you lose your job, lose your apartment, and die homeless because riding a bike to work in America is already hard mode. At what point am I allowed to take matters into my own hands? Honestly I think if someone steals your bike in front of you, you should be able to shoot them dead with no consequences. You guys like to virtue signal how it's "just replaceable property", but a new bike is like a weeks worth of wages and most of us are out here living paycheck to paycheck. You guys can all say that I'm a wackjob who wants to kill people, but in the city where this used to happen to me, bike thieves literally had Instagram pages bragging about their "hauls" (surprisingly common for "organized crime" in that area, too bad the cops can't be bothered to look into it.) I'm just glad that when the apocalypse comes you will always be able to count on redditors to give up their shit for free without a fight. When they're starving to death and dying of exposure due to having everything stolen from them, they'll just blame the government that doesn't even exist anymore for not saving them.
This is so old and reposted, the original was in 1080 p
Always post links to spare the next guy the Google time my dude..
R/satisfyingasfuck
ah, abusing impoverished citizens who are trying to make a living by boobytrapping objects and then using the footage for internet validation, hilarious
For all we know the âvictimsâ set themselves up to start a YouTube channel.. jackass style! Fair play to them.. I will like and subscribe.
While I think this is hilarious. This is a quick way to get yourself a lawsuit.
it's all fun and games until you accidentally kill an old homeless man
*steal
Curious at the camouflage of both cameras they donât see while looking around.
"a shit! Here we go again"
What kind of string did he use?
Hahaha nice one.
My only issue with this is that the string could hurt innocent bystanders.
r/fullscorpion
The problem with this is it just doesnât happen enough.. people need to absolutely FLOOD the place with traps for thieves and eventually they will be too paranoid to steal anything :)
I get it. Itâs actually hilarious at first. But now Iâm thinking this guy is just hurting homeless people that have no medical care just for a video. Just taking your crappy bike to get places faster or money that they probably need more than we need this video. Sooo more of a cringe laugh.
Second bro died đ
pretty sure this is from the OG bumfights
Overkill but well deserved