Watch your step...

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-5...ail-police-say/

While these guys should have realized how stupid it was, it’s not something I’d put past younger boys. When I was about 5, my friend and I laid out an entire box of thumb tacks across to door to my room to “keep the bad guys out”. Then my mom called us for lunch…

Yikes! Thanks for the post/warning.

I was reading about that yesterday and it turned my stomach. Did you see those booby traps? It makes me sick to think that the two young men (and they're certain old enough to know better) would get their jollies off the thought that another person would get hurt by their contraptions. Stepping on punji sticks or getting that spiked ball in the chest or head is just too sick.

I think many of us are all too numb to the level of violence we keep reading about daily, but this takes it to another level of brutality.

Thank goodness that park ranger on patrol spotted it before anyone else stumbled onto it. Job well done, ranger!

Yeah and I hope they get whats coming to them,
And I'm near there in provo.

Lee

They're charged with misdemeanor reckless endangerment, which is a light charge. That's basically the same charge if somebody is driving carelessly while talking on their cell phone. If somebody had died from a trap, Murder One would be appropriate.

For regular hikers, now this crap is going to be on their minds when they're just trying to escape the stress of their normal lives.

Happens too often on single track and even paved bike trails. I've seen stories of the wire stretched across the trail a couple times.

I probably would have spotted them, having had experience with similar devices, but the average hiker probably wouldn't have. They should have far more serious charges leveled at them. Out here the pot farmers hang fish hooks at eye level in trees to help discourage the curious from finding thier crops. The black massers booby trap the ereas where thier alters are. And a year or two back a grown man, who looked to be of average intelligence strung a heavy steel cable betweeen two trees on a popular but illegal ATV and dirt biike trail on public land, at chest level. As far as I know he was never prosecuted.

Not exactly related, but it reminded me of the store about some kids who strung Gorilla Tape across the road sticky side up and waited for the cars to drive over it. I guess its a fairly good way to disembowel a drive train.