And since he’s obviously, through the glasses and haircut, trying to morph himself in the image of the Cory D. Of My Dreams, well, so much the better.

Fuck the law. This is not up for public debate. “I built it.” Didn’t ask. Fuck consensus.

*Sigh*…i can’t believe the girls are fighting over him…I’m so lonely…if only they understood me…

He’s been Fleshbotted.

I was traumatized. For a week afterwards I would leave my old bike out on the porch as bait and sit silently fuming behind the front door with a baseball bat.

Bike thieves suck.

I still had to work that second job all summer to pay for the bike.

I also liked the options of removing the quick-release lever on the front hub and unhooking the brakes.

@#3: A nice shot of the man’s shorts (thank God) at 3:15. For a laugh, pause at 3:18.

Bike theives suck indeed. But I’d rather get a new bike than electro-shock another human being.

So you would rather people take all of your things? I don’t understand how anyone can make the argument against these types of traps in favor of protecting the thief. You purchase something, it is yours and you own it, clearly you should be able to modify your own property, and assuming that the other person follows the law they will never encounter your trap. They have to break the law and more importantly violate your personal rights/property… if only there was a way to make sure it WAS fatal every time.

The entire defense industry fails to grasp your logic.

A geo-locating transmitter activated by an accelerometer would be worth having a few of. It would send out coordinates every time its moves or comes to a stop. You could get location by text message with a link to google maps…
I’ve had a bike stolen stolen for as many teeth as I have, and I still have all my teeth.

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Actually, Texas is a “Stand Your Ground”-law state, which allows even more leeway over Castle Doctrine.

It means you have no duty to retreat anywhere, including car or public.

Harris County just acquitted a man for fatally shooting two illegal immigrants that were robbing his neighbor’s garage.

Such booby traps are illegal.

But how else can I protect my residence from sneak and peek searches? er, I mean home invaders.

Looking at things through the pragmatic lens of Kant’s categorical imperative, perhaps we should all agree to kill all thieves regardless of circumstances. Either there isn’t enough stuff to go around, so we need to reduce population, or there isn’t equitable distribution of stuff, so we need to provide impetus to thieves to direct their efforts to rebelling against the power-brokers who control distribution of stuff rather than towards thievery, or the thieves are sociopaths, in which case society benefits from their elimination. Encouraging the vigilante murder of thieves as a civic virtue (“Yer Honor, he had stolen stuff” – “Oh, OK, you’re free to go then”) might result in a more polite and equitable society, and over time might actually result in less crime and fewer deaths than our current (sloppy) attempts at categorizing property crimes based on circumstances.

–Charlie

PS: If the above offends you, look up the definition of “perhaps” in a good dictionary.

–C