Man dies in his own booby-trapped house

[Mister Frag 0]

From http://www.reuters.com/news_ar....1542423

Man Dies in His Own Booby-Trapped House

October 07, 2002 08:42 AM ET

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Belgian man died of a gunshot wound after setting booby-traps throughout his house using hunting rifles and explosives, to police and local news reports said Sunday.

The 80-year-old former chemical engineer had apparently set the traps to prevent his children from entering the house after a family dispute in the town of Aiseau-Presles near Charleroi, south of Brussels, the local Belga news agency said.

Police, who had worked from before dawn searching and dismantling the traps, had yet to determine whether the man died from self-inflicted wounds or one of his own traps, it said.

"(The traps are in) the whole house," a police officer told the RTBF television network. "It's very, very dangerous."

They were set to go off with the opening of a door or some other makeshift trigger, the officer said.

[RaptorAce 0]

hahahahahahahahahahaha

god damn idiots... only thing they're good for is a laugh

What the hell was he thinking? If the kids go in there, they die? Oh thats a good idea, just yell at em for Christ's sake. Serves the dumbass right.

hahahahahahahhaaha

[Placebo 29]

He was 80, what will your mind be like at 80?

[Supah 0]

He might have suffered from dementia. Nothing to laugh at honestly.

[Renagade 0]

Hey u dont what his children could of been like

[Duke_of_Ray 0]

Kinda got what he was asking for.

[Placebo 29]

Don't parents teach empathy, compassion or understanding these days?

[Placebo 29]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Duke_of_Ray @ Oct. 08 2002,22:11)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Kinda got what he was asking for. <span id='postcolor'>

That's not a very Christian attitude DOR, you should be ashamed.

[Duke_of_Ray 0]

Did I say he got what he deserves? It is a sad story, but when a person does things like this and they get killed or hurt themselves they get what they asked for, not what thye deserved, but what they asked for.

[Placebo 29]

Got what he asked for and got what he deserved are to my mind the same thing, or at the very least semantics.

I would doubt that someone in a fit state of mind would do what he did, so are you saying he asked for dementia? or paranoia? or Alzheimer's or whatever else may have been wrong with him?

To my mind the attitude we should be having is not one of laughter, not one of saying he got what he deserved (asked for) but one of hoping and praying that nothing like that happens to us, or those around us that we love, we all grow old, a lot of us will suffer some problems from old age, my Nan is 85, she has pretty bad dementia but nothing more serious than thinking I'm my Mum's brother and not her grandson. The old should be respected and treated with compassion, not ridiculed.

[Duke_of_Ray 0]

To my knowledge he did not deserve what ahppend to him, but what ever it is it is a very very sad thing, as i have said before. I can see your point placebo, but still I can see......

[Cloney 0]

I think DOR is changing what he said because he was yelled at. DOR, I say you keep your opinions instead of changing them to suit what other people. No offense to Placebo, because I agree with him completely, I just find it annoying that you are apologizing about your opinions then changing them to keep the P-Man happy. Makes you look a bit dumb.

[Duke_of_Ray 0]

I can see Placebo's point, and its a very good one. I do not change my opinion to make him happy, I still say the guy still got what he asked for by doing it, but if he was sick it is a different story, and sometimes you need somebody to point things out.

[RaptorAce 0]

If he was sick, I'll take back what I said, but I too think this guy was an idiot if he wasnt sick.

[SirLoins 0]

Nothing in that story suggested anything wrong with this guys mind.

Being stupid isn't a disease. If it is, there's a lot of sick people in the world.

80+ years old means nothing. My grandmother lived to be 98 and was sharp as a tack.

This guy killed himself by his own means.

I am glad it was him instead of an innocent bystander.

[Tex -USMC- 0]

"ye will reap what ye have sown, and if ye sow booby traps, dont be surprised when you get your face blown off."

I read that somewhere...

[DarkLight 0]

Hmz, the guy was 80 years old, he probable forgot where he put one of his booby traps. And when he opened the door...

[Major Fubar 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (placebo @ Oct. 08 2002,23:16)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Duke_of_Ray @ Oct. 08 2002,22:11)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Kinda got what he was asking for. <span id='postcolor'>

That's not a very Christian attitude DOR, you should be ashamed.<span id='postcolor'>

I thought these forums were open to people of all denominations, not just Christians...

Senile or not, this old coot was setting traps to kill or maim other people, better he got shot than someone else, yes?

[vade_101 0]

I Feel bad for the police who had to go in and defuse that little lot.

[CosmicCastaway 0]

He can't have been THAT senile, I mean c'mon, he managed to set all the damn things up in the first place.  

[Renagade 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Major Fubar @ Oct. 09 2002,17:11)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (placebo @ Oct. 08 2002,23:16)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Duke_of_Ray @ Oct. 08 2002,22:11)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Kinda got what he was asking for. <span id='postcolor'>

That's not a very Christian attitude DOR, you should be ashamed.<span id='postcolor'>

I thought these forums were open to people of all denominations, not just Christians...

Senile or not, this old coot was setting traps to kill or maim other people, better he got shot than someone else, yes?<span id='postcolor'>

and if someone was breaking into his house.........

[Major Fubar 0]

And if some kids were doing it for a prank?

Sorry, you can't justify lethal traps around your home with "home defence". The laws are quite specific about this.

[RaptorAce 0]

Theres some people who do pranks at night to houses around mine... You don't see me placing pungee pits and claymores around my house, do you?

[Kermit 0]

Being crazy or demented does not mean that a person is stupid or senile.

[Major Fubar 0]

But it can mean they are dangerous.