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Viva_La_Revolution

(28,791 posts) Tue Apr 24, 2012, 11:58 AM Apr 2012

Dangerous booby traps found on popular Utah trail [View all]

Source: AP

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The 20-pound spiked boulder was rigged to swing at head-level with just a trip of a thin wire - a military-like booby trap set on a popular Utah canyon trail.

Any unsuspecting hiker exploring the makeshift dead-wood shelter could have fallen prey.

Two men arrested over the weekend on suspicion of misdemeanor reckless endangerment told authorities the traps were intended for wildlife, but investigators don't believe the story.

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Dangerous booby traps found on popular Utah trail [View all] Viva_La_Revolution Apr 2012 OP

Misdemeanor reckless endangerment? Drale Apr 2012 #1

+1 freshwest Apr 2012 #2

I'm glad they caught these assholes. bluedigger Apr 2012 #3

Utah wants to confiscate national park land. This would discourage people from using it as intended. freshwest Apr 2012 #4

Hate to say it but these kinds of traps are typically set by environmentalists HotRodTuna Apr 2012 #5

Yep blame the environmentalist...they are the real terrorist. zeemike Apr 2012 #7

Your agenda Dogtown Apr 2012 #10

+1 obamanut2012 Apr 2012 #15

My agenda is for people not to get killed HotRodTuna Apr 2012 #18

Yet you referred to them as environmentalists NoGOPZone Apr 2012 #23

First words that came to mind as that's typicall what they try and wrap themselves in HotRodTuna Apr 2012 #28

The first words that come to my mind NoGOPZone Apr 2012 #33

Here, I'll post some more fiction in support of your point... xocet Apr 2012 #11

I wonder how many "my friend's uncles" have had the same thing happen. bigmonkey Apr 2012 #12

Well, I went to 3 years undergrad with him in the same geology program, I know his family HotRodTuna Apr 2012 #19

How would a spike in a tree hurt a mountain biker? obamanut2012 Apr 2012 #22

This was in regard to my comment about a lumberjack who, I was told by HotRodTuna Apr 2012 #27

Hate to say it, but you sound like the Lord's Avenger. Do you remember Judi Bari? Octafish Apr 2012 #13

Links to that? obamanut2012 Apr 2012 #14

links. HotRodTuna Apr 2012 #20

I still don't see any links saying an evil enviromentalist did this obamanut2012 Apr 2012 #24

I didn't say an "evil environmentalist" did this HotRodTuna Apr 2012 #31

I wonder how many of your "friends' uncle's acquaintances" have run into these strung wires... Earth_First Apr 2012 #16

I don't know anyone that's run into a wire, but there was a case in the UK HotRodTuna Apr 2012 #21

You just said it doesn't happen obamanut2012 Apr 2012 #26

Well, it happened in Utah HotRodTuna Apr 2012 #29

My thought, too obamanut2012 Apr 2012 #25

Love to say it, but these types of traps are not typical of anything but STUPID! L. Coyote Apr 2012 #30

What the hell is a chainsaw blade? You need to come up with some kind of proof for this b.s. nm rhett o rick Jul 2012 #34

sounds like two survivalist morons. nt Javaman Apr 2012 #6

These guys don;t want you near their pot plot Hangingon Apr 2012 #8

domestic terrorism atheous Apr 2012 #9

Geez Omaha Steve Apr 2012 #17

When did the AP declare "one" to be plural? L. Coyote Apr 2012 #32