I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled

Re:I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled by fuzxi on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @01:36AM (#27273059)

Booby traps are illegal if designed to cause bodily harm. It's not so cut-and-dry when it's something merely annoying, like a glitter bomb, though I would definitely not want to be the manufacturer trying to defend that in court.

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Re:I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled by dragonwriter on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @01:47AM (#27273157)

Pepper spray, whose purpose is to cause bodily harm, was included in the list of ingredients, so the described booby trap would, indeed, be a prohibited “intended to cause bodily harm” one. (Actually, not only do the general laws on booby traps come into play, but using pepper spray other than in immediate self-defense in California is a crime.)

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Re:I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled by fuzxi on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @01:49AM (#27273169)

I realize that. That's why I said "annoying", not "less-than-lethal", and used glitter as an example.

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Re:I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled by dheera on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @01:51AM (#27273188)

Hm, okay, so let's take the pepper spray out then. Ink, honey, feathers, flour, glitter, fart spray.

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