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• PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If Boris is being shot and explodes, the likelihood of the home owner already being killed by ICE or other agents is pretty high.

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  • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ah, so your idea is a dead-man’s-switch, clever.

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    • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Doesn’t even need that. If Boris is in the foyer, I’m answering the front door. If push comes to shove and I’m killed at the front door, they already know a threat exists. Then they enter the house and attempt to detain Boris.

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  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I don’t think borris needs to explode for him to be discovered and you to be charged lol

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    • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      If I’m dead, who are they charging? And who’s charging me when Boris kills the rest of them who killed me?

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      • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        If he doesn’t explode, why have you and everyone else died?

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• Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Gotta ask though, if it needs to be shot to go off, is that really a booby trap? I have draino in my house, that isn’t a trap. Maybe you have to put a sign on it saying don’t shoot?

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  • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It would absolutely, 100% go to trial, and the prosecution could easily prove an intent to harm.

    As much as the Better Call Saul kinds of legal arguments look clever on TV, in reality the law is much more about vibes and how people interpret what happened.

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    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There’s a lot of reasonableness and average person would expect in law, but needing a supersonic bullet to hit it is well out of reasonable territory.

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    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I just wonder where the line is. Is it intent to harm. So if say the thing was a gift, and they didn’t know it was explosive. Would that absolve the person of guilt. Maybe it goes to manslaughter in that case?

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      • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        There are a lot of serious laws in the US about owning, transporting and storing explosives (thank you Anarchist bomber movement last century) as well as requirements for permits and the like, so you would have to prove it was a “gift” and not intended to be used for anything, but even then you would not only face negligence charges/manslaughter if someone was killed, but also various kinds of “aggravated” charges related to public safety. I am not a lawyer but I have a feeling the prosecution would make a pretty heavy case to make an example.

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