Additionally while many focus on the firearms aspect of things, I've viewed that as the least important Food, water, medical supplies, the ability to provide for warmth or cooling if the grid goes down...and how to use the gear you acquired were much higher on the list of things to do.
But now I'm seeing stuff like this and it scares the shit out of me. Check out the pics below....
A long time ago (by today's standards) the Marine Corps actually taught how to construct such traps. Oh and the first is called a bear trap.
Someone dug thru old SERE and Improvised Device Manuals (I don't know the FM number ...and yeah the Marine Corps taught from Army Manuals) and is now making this stuff public.
This isn't a big deal for city dwellers but for those of us that run around in the woods this is troubling. Imagine a couple of kids running around in the woods and they accidentally cross someone's property line and they have stuff like this planted? If they've watched enough Vietnam war movies then they can add certain "substances" to make the wound even nastier.
Yeah. Now the Prepper Movement is starting to scare me.
Sidenote: The article is here.
Basically illegal. One is allowed to defend. But a sure way to end up on the wrong end of the local district attorney is to be up on charges that someone was injured with a booby trap. Good luck with that. Dim-wits in any 'movement' don't make it bad.
ReplyDeleteyeah. great point. both of them. the issue is that someone is going to probably get hurt real bad because of another individuals paranoia.
ReplyDeleteWow, blast from the past. :) The VW stuff is at least 40 years old. Remember a lot of it. As for proliferation, most people who "Prep" are primarily those who think long term and with a sense of responsibility to protect, not the kind of person who leaves lethal traps lying around, so I don't think it is a big problem. Long term responsible planner and "idiot who randomly bobby traps" are a contradiction in terms.
ReplyDeleteThere's no harm in knowing how to do it, nor having the kit.
ReplyDeleteBut you'd have to be pretty f-in stupid to do it.
Attempted murder if you are lucky, off to Gitmo if you arent
There are two different types of preppers and I don't mean delusional and sane in their personal choice of what to be afraid of. Frankly I don't care if you do it to ward of the next big spacedinosaur invasion or a global blackout. The difference I do care about is safe ( and legal) vs unsafe.
ReplyDeleteDigging holes all around your own property and burying weapons is fine doing so in some abandoned lot, park or out in the woods is not. A few years ago some kids playing found a hidden Gladio stash here in Europe showing that how ever well you hide it someone might find it and use it in a dangerous way.
But like ELP said, that does not make the whole movement bad.
I am fully aware the risk of some major catastrophe that prepping could be useful for is remote, One is much more likely to die from being hit by a car or from that extra doughnut a day. But even knowing that, if I had the spare money I would build an 'Eco-house' with a big vegetable-plot, not becouse of the 'eco' part, but because a self-sustained house would make you independent from public services. Ad to that a generous stock of supplies, my own small collection of ww2 guns and a Toyota pickup and I would be 'prepped'.
I probably would never need it, but you never know AND I would not (potentially) hurt anyone else!