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April 27, 2012
Utah Men Jailed After Bragging on Facebook About Booby-Trapping Hiking Trail
By Chad Love
Two Utah wingnuts are behind bars after setting a series of bizarre booby traps on a popular hiking trail. Then (as all master criminals seem to do these days) they bragged about it on Facebook.
From this story on Gawker.com:
Two men whose parents did not raise them well have been arrested in Utah after allegedly setting up potentially deadly homemade booby traps to ensnare travelers along a popular hiking trail. One of the traps was designed to send a tripped victim tumbling into a bed of pointy wooden stakes protruding from the ground. Another, pictured above, was to be triggered via a fishing line trip wire; when crossed, it would send a 20-pound boulder, to which several sharpened spikes had been affixed with what looks to be just tons and tons and tons of rope, speeding at a victim's head. The traps were set around the entrance to a makeshift wooden shelter used by hikers as a sleepover and campfire site.
They were discovered by a patrolling forest ranger, who was able to disable them. He speculated they were designed to catch travelers passing through in the dark. Investigators tracked down the two men suspected of setting the traps, Benjamin Steven Rutkowski, 19, and Kai Matthew Christensen, 21, after receiving a tip the suspects had bragged about the traps on their Facebook pages.
We've all heard of (or maybe even run across) booby-trapped marijuana patches on public land. And as horrible as that is, at least there's an evil, twisted logic to it. But this? Sometimes the mind boggles at the number of unknown psychos out there...
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Comments (16)
Truly sad. I'm sure whatever punishment they get will be half of what they deserve. I'm just glad the officer was able to see and disarm them before anyone was hurt.
I'm really glad no one was hurt and that the ranger who dismantled the traps served in Iraq and Afganistan dismantling IED's.
It's truly sad that after serving he gets to come home to this nonsense. All they can dig up is misdemeanor charges which seems to me is pretty lame.
this world never stops amazing me with the stupid people that are out there. glad to see there was no harm done. hats off to the ranger
What an "you know what" Im sure it will be just a slap on the hand...should have made him walk through his own booby-trap..Glad no one got hurt..
Should make the boys try out their own traps. Short of being tortured death, there is not a punishment equal to their crime. Just imagine if that was your daughter, son, or wife hiking into that shelter for the evening.
I think they may have watched Hunger Games and thought it was OK to do this for real. Some of our young people today do not seem to be skilled at separating fantasy from reality. These people seem to spend a majority of their time in electronic entertainment, whether it be movies, games or Facebook.
Im only in my late twenties and I have caught myself saying "Kids these days" more times than I can count lately.
send rambo out in the woods with a knife to set up theire punishment zone, then helidrop them into the middle of it in the middle of the night, and if they come out in the morning then maybe they will have learned :D
If you can't tie a knot tie alot! They ought to have a dry sponge on their heads when their switch gets flipped.
If I were the lawyer in this case, I would find the average amount of people who go through the trails a day. Then, I would argue that many cases of attempted murder against them.
"Men"!? Anymore, 21 is still a kid. The days of being a man at 18 are over for most of the general population. It's sad! And these "kids" need their @$$'s beat!
Going off of what was already said, if these guys think they're so good and smart with wilderness by setting up a few traps that can hurt people just for a few laughs I'd like to see what these clowns would look like with a real wilderness situation. And by this I mean let's see them try and outsmart someone who truly knows their way around the brush. Hunters feel free to chime in here, and these idiots think they know something? I'd love to air drop these guys man vs. wild style and see if they can make it back to civilization because hey, they must know the wilderness well if they can set elaborate traps for unsuspecting victims on the trail... What a bunch of garbage, I hope these cowards receive a punishment that makes them regret ever trying pull a stunt like that for the rest of their lives
And they vote!
They should be tried as if this did work. Could you imagine being out with your kids and them falling victim to one of these? The prosecutor needs to find something heavy to hit them with.
i hope they get the worst punishment the law allows.
One-to do something that dangerous to a public hiking trail, and two- to brag about it on a public network.
anyway, thats just my opinion.
They should be sent away to a mental facility. They should be tried for attempted murder, and premeditation, on top of the Littering and improper use of trapping charges.
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I'm really glad no one was hurt and that the ranger who dismantled the traps served in Iraq and Afganistan dismantling IED's.
It's truly sad that after serving he gets to come home to this nonsense. All they can dig up is misdemeanor charges which seems to me is pretty lame.
Should make the boys try out their own traps. Short of being tortured death, there is not a punishment equal to their crime. Just imagine if that was your daughter, son, or wife hiking into that shelter for the evening.
I think they may have watched Hunger Games and thought it was OK to do this for real. Some of our young people today do not seem to be skilled at separating fantasy from reality. These people seem to spend a majority of their time in electronic entertainment, whether it be movies, games or Facebook.
send rambo out in the woods with a knife to set up theire punishment zone, then helidrop them into the middle of it in the middle of the night, and if they come out in the morning then maybe they will have learned :D
If I were the lawyer in this case, I would find the average amount of people who go through the trails a day. Then, I would argue that many cases of attempted murder against them.
Truly sad. I'm sure whatever punishment they get will be half of what they deserve. I'm just glad the officer was able to see and disarm them before anyone was hurt.
this world never stops amazing me with the stupid people that are out there. glad to see there was no harm done. hats off to the ranger
What an "you know what" Im sure it will be just a slap on the hand...should have made him walk through his own booby-trap..Glad no one got hurt..
Im only in my late twenties and I have caught myself saying "Kids these days" more times than I can count lately.
If you can't tie a knot tie alot! They ought to have a dry sponge on their heads when their switch gets flipped.
"Men"!? Anymore, 21 is still a kid. The days of being a man at 18 are over for most of the general population. It's sad! And these "kids" need their @$$'s beat!
And they vote!
They should be tried as if this did work. Could you imagine being out with your kids and them falling victim to one of these? The prosecutor needs to find something heavy to hit them with.
Going off of what was already said, if these guys think they're so good and smart with wilderness by setting up a few traps that can hurt people just for a few laughs I'd like to see what these clowns would look like with a real wilderness situation. And by this I mean let's see them try and outsmart someone who truly knows their way around the brush. Hunters feel free to chime in here, and these idiots think they know something? I'd love to air drop these guys man vs. wild style and see if they can make it back to civilization because hey, they must know the wilderness well if they can set elaborate traps for unsuspecting victims on the trail... What a bunch of garbage, I hope these cowards receive a punishment that makes them regret ever trying pull a stunt like that for the rest of their lives
i hope they get the worst punishment the law allows.
One-to do something that dangerous to a public hiking trail, and two- to brag about it on a public network.
anyway, thats just my opinion.
They should be sent away to a mental facility. They should be tried for attempted murder, and premeditation, on top of the Littering and improper use of trapping charges.
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