tripwire in bush

[chiangmaimav]

A friend of mine in central Thailand was recently walking in mountains about a mile from his house when he heard a click sound. He looked down and he had stepped into a tripwire. it was attached to a homemadeflintlock rifle, and the click was the hammer falling. Luckily it misfired. This is not in a remote jungle area, though it is not densely populated. Turns out many poachers and farmers here employ this kind of device. I think it is idiotic, and illegal here also. Just a warning in case anyone coming to or living in Thailand reads this forum.

[mitch.chesney]

We (USA) have drug farmers in many of the southern national parks who employ some insidious traps. Treble hooks at eye level, cyanide mines, punji stakes, etc.

[chiangmaimav]

Yes, since I wrote this posting I talked to a former deputy sheriff from Oregon who told me the same thing about marijuana growers there.

[crashdive123]

A while back we had somebody post about setting up traps like you describe to get game. He/she/it was roundly chastized and warned against it. You are right, it is dumb and more importantly dangerous.

[Pict]

In native areas where killing traps are employed for pigs and such they often place warning markers around them but the markers are things agreed upon locally and don't follow a standard pattern. It would pay to learn these if you travel in such areas.

I agree that setting such traps is a dangerous practice, but not all killing/spear type traps are dangerous to humans. A spring-pole spear trap can be set to strike straight down and would be very obvious to a human who encountered it (don't crawl through that). Mac

[rebel]

My uncle came across one of these in the Ocala forest. It had a 12 ga. shell attached.

http://www.defensedevices.com/shotgun-alarm-signal1.html

[Ole WV Coot]

Marijuana is our #1 cash crop and the older growers learned well in Nam. Think FVR mentioned about if you walk into a patch walk back out in your own tracks and pretend you don't know what you found.