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This reminds me of the time the police got called to an office building because someone saw a man with a rifle in one of the windows. Turns out it was a gaming studio, and the man was a human-size cardboard cutout advertising Battlefield or some similar first person shooter.
And there’s people out there that think the average person can tell AI from reality?
At the hospital where I had my sleep studies done the only available parking was next to a probably five story building. On the second floor down from the top someone had put a mannequin in an EMS vest against their office window and left the lights on.
Whoever that person was should feel accomplished, as it successfully startled me every time I had to walk across that parking lot alone at 10pm.
Was it Terry Pratchett or Douglas Addams that had a witch that was going to be burned at the stake? She had a little future-sight abd went to her death willingly and with dignity. And with 50pounds of roofing nails in a barrel of gunpowder under her dress.
Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
You mean just Terry Pratchett, right? 😢
Neil Gaiman
Yeah that doesn’t look like anything at all to me.
GNU Sir Terry, Neil can get one final clack
Thats was it. Thank you.
Pratchett. Agnes nutter in good omens
Become the claymore you wish to see in the world.
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. That’s Good Omens
Definitely TP. I remember reading this, and the setting was not on an oddly numerous inhabitable planets.
Good Omens is the name of the book.
Agnes Nutter had concealed forty pounds of roofing nails and eighty pounds of gunpowder in her petticoat.
Which makes me wonder how much of a hulking beast she must have been to carry that.
If someone shoots Boris, the owner will have a lot more to worry about than home invaders
How big is that foyer? Is the wall behind Boris a steel wall per chance ?
Better include a steel roof, because the structural integrity of the ceiling ain’t looking great once the dust clears.
If I had a Boris, I’d be dead before they got a chance to shoot Boris. At which point Boris will have done his job.
Also the whole needing a mega sonic bullet and he’ll likely get handgun fire.
Yeah, most rifle calibers are needed to set off tannerite. Should’ve mentioned that in my original comment, but oh well lol.
Boris has a bananamag, which is literally communism, hence he’s getting AR’d without question long before someone pulls a Glock on him.
You’re good homie. I’m just a pedant
ic.would think you would have said I’m just a pedant or I’m just being pedantic then… 😄
That’s what I meant! Thank you!
Simple, small audio sensor rigged to detonator, when systems active it can be set off by gunshots
Boris will not drop the gun, but he will drop the building structure.
I see there is Gender Reveal Tannerite, which would dye the perps a chosen color.
Would probably die them too
Can you get that in rainbow color
Get some of that super-fine glitter. The ones who survive will be sparkling for weeks.
They probably are just using a dry dye powder or powder paint. Which comes in many colours.
Only pink and blue. But many options in DIY.
Mix them and get a nice purple!
I hope Boris has a very substantial steel plate behind his back.
I also hope he has some servos to move his arms with motion detectors.
Gotta protect whoever’s behind him with high speed steel plate to the face
“Boris, Boris Claymore”
This is no “go big or go home” he simply goes boom. He give me Mole from Atlantis vibes.
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Unfortunately I think this is still illegal 😔
They can’t put you in jail if you’re fucking dead cuz you blew up your house.
Any sort of trap is illegal, for good reason.
Although tannerite is stable unless you shoot it with a round going over 2000ft/s
What if you hung a sign in your house stating “This is my tannerite storage mannequin, do not shoot him”?
I’m pretty sure it would still be illegal. The logic behind traps being illegal is that they harm indiscriminately. And in the case of explosives they have the potential to harm more than just the person who triggered the trap.
Would this count as a trap? You could probably argue needing someone to fire a supersonic round into it makes it not a trap.
So is executing unarmed people in the street but that seems to be where the calvinball game is at.
Yeah, but you don’t wanna do the illegal thing AT YOUR HOUSE.
Set it up in a bush near the police station or something.
This is for when they come to your house. At that point your best case scenario is that you’re dragged perfectly healthy to a concentration camp.
Right. But the chance that your booby trap is discovered by the law without it blowing up is way higher than it serving it’s purpose as an uno reverse against ICE.
So rather than going to prison for no reason, I say take the fight to them!
Probably in most jurisdictions but maybe not if you shoot it yourself. Then it goes from being a trap to a remote controlled weapon.
Extremely, there are explicit laws against booby trapping your own property and you can face full prosecution even if it harms only burglars.
If Boris is being shot and explodes, the likelihood of the home owner already being killed by ICE or other agents is pretty high.
Ah, so your idea is a dead-man’s-switch, clever.
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.
I don’t think borris needs to explode for him to be discovered and you to be charged lol
If I’m dead, who are they charging? And who’s charging me when Boris kills the rest of them who killed me?
If he doesn’t explode, why have you and everyone else died?
ICE has a tendency to randomly kill people.
I feel like you got my point and you’re just kidding around, but just in case:
It’s not subtle, it’s probably going to be discovered and you arrested before it has an opportunity to serve it’s purpose
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
I’m not debating that a person would lose. Just pondering where the line between losing and winning might fall. Any thoughts on that?
I’m worried Boris won’t go off. He’s most likely to be shot with a handgun which won’t set off the tannerite.
You can also put the explosif in a steel trapezoid with the wide part open towards the front. Basically a claymore, but you’d have to manually set it off.
Ooh Boris spits metal, that’s a good idea
There’s a mix that’s designed to work with rim fire and other lower-velocity stuff. It’s not as powe4ful, but is more-easily triggered.
A dumb friend put some in a chewing tobacco tin and launch it from a skeet launcher to shoot with a shotgun using bird shot. I personally would not be that close to anything I was blowing up, even with a plastic shell.
A plastic shell could be even worse, too. Using plastic and glass for shrapnel (I think ceramic as well?) is considered a war crime because they don’t show up on x-rays, which makes it very hard to find - practically impossible in the case of small glass shards.
Same energy as “claymore in the snow room aimed at the outside door”. It can only do one thing and it will statistically do it to the person spending the most time around it, not any imagined opposition.
If I am not mistaken, you have to shoot tannerite to cause it to go off. So unless the owner in this case is shooting guns in their house it seems pretty likely this wont go off or harm them, but will harm someone who chooses to shoot an armed civilian for not putting their gun down.
That’s the joke.jpg
ICE is shooting unarmed civilians, so seeing Boris here would make their nuts shrivel like a booger on an Arizona Tarmac in the middle of summer, and the only way for them to regain their illusion of masculinity will be to shoot him, too.
Pistols, that ICE has been using to murder innocent civilians, won’t set off tannerite. You need high velocity rifle rounds, typically .223 Rem and up.
If they’re breaching a house they’re going to be bringing long guns.
Such a poor choice in cramped closed quarters.
While tannerite does need that extreme concussion to go off, it is still more likely to hurt the person who set it up as this seems like a stand off tactic.
Unless you have to enter the house to see Boris. They are gonna shoot from a distance.
Tannerite is designed to be shot from a distance. It’s main purpose is to give immediate feedback when you hit a long distance target.
That’s what the screws are for.
Long distance has different meanings depending on weapon type.
unless the owner in this case is shooting guns in their house
Do you not?
Keep one in the car so you can use the HOV lane.
175 lbs of Tannerite. Boris, the house and some part of the neighborhood will attempt a space voyage, if Boris gets shot.
I would be concerned about Boris wrecking a perfectly good foyer. Maybe put at the end of your street, leaning on a tree, just make sure the neighbors know what he is, but not who put him there.
Be Boris, Friend.
