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Old 20-06-2011, 09:45 PM   #1
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Default Booby trap's found on beach

Get a load of this. Have a look at the picture on the site.
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SHOCKING booby traps have been laid at a popular northern New South Wales beach.

Tweed Heads man Dave Gittins and his 11-year-old daughter Tayla stumbled across some of the traps at Fingal Head at the weekend.

One consisted of a cluster of razor-sharp steel spikes welded to a plate and buried in sand.

Another crude trap, made of nails driven into timber, punctured a tyre on the family's four-wheel-drive when they went for a surf on Saturday.

A family friend who got out of the car to investigate needed hospital treatment after standing on a nail trap.

"It's terrible, shocking," Mr Gittins said. "I don't know what would possess someone to do something like this because so many people, including kids, use this beach.

"These things are bloody dangerous and deliberately designed to cause serious injury."

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Mr Gittins said the booby traps had been laid in sand dunes just off a road leading to the beach, which is popular with surfers and fishermen. They were buried under sand and piles of leaves.

"Whoever has made them has gone to a lot of trouble," he said. "If you look at the design, if someone stood on one, the spikes would go straight through their foot and they'd be badly impaled.

"They haven't been there that long, either, because they're not rusty."

Fingal is a peninsula between the Tweed River and Pacific Ocean. It houses both an Aboriginal community and beachfront millionaires.

Local Aborigines have staged protests against development but Mr Gittins said anyone could have laid the booby traps.

He said beach tracks used by 4WDs had recently been excavated in an effort to make them impassable.

Jet skier Guy Neumann, who helped the Gittins family after their tyre was punctured, said he feared the tracks could be "laced" with booby traps.
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Old 20-06-2011, 09:48 PM   #2
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dumbass mother****ers who do this will never learn...



just wish we could do it to them
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Old 20-06-2011, 10:16 PM   #3
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dumbass mother****ers who do this will never learn...

just wish we could do it to them
It doesn't help that the courts let people off with stuff like this, but the state poos its pants when somebody goes 5km/h over the speed limit.
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Old 21-06-2011, 12:13 AM   #4
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Thats messed up...why do stuff like that?
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Old 21-06-2011, 01:12 AM   #5
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what a twisted mongrel this person must be!
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Old 21-06-2011, 01:18 AM   #6
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wow, just wow!!
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Did they catch any "Boobies"?
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Old 22-06-2011, 12:55 PM   #8
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There's always one!
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Holy carp. That's nuts. What kind of deranged moron would do that?
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Old 22-06-2011, 01:57 PM   #10
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Holy carp. That's nuts. What kind of deranged moron would do that?
A local who despises I guess 4WD's etc on beaches, that might disturb their amenity?

Went to some trouble for that. Fetch the rope.
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Old 22-06-2011, 01:59 PM   #11
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Yet another indication that the brain capacity and reasoning abilities of some are severely diminished...what is with these people? :-( Gotta make you wonder what actually goes on in some peoples minds.
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Old 22-06-2011, 04:48 PM   #12
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Holy carp. That's nuts. What kind of deranged moron would do that?
The same people that string wire across bush tracks to stop motorcyclists, usually at about neck height does the job....
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It doesn't help that the courts let people off with stuff like this, but the state poos its pants when somebody goes 5km/h over the speed limit.
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I thought this thread was something about topless girls on the beach setting traps for unsuspecting men with their boobies. Damn, wrong booby.
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Old 25-06-2011, 02:29 AM   #15
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when i was very young i got a massive slice on my toe as i was running on the beach from a broken bottle in the sand. was it there on purpose i will never know.

mongrels that do this kind of stuff have no place in our society.

who are they to take matters into their own hands to try and get rid of them?
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Old 25-06-2011, 01:31 PM   #16
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These Booby traps AKA Man traps are a prisionable offence if the person laying them is found, well used in Vietnam on tracks, my old man has seen the results of one of these made from bamboo, not nice.
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Anything new on these traps? Whoever does things like this is just sick in the head..... I hope they're found and tried and innocent people aren't hurt.
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Old 01-07-2011, 09:24 AM   #18
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I would guess one of the residents near by ???
Who has welding abilities..
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obviously to stop 4wders...
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These Booby traps AKA Man traps are a prisionable offence if the person laying them is found, well used in Vietnam on tracks, my old man has seen the results of one of these made from bamboo, not nice.
its a shocker to know, but similar to what was in the 'Rambo' movies.

Bambo carved to being so pointy it can pierce Rhino skin. Laid against other bamboo and when you trip the wire they shoot up. instant death.

Harsh to believe i think they still use these in the Cambodian region to catch wild animals. The occasional tourist gets caught in them.
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