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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]So not sure if it's technically illegal, but setting any hidden "traps" for tresspassers will subject you to civil liability of a tresspasser is injured. There's a lot of case law on it. There was one really gruesome case in MD several years ago. Some guy with a lot of wooded property got sick of people riding ATVs through his woods. So, he strung up a piece of wire between two trees. All on his property. An ATV rider was decapitated. The property owner was definitely found civilly liable. I can't remember if he faced criminal charges - I think he might have. Basically, even though it's your property, you're not allowed to deliberately hurt people, even tresspassers.[/quote]

This. Someone in your neighborhood should find a lawyer to send him an official request to remove this as potential threat to children. In the letter they can spell out potential liability which hopefully will scare the guy. Also keep having neighbors call code enforcement and use the language that he is setting traps and trying to intentionally harm someone.

Also organize to get the HOA to act fast. HOAs can send cease and desist letters to protect themselves against liability even if the action is not explicitly in the by laws but potentially harms the community. [/quote]

The PP is right here. There are many classic torts cases about this issue. Beyond even the unlawful trespassers, what happens if the police or fire department have to come? What if the mail carrier walks over the grass? And of course, the injuries from barbed wire are hardly commensurate with whatever injury the guy suffers with having people walk on his grass. The neighbor who does this is a moron and/or sociopath, and someone needs to put a stop to it.
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Im sort of looking forward to the news story about how this ahole is getting sued by the ups delivery guy because he got slashed trying to deliver this guy’s packages. [/quote]

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