I might have a bit of sympathy for the guy if it turns out he really was the victim of multiple home robberies/invasions, or even lived in a bad neighborhood. My suspicion is that he was worried about something that wasn’t going to happen and died because of it.
I have no idea of his prior history. Many of the people who’ve made it into textbooks for their booby traps and ‘spring guns’ working well, installed them because they’d gotten robbed over and over. The police are…well, apologetic is about the best you can hope for. Clearance on domestic burglaries is something ridiculously small, like under 10 percent.
Trust me, there are no bad neighborhoods in Van Buren, ME. I grew up in The County. There are barely neighborhoods in Van Buren, ME.
The police department said
His house had multiple such devices. I am guessing there may have been some mental illness in play here.
Looks like it’s basically Canada. Hard to get closer to it than they are anyway. The kind of place where everyone knows everyone, and the people who moved there in 1983 are still called , ‘that new family who moved into the Johnson’s place.’
His situation reminds me of that one, heavily booby-trapped, house in Fallout: New Vegas. Only without the scorpions. I agree, he sounds like he was mentally ill. Well, he’s cured now.
I feel for the poor people in Public Safety who had to clean out the house.
I believe there is no “just about”. Every structure must accessible to emergency services. Those that have things like barrels of HazMat or dangerous equipment are normally required to inform the city/county of what needs to be avoided. There are probably big fines for anyone who harbors any kind of major unreported hazard on their property – if they get caught hiding it that is.
And to visibly post it.
When twenty-ONE armed home invaders, uhh…, invade your home, you’ll thank them for their foresight!
In the meantime, the National Tracing Center, the place that traces weapons used in a crime, is not allowed to have a computerized database of all the paperwork it has, lest it be used to GRAB ALL THE GUNS!!! So, it takes manual searching to trace the origin of a gun, slowing down crime investigations.
Really annoys me, that one.
And think of those poor souls who will be helpless against the onslaught of 30-50 feral hogs! 
Plus after you save your family from that hog onslaught, you have to fight the dreaded Boss Hogg!
30-50 might be an exaggeration, but not by much.
And they will absolutely and completely fuck you up.
Feral hogs in Texas attacked and killed a woman outside a home
Certainly it’s rare, but I can tell you from personal experience on my own property, feral hogs are a rapidly growing menace. 20 years ago there were no signs of hogs at all on my property at all and very few on my neighbors. Last time I went out I found indications of at least 2 packs and I’ve only got 60 acres.
Mmmmmm…porketta.
Kids having a nerf gun fight, when Uncle Drunky says “Here’s what a real one looks like” and shoots one of the kids in the leg.
But he is an alcoholic, so that makes it ok.
Second Amendment icon George Zimmerman is suing the family of Trayvon Martin for defamation, abuse of civil process, and conspiracy. He is seeking $100 million in damages.
I guess he already blew the $250K he made by auctioning off the gun he used to kill Trayvon.
The clear solution is to ban nerf guns so tragedies like this don’t happen again.
Memphis woman pulls a gun at a McDonald’s because she got ketchup instead of jelly.
McDonald's Customer Pulls Gun When Given Ketchup Instead Of Jelly: Police | HuffPost Weird News?
To be fair, I feel that strongly against ketchup myself. But I would not have pulled anything worse than a knife.
That’s old school. The new weapon of choice is a narwhal horn.
Fire extinguishers at 10 paces.
Clutch Catch: A couple of morons shopping for a gun leave an infant on top of the shop counter. While the morons’ attention is focused on their fetish, the shop manager moves in just in time to prevent the infant from falling head-first onto the concrete floor.