Super illegal. Whoever gets injured can sue the bejesus outta you, and they're pretty much guaranteed to win regardless of what they were doing, and if they die, you'll likely get charged with at least manslaughter.
ETA: the chief aim is to protect first responders, public service workers, snoopy children, etc. Any of them are far more likely to get caught by some random trap than a dedicated thief.
I mean ,if you put up a sign telling people not to touch your electrified fence, you generally won't get in trouble if someone ignores the sign and gets shocked.
An electric fence isn't a booby trap, it's a tool to dissuade large animals from leaning on relatively weak fences, and it's not an injurious voltage or amperage.
So it's an entirely different subject, and their use and the sheer amount and variance of local laws surrounding electric fence use are all focused on protecting the public at large, so that's not an out for your weird desire to see strangers get injured, ostensibly deserving or not, either.
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u/BecomingJudasnMyMind 7d ago
Isn't booby trapping against the law?