Phoebe Judge

He set up a booby trap with tripwires running across a few of the paths in the garden.

One day, a neighbor's peacock flew over the garden wall, and a 19-year-old climbed over it to help find the bird.

He set off the tripwires and was shot in the knee.

Then he sued the tulip gardener and won.

A 1986 case involved an electrified booby trap.

A store owner whose store had been robbed multiple times installed an electrified metal grate above his front door

When a man broke in through the ceiling, the rubber soles of his sneakers protected him, but he touched the metal grate as he tried to climb out and was killed.

The store owner was arrested and charged with manslaughter.

He said, I didn't mean for anyone to be killed.

I just wanted to shock him and warn him.

His store had been robbed six times in the past month alone, and he said that the police hadn't done much about it.

He said, the police come by and fill out a report and put down that fingerprint dust, and you'll be cleaning it up for two days after that, but they'll never even call you.

A grand jury voted to release him.

In 1974, a man named A.C.

Wade owned a liquor store in Cordial, Georgia.

He also owned a cigarette vending machine just outside of the store.

But if you were to shake the machine so much, whatever the charge would be set off.

Attorney David Rainwater.

A.C.

Wade, the liquor store owner, said his machine had been broken into five times and that he'd put in the dynamite to try to scare off potential thieves.