Grower Killed by His Own Booby Trap

[Papa]

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Daniel Ricketts was thrown from his Honda Foreman when he ran into his own trap. Police say there were other traps set: barbed wire and a leg trap used to catch coyotes.


An upstate New York marijuana grower accidentally killed himself with the booby trap he'd set up to protect his plants, police said. Daniel Ricketts was almost decapitated Saturday after he drunkenly drove his quad bike into barely visible thin piano wire strung up around his plantation in Berne, Albany County.

The 50-year-old was thrown from his Honda Foreman, his head almost entirely severed from his body.

Hikers spotted his lifeless corpse and called cops. Police also found barbed wire and a leg trap used to catch coyotes surrounding the four large plants.

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Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple says it’s not uncommon for people to secretly grow drugs in the rural hills in the county.

Ricketts was pronounced dead at the scene by Albany County Coroner Paul Marra.
Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple said the rural hills in the county are often used to secretly grow drugs.

"They go up there and they'll grow marijuana on a lot of the state lands. Fortunately hikers, people out and about, neighbors will call us and they'll tell us," he told CBS 6. Officers removed the plants from the property and are now continuing their investigation into the tragedy.


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/marijuana-grower-killed-booby-trap-article-1.1444173#ixzz2drSVjXtu

 

[Bo0m]

Wow what a dumb ass. Bobbie trap grows are such a bad idea. What if that was some one else, he would be so fucked. Over 4 plants. :(

 

[darkmatter]

Yea his head won't in the right place

 

[soserthc1]

seriously first drinking driving a four wheeler um not good idea .... booby trap 4 plants another bad idea .... dying ofver stupidity bad idea...... feel sorry for the people left to deal with this tragedy not the one who died .......stupidy at its finest ......if he was smoking the weed he should be freely aloud to grow in his own home and not drinking this would not be a sad story another gov't war against marijuana tragedy ........

 

[stutter]

You dont just accidentally ride into your own boobie trap. More like some "hikers"(why the fuck were they "hiking" on his property) were growing plants on someone elses property and the poor old property owner unknowingly rode his quad into a trap they set and now because the plants were on his property police assume they were his plants.

Someone probably killed this poor guy and the cops arent going to do shit about it

 

[growinman]

^^^------very good points! We so easily just go with what the media/cops tell us, don't we..?
peace, gman

 

[sky high]

There's absolutely no way BillyBob got drunk and did something stupid that ended up causing his own death...'cus we all know that drinking and stupidity are completely separate events that have >never< been linked to each other. :rolleyes:

 

[Drifting13]

If it was his own traps, looks like we have a candidate for this years Darwin Award.
If it was murder, hope they get the SOB that did it.

 

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