Dangerous booby traps were found on a Utah trail yesterday in a Provo Canyon. There were multiple traps, one with a trip wire and 20 lb. spiked boulder swinging down and another trip wire with a bed of sharp wodden stakes beneath it. An ex-military officer who now works for the U.S. Forest Service spotted it- luckily he had been trained in hazardous device detection. Benjamin Steven Rutkowski, 19, of Orem and Kai Matthew Christensen, 21, of Provo were arrested in a Utah County Jail on Saturday due to a tip from some bragging on facebook. What were these kids thinking? Is Utah really this weird?
More here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/04/23/national/a140733D05.DTL#ixzz1syWzKf9w
19 and 21 are pretty old to be setting booby traps. What morons
Yes, beyond a doutbt the natives are that wierd.
Throw these fuckers in jail, for a long time.
Looks like someone has been watching the hunger games a bit too much.
Correction: “19 and 21 are pretty old to be setting booby traps. What mormons”
The names are published…someone should booby trap these kid’s assholes with the rock/spike contraption.
Utah is so weird.
When you meet some one who seems kind of off in SLC they are almost always actually from Utah
probably trying to catch more wives or something.
Hey, innocent until proven guilty guys. Maybe these were traps for animals. Let’s not judge too fast.
Yeah, animals, that’s the ticket. Doesn’t matter what kind.
Animals Trapper? Really? Just as sick an idea, sane people don’t use traps like that. Have I been a Trapper? Yes. Would I have used traps like that? Never.
These dudes just made up some bs cause they were in deep shit. I work on that district and the only animals they were hunting for is the two legged kind.
They were simply hunting animals. This is just misunderstanding. Let these young morman boys go.
They are really trying to say these traps were for animals. I say drop the mace looking device on their nuts
Maybe it was Rambo
this can’t be real. ridiculous
pics one and two look terrifying… just like something Rambo built, haha… but then pic 3 looks kinda funny… like something built by dorky kids. I think this is a case of boys will be boys, did anyone get hurt? if not let them go and they can consider themselves lucky to have learned a lesson that could have been way harsher. Have you all never done something reckless and stupid when you were 19 or 20?
Being in that age bracket, I do LOADS of stupid stuff. However, I’m not a moron. The fact that these ADULTS thought it would be funny to set traps like that is seriously messed up. They should both be mentally evaluated before returning to society because either A, they have some sort of mental behavior disability or B, they have a disgusting sense of humor and should be put in some sort of program to teach them better.
hmm, all good points, thanks. They definitely should be mentally evaluated before returning to society… wonder how many other deranged young adults are out there ready to kill someone for no good reason… oh yeah, lots and lots of them… this world is one crazy F’d up place fo sho! Whats a lover to do?
Really? Here’s the thing: just because you’re bored and young doesn’t mean you can build something like that and leave it. The real issue here is that they think no one else uses that area OR they built them out of malice, hoping someone would use the area and get hurt. Trapping animals? RIIIIGHT. The thing is, every time I did something stupid, I didn’t brag about hurting someone or building something awful ON MY FACEBOOK PAGE.
Stupid. Just stupid — but few people outgrow stupid.
being wreckless and stupid is fine, as long as it is you who will pay the price for it and not some unlucky by stander. you idiot
I’d be pretty fuking miserable if I lived in Provo too.
Agreed, Salt Lake’s so much better
I will confirm that the people in Utah are very very strange. The lack of drugs and alcohol use leads the youth to doing much more destructive things….like this.
i think you meant the people from utah. also, do you really think these “youths” would have been better off spending their day doing drugs and alcohol?
they probably wouldnt have wasted time on somethin like this.. take a b-load or kill someone u choose.
Hiding the polygamy operations
Look at how the tips of the “spears” are darkened. They need to test to make sure these little psycho-brats didn’t put some sort of poisonous crap on them, or dip them into something full of bacteria- altho it might just be from trying to “harden” them in a fire. Either way, it shows deliberate intent to maximize harm.
Or they fell to the ground and got dirt on them when removed. But poison spears sounds way more sinister.
Just a classic Mormon Gentile trap.. that’s all
Eff’en Mormons!
What was the purpose of the Traps? Protecting an area from people? Grow op. Area where they live? Or are they enviro nuts trying to hurt anyone using a trail? What activity was the intended target of the traps?
You all realize these dudes aren’t mormons? This is right on a trail that you use to tour up the back of mt cascade in the winter, or bike all summer long. These bastards can get it.
What do you expect in a state that makes mid-western bible thumpers look like rock and rollers. You get kids in an state where everything is banned they aren’t going to grow up to be normal.