Mantraps for homes

[sunzt]

Has anyone ever considered buying or building a mantrap (set of interlocking doors) for a home? Has anyone have any experience with this? I'm considering doing this to the hallway that goes into the main rooms of a house.

 

[spaceman]

sounds like hotel california

 

[Farmer]

You scared of home invasion?

 

[MotF Bane]

Unnecessary. Use a vault door for the outer access.

 

[rivan]

Unnecessary. Use a vault door for the outer access.

Knock, knock.

 

[highland145]

What's wrong? Another boyfriend escaped?



j/k

 

[Texashiker]

Has anyone ever considered buying or building a mantrap (set of interlocking doors) for a home?

Why didnt jeffrey dahmer think of that?

 

[moshquerade]

Has anyone ever considered buying or building a mantrap (set of interlocking doors) for a home? Has anyone have any experience with this? I'm considering doing this to the hallway that goes into the main rooms of a house.

Why are you considering this?

 

[waggy]

hmm wouldn't that open you up to a few lawsuits (if you catch someone)?

 

[Texashiker]

hmm wouldn't that open you up to a few lawsuits (if you catch someone)?

Think what would happen if they were allowed to escape.

Just look at what happened to jeffrey dahmer, one kid escaped and got to a police car. Jeffrey came up with a story that the kid was his lover. The police believed jeffrey, and nothing happened. Jeff almost got caught that time.

 

[Drako]

Just do the shotgun with a string tied to the trigger thing, and save yourself a lot of money

 

[highland145]

hmm wouldn't that open you up to a few lawsuits (if you catch someone)?

Only if he hooks it up to 220V.

 

[olds]

OP, go with a basement. Much easier to control ingress/egress.
Also it's easier to soundproof it and bolt chains to the walls/floors.

 

[highland145]

OP, go with a basement. Much easier to control ingress/egress.
Also it's easier to soundproof it and bolt chains to the walls/floors.

/thread

 

[ShawnD1]

Has anyone ever considered buying or building a mantrap (set of interlocking doors) for a home? Has anyone have any experience with this? I'm considering doing this to the hallway that goes into the main rooms of a house.

1 - man traps are illegal
2 - why the hell would you put a man trap in a place where you regularly walk??


In any event, your best and safest bet for a man trap is to use something very similar to a fluorescent light ballast. A fluorescent light is powered from a high voltage transformer in series with a large inductor. The high voltage is used to strike an arc across a fluorescent tube, then the inductor keeps the current low and acts as a voltage divider once an arc is created. That's perfect for killing a person. A large voltage like 2000V is easily enough to cross a person's body and their clothes, and a large inductor will keep current low so it won't start your house on fire.
You don't need a lot of current to kill someone. Your mom's hair dryer might use 10A at 120V. To stop a human heart, you need much less than 1A or even 0.1A

 

[waggy]

Think what would happen if they were allowed to escape.

Just look at what happened to jeffrey dahmer, one kid escaped and got to a police car. Jeffrey came up with a story that the kid was his lover. The police believed jeffrey, and nothing happened. Jeff almost got caught that time.

hmm very true. so the trick is to not allow them to escape.

OP, go with a basement. Much easier to control ingress/egress.
Also it's easier to soundproof it and bolt chains to the walls/floors.

the master has spoken!

 

[SP33Demon]

OP, go with a basement. Much easier to control ingress/egress.
Also it's easier to soundproof it and bolt chains to the walls/floors.

I really hope that you're feeding Ruby down there.

 

[highland145]

I really hope that you're feeding Ruby down there.

lol




And, yeah.

 

[Schadenfroh]

I thought it was illegal to set traps for people on your property, despite castle laws?

For example, you can stab them to death, but you cannot let them step into a bear trap.

 

[ShawnD1]

Think what would happen if they were allowed to escape.

Just look at what happened to jeffrey dahmer, one kid escaped and got to a police car. Jeffrey came up with a story that the kid was his lover. The police believed jeffrey, and nothing happened. Jeff almost got caught that time.

Wait, so to save himself from a murder charge he convinced the police he was a child molester AND THEY LET HIM GO? wtf?

For example, you can stab them to death, but you cannot let them step into a bear trap.

You might be able to convince a judge that your machine made a citizens arrest as long as your trap doesn't cause any physical harm. Then again I'm not a lawyer. And I don't know how to make a trap that doesn't kill people.

 

[highland145]

Wait so to save himself from a murder charge he convinced the police he was a child molester AND THEY LET HIM GO? wtf?

The victim was of age, iirc.

Edit:

In the early morning hours of May 27, 1991, 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone (by coincidence, the younger brother of the boy whom Dahmer had molested) was discovered on the street, wandering naked, heavily under the influence of drugs and bleeding from his rectum. Two young women from the neighborhood found the dazed boy and called 911. Dahmer chased his victim down and tried to take him away, but the women stopped him.[30] Dahmer told police that Sinthasomphone was his 19-year-old boyfriend, and that they had an argument while drinking. Against the protests of the two women who had called 911, police turned him over to Dahmer.

 

[moshquerade]

Why are you considering this?

answer???

 

[MotF Bane]

OP, go with a basement. Much easier to control ingress/egress.
Also it's easier to soundproof it and bolt chains to the walls/floors.

This man knows.

 

[Saint Nick]

Create small entrys where people can get in, but they can't get out, effectively trapping anyone trying to invade your home.

 

[JTsyo]

Has anyone ever considered buying or building a mantrap (set of interlocking doors) for a home? Has anyone have any experience with this? I'm considering doing this to the hallway that goes into the main rooms of a house.

Those doors are going to take up a lot of room when open. You might want to look into some kind of folding design.