A booby trap is a device or setup that is intended to kill, harm or surprise a human or another animal. It is triggered by the presence or actions of the...
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Look up booby trap in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A booby trap is an antipersonnel device disguised as a harmless object. Booby Trap may also refer...
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"Booby Trap" is the sixth episode of the third season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the 54th episode...
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Ugandan booby trap is the name given to a group of crimes first reported in late 2008 in Uganda. The victims were discovered by police to have been found...
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Lisa's Booby Trap (born April 11, 2007) is an American thoroughbred racehorse owned by Tim Snyder, a trainer at Finger Lakes Race Track in Farmington,...
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word booby to mean dunce appeared in 1599. Booby prize literally means "idiot's prize". The OED dates this usage to 1893. Booby trap and "booby hatch"...
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in the novel Joseph Andrews Booby's Bay, Cornwall, UK Booby trap, a device intended to harm a person who triggers it Booby Island (disambiguation) Boob...
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distributed immediately before the attack. In 2015, Mossad began planting booby-trapped walkie-talkies in Lebanon, which secretly allowed Israel to monitor...
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Booby Trap is a 1957 black and white British comedy drama 'B' film, directed by Henry Cass and starring Tony Quinn, Harry Fowler and Sidney Tafler. It...
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training will be borne by the employee Ambush Booby trap Sand trap (disambiguation) The Trap (disambiguation) Trapped (disambiguation) Trapper (disambiguation)...
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Punji stick (redirect from Punji trap)
The punji stick or punji stake is a type of booby trapped stake. It is a simple spike, made out of wood or bamboo, which is sharpened, heated, and usually...
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as it was so hazardous. The tunnels were often rigged with explosive booby traps or punji stick pits. The two most common responses in dealing with a...
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Booby-Traps and Other Devices, or Protocol II, is a United Nations treaty that restricts the use of land mines, remotely delivered mines, and booby traps...
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Donaldson (aged 23) and Robert Millar (aged 26), were killed by an IRA booby-trap bomb attached to an abandoned car near Crossmaglen, South Armagh. The...
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important was the psychological effect. Just the knowledge that a mine or booby trap could be placed anywhere slowed combat operations and forced allied troops...
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– 8 June 1972) was a member of the Garda Síochána who was killed by a booby-trap bomb left by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provisional IRA) in...
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A spring-gun, booby trap gun etc. is a gun, often a shotgun, rigged to fire when a string or other triggering device is tripped by contact of sufficient...
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of booby-trap devices in the form of apparently harmless portable objects". Booby traps are mostly outlawed under the Protocol on Mines, Booby-Traps and...
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Road, Belfast. 10 October: UDR soldier James Hewitt was killed in an IRA booby-trap bomb left under his car, parked at cattle mart, Tandragee Road, Portadown...
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bomb on a railway line in Dunmurry, County Antrim. 1 November: A RIRA booby trap bomb hidden in a traffic cone exploded in Castlewellan, County Down, seriously...
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Vagos Motorcycle Club (section Hemet traps)
2010, amid allegations that Vagos members had fabricated home-made booby traps to maim and kill police detectives in Hemet, California, police arrested...
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North Vietnamese and Viet Cong tactics in the Vietnam War Punji stick – Booby-trapped stake or spike Lewis, Jon E., ed. (1997). "Tactics and Techniques, Personal...
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by the British Army during the Northern Ireland conflict to refer to booby traps made by the IRA, and entered common use in the U.S. during the Iraq War...
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Kerr was a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officer killed by a booby-trap car bomb planted outside his home on 2 April 2011 at Highfield Close,...
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Molniya (Russian: молния, lit. 'lightning') was an explosive device used to booby trap certain buried or otherwise concealed containers used by the KGB to cache...
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May 2009, it was announced that Porter would present a documentary, The Booby Trap, exploring breast cancer, for Sky1. The show aired on 6–7 July 2009, under...
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the "Stielhandgranate" stick grenades. If it was to be used as a fixed booby-trap, then an instantaneous or one-second fuse would be fitted. Sometimes,...
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also commonly referred to as a tiger pit in the East) was a type of booby trap or defensive obstacle. Each trou de loup consisted of a conical pit about...
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"Booby Trap" is a Nero Wolfe mystery novella by Rex Stout, first published in the August 1944 issue of The American Magazine. It first appeared in book...
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also used in land mine fuzes, booby-trap firing devices and anti-handling devices. Most purpose-made military booby-trap firing devices contain some form...
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