#booby traps

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Classic Vietnam War Booby traps

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Hamas booby traps are killing and injuring Gazans - and they are blaming Israel

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

Ultra Palestine reports on explosions in Gaza since the ceasefire. It says they are all from Israeli muitions, but the details sound more like Hamas booby-traps.

Ezz El-Din Hijazi (23 years old), one of the victims of the occupation’s remnants, sustained injuries to his face and parts of his body, and a broken foot, as a result of the explosion of what he describes as a “foreign object” in the city of Rafah. Hijazi was helping a relative retrieve some belongings from his destroyed home in the West Rafah area when he saw a child playing with a strange object that he says looked like “a water regulator with a small light bulb in it.” He added that he feared for the child, so he pulled it away and threw it away. A short while later, an explosion occurred, and the 12-year-old child was killed, while he was seriously injured.

What bomb remnant would look like a water regulator with a light bulb?

When an explosion happens inside a house or inside the rubble of a house, chances are very good that it came from Hamas, which proudly hid booby-traps in walls and closets. It even took videos of hiding these bombs.

Most of the examples in the article appear to have been inside houses. While it could be that some are from Israel, these are areas that were booby-trapped.The article says that Rafah and northern Gaza are the most dangerous places - and the IDF mentioned months ago that practically every building in the north of Gaza was booby-trapped, while the New York Times reported last June that there were hundreds in Rafah as well. 

I predicted a month ago that Hamas and Hamas-tilted media will blame Israel for these deaths. I'm not wrong.

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Aw, quit grandstandin’, mister! We know you were in the army!

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Ok so in a human-are-space-orcs setting, humans are also going to be weirdly (or terrifyingly, depending on your point of view) good at booby traps: improvisational engineering, breaking rules, defending their homes/pack bonded crewmates/pack bonded ships, general mayhem and chaos, and sheer bloody-mindedness. Imagine the how aliens would react to Home Alone, Tom and Jerry, Roadrunner and Coyote, etc. “This is entertainment for their young!? This is training for guerrilla warfare!” “When attempting to capture a human ship or settlement, be extremely warry of anything that appears abandoned, or defended only by ‘unarmed’ ‘non-combatants’. There is no such thing as an unarmed human. There are only humans who have done a better job of concealing their improvised weapons. See files “Jackie Chan” and “Kevin McCallister”

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Booby traps? Sure, I would easily fall into a trap if I saw boobs!

Comic made by @chloesimaginationthings

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I'm ahead of the curve by eight years! Meet Papyrus, my baby, named after the fabulous skeleton himself:

He is a handsome boy with many talents, just like his namesake!

He's a thoughtful cat, with the soul of a poet, as well as a food connoisseur:

He has experience as a professional bird watcher and bed tester, both done pro-bono out of the goodness of his heart!

He is a master hider, although he does sometimes fall for booby traps...

But mostly he's my wonderful babushcat who has been with me through my lowest points, all the way to my highs, and who embodies the boundless love and positivity of his namesake.

Love you Paps.

And thank you to Mr. Toby Fox for sharing his beautiful creativity with the world. Can't wait for the rest of Deltarune, it sounds like it's going great!

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Has anyone ever thought that maybe there are booby traps or hidden trapdoors in the secret tunnels of the Hawthorne House and that any unsuspecting Hawthorne brother may have gotten caught in them at some point? I believe that this would especially apply to our one and only Jameson Winchester Hawthorne who frequents them the most. Imagine Jamie's drunk, stumbles into one of the passageways because he's had a rough day (inferencing from Skye's conversation with Avery in the first book with how he used to get lost in those halls for long periods of time likely means they're his comfort spots) and he's in one that leads to the kitchen but then makes a wrong turn. There's a bit of buzzing in his head from the alcohol but a gut feeling is telling him he's going the wrong way, yet, he continues on anyway until he steps on a loose lock, triggering a trapdoor to open underneath him. He, of course, falls down into a room that he's never been in and straight up passes out only to end up staying there until the next evening around the time of the mandatory dinner that everyone has to show up to. Concluding that he's missing, his brothers set out on the hunt to find him.

Nash and Grayson are actively going through all his usual haunts, trying to locate him while Xander is trailing them with a camera in his hands, documenting the whole thing and throwing in over-the-top commentary as the unofficial narrator of the little documentary. When they finally get to the corridor that leads from Jamie's room to the kitchen, Nash spots the split in the hall and since they already checked the kitchen, he decides they should skip the typical route and check out that other way. Grayson tries to fight him on this but relents to Nash's brotherly instincts as the oldest of them and they go, Xander merrily following behind them.

To their surprise, they see a hole in the floor and rush to it only to find their very much asleep brother in the sunken space. Xan takes out his phone and starts to snap photos and neither of his older brothers stop him. Thankful that they found him, Nash jumps down and so does Grayson who searches for a light as Xander continues to film from above. Gray manages to find a switch and after getting over the initial brightness, also sees a way up again with a roll-down ladder so he unfolds it and climbs back up beside Xander to help Nash bring Jameson up. Meanwhile, Nash is trying to get a handle on his long and lanky brother who is just all sprawled out limbs so after a few minutes of wrestling him into a proper position, he pushes Jamie against the ladder for Grayson to start hauling him up. As he pulls him up by gripping under his shoulders, Nash is pushing Jameson’s legs up to get him out of there so he can come back up himself. 

After all this nonsense, they manage to get into formation and carry him back down the passage to his bedroom and Xander is “helping” them by having a hand on one of Jameson's knees but more so focusing on recording the segment which leaves Gray a little frustrated as he has a handle on the feet. It takes a bit of maneuvering around to get to Jameson's room with Jameson himself but they are able to do it and set him on his bed. Nash checks out Jameson's head to make sure there aren't any signs of a concussion while Grayson searches around for an Advil and a spare water bottle. When all is fine and dandy, Xander has his fun by tucking Jameson in and pulling out an old teddy bear before he leaves. He proceeds to stay up the entire night to put together and edit his video.

The next morning, when Jamie finally regains consciousness post-hangover, he wakes to a text from Xan featuring an iMovie file. He opens it up to find it’s a mini documentary of his brothers making rounds around the House, going slightly insane as they tried to find him with Xander’s unnecessary narration in his sober opinion.  Problem is, he realizes that the video isn’t in the one-on-one iMessage chat between him and Xander; his brother sent it to group chat with all four of them in it. He doesn't read the rest but when he does encounter any of his brothers the remainder of that day, they all give him a small smirk or amused shake of the head.