The Deer Trap

My mom has a deer problem. Actually she has a neighbor problem, but the deer are the only thing you can legally take action on. Her neighbor feeds the deer. They're all over the place. Her entire yard is covered in deer poop. All her plants have been trampled or eaten.

Now there's my dad - a retired crafty type with nothing better to do then F with stuff, so he rigged up a deer trap.

Ingredients for said deer trap:

• Rat trap screwed to log in yard
• String tied to rat trap trigger then strung across yard to a tree with pressure relief located roughly 18" from trap - without pressure relief device (a brick), the string was heavy enough to set off trap by itself
  
• Trap contact area (i.e. death zone) wrapped in metal
• Metal death zone area attached to a wire attached to positive post on tractor battery
• Rat Trap spring attached to a wire attached to negative post on tractor battery
• One attached wire has a "fuse area" - a much lighter wire coiled like a filament in a light bulb
• Black Cat firecrackers intertwined in "fuse area"

When the trap is set, the metal contact area is contacted by the spring and the battery is shorted through the "fuse area" causing the thinner wire to burn and catch the fire cracker fuses.

BAM! POW! CRACK!

The deer scatter.

- b