Today’s Really Bad Idea

Well, while it is a bad idea to booby trap your own home because you're tired of burglars robbing you there actually is an even worse idea. Blowing your own hand off with the booby trap.

Victor Iacobescu, 50, ran to a neighbor's house Thursday with a bloody towel wrapped around his right hand.

"Apparently, he was trying to set booby traps to get the next guy who tried to break in," fire Lt. Maggie Murphy said.

Iacobescu had been the victim of several break-ins, she said.

The neighbor, Patrick Struble, said the explosives were "like a pipe bomb. He accidentally triggered it, and it almost blew his hand off."

Police intend to file charges against the home security genius. On the bright side, the trap did catch a booby. (You can expect this one to show up for an honorable mention in the Darwin Awards.)