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So your family home gets broken into. You call your local sheriff for help. He advises to put up some 'No Trespassing' signs. Your home gets broken into again. Your dresser gets stolen.

This time, you call a different local sheriff. He advises to barricade the windows. You're home gets broken into again, but now your windows have also been smashed. What do you do next?

Watch as an elderly couple took the law into their own hands in 1967, shaped the law into a shotgun, and attached it to a bedroom door.
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Credit:
Show Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)

Script: Natasha Martell

Narrator: Jared Sager

"Boobytrap in Empty House Wounds Man." Cedar Rapids Gazette, July 17, 1967.

Google Scholar. Text of Katko v. Briney, 183 NW 2d 657 - Iowa: Supreme Court 1971. Accessed February 10, 2023.

Lawts. 'Katko v. Briney.' Last modified July 13, 2011.

Maniloff, Randy. "Meet the Lawyer, 93, Who Tried the Torts Spring-Gun Case." Last modified January 30, 2017. Law.

"What about self-defence." Washington Evening Journal, January 22, 1970.