Marijuana grower killed — and nearly decapitated — by booby trap he set to protect plants

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Police say Daniel Rickett was drunkenly riding a quad bike when he ran into his own piano wire trap. Hikers found the 50-year-old's body lying near four large plants
By Lee Moran / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS




An upstate New York marijuana grower accidentally killed himself with the booby trap he'd set up to protect his plants, police said.

Daniel Ricketts was almost decapitated Saturday after he drunkenly drove his quad bike into barely visible thin piano wire strung up around his plantation in Berne, Albany County.

The 50-year-old was thrown from his Honda Foreman, his head almost entirely severed from his body.

Hikers spotted his lifeless corpse and called cops. Police also found barbed wire and a leg trap used to catch coyotes surrounding the four large plants.

Ricketts was pronounced dead at the scene by Albany County Coroner Paul Marra.

Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple said the rural hills in the county are often used to secretly grow drugs.

"They go up there and they'll grow marijuana on a lot of the state lands. Fortunately hikers, people out and about, neighbors will call us and they'll tell us," he told CBS 6.

Officers removed the plants from the property and are now continuing their investigation into the tragedy.

[Muddy]

Damn, you're gonna kill people over 4 pot plants? You prolly deserved what you got druggie..

[deebakes]

[PorkChopSandwiches]

[deebakes]

[Acid Trip]

The only way piano wire is dangerous is traveling at high speeds. Someone on foot would have just bumped into it.

[Noilly Pratt]

"tragedy" -- I'd call it karma.

I just watched yesterday with my daughter an old Gilligan's Island episode where someone was stealing the flares and flare gun. Gilligan set up a man-trap and ended up catching not the thief but him and then the Skipper...

...I thought the plot was stupid, but here we are in reality.