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[Scooby Doo] Would Fred's traps be illegal under the "rigged shotgun" court case?

Lethal traps are obviously banned; I don't know about non lethal ones but I'm unsure what something like a cage rigged to fall around you would be viewed as.
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Out in the real world traps aimed at humans are a legal issue on multiple levels, but the situation in Fred's world is very different. In many iterations of Scooby Doo it's made clear that booby trapping is not only legal, but is considered a field in which one may be an enthusiast or even a professional. The field has a number of publications (which vary in quality to serious trade publications to magazines Fred needs to swear he "only reads for the articles"), and in at least one case (spoilers for the most recent SD animated series below):

>!One can make not just a healthy living from trap construction and design but a literal fortune, as Fred's parents are shown to have made a fat stack of cash in the trap field.!<