[bigstrat2003]

> If it kills someone or causes grievous bodily harm, it's still on you. Yes, even if it's a burglar.

Honestly, the laws in your locale are unjust and need to be rewritten. There should be absolutely no liability to the owner (or renter) of a property if someone burglarizing it gets hurt accidentally.

[syntheticnature]

Laws against booby trapping and the like are fairly universal. Even without criminal penalties, the liability if you catch someone innocent should give you pause.

[praptak]

Well it kind of depends on what exactly happened. For example there are building codes, like "no deadly drops without guardrails". If you leave something like this then you are breaking the law. If somebody dies because of this then it's on you, even if they were breaking another law.

I'm not sure how you could rewrite self defense law to cover this case.

[lazide]

Notably though, it’s usually civil law. So someone would have to have standing to sue (typically family). And typically more of an attractive nuisance type deal.

So it’s of the sort of thing where if someone is in your house, and falls off something and hurts themselves because of something negligent you did or whatever, then yeah they can sue for damages. Regardless of if they had your permission to be there, because you had a duty to not leave something obviously dangerous just lying there.

But it does lead to a lot of weird/unjust situations - either if the law does exist, or if it doesn’t.