Team Philadelphia builders were able to avoid the tragedy of the empty house, where they ran into a deadly trap. It was «departing» a knife, if a person accidentally touched the leg line stretched.
According to Ekrem Iseler, a representative of one of the Philadelphia construction companies (state of Pennsylvania), with colleagues they had recently viewed a vacant house in the southwest part of the city. Suddenly one of the men noticed the line stretched around the floor via the staircase that led to the second floor.
The men decided not to risk it, suspecting something was wrong, they found a stick in the house and turned the cameras on phones to photograph the results of their experiment.
When they touched the line, somewhere above the «flew» a sharp knife. It was attached with the blade forward at the level of the human head, climbing the stairs.
Source: Screenshot/Ekrem Uysaler
In the video, hear men swear, seeing this.
«Fortunately, we noticed the trap before someone got hurt, said Iseler. We found different things in empty houses, for example, caches of drugs, but this «bomb» ladder – something!».
It is unknown whether the developers in the police.
After they recovered from the shock, the man found the strength to joke over the situation.
«This is some «home Alone» in the Philadelphia style,» said one of them.
