On October 2nd, an FBI agent was shot while investigating an Oregon home. His attacker? A rigged wheelchair. It seems like a scene from Looney Tunes, but the house, which most recently belonged to Gregory Lee Rodvelt, was more like a place of nightmares.

Rodvelt, who had lost the house in a civil matter, booby-trapped the property out of spite. The attorney in charge of selling the property, Joseph Charter, called the police after his car was damaged by spikes on the road up to the house. The FBI agent and three Oregon police bomb technicians cautiously approached the property, noting a sign that informed intruders that the house was “protected by improvised devices”.

Blocking the driveway was a minivan rigged with two steel bear traps to maim the unwary. Above the driveway, directly from a scene in Indiana Jones, was a circular hot tub meant to roll down and crush whoever attempted to open the front gate. Upon opening the garage, the authorities found an improvised rat trap, modified to hold a shotgun shell, which thankfully was never armed. Inside, the house was strewn with a large amount of what appeared to be junk. When the agent moved a wheelchair, there was a loud bang and he sustained an injury in his leg.

Inside the wheelchair, there was another rat trap – this time it was armed – that expended its shell into the agent’s leg. Rodvelt, who was in Arizona at the time, facing different, unrelated charges of assault and possession of explosives, is also now being charged with assault with a deadly weapon.