Two Utah men were arrested for planting deadly, medieval-style booby traps along a hiking trail popular with families and college students, police said. Benjamin Steven Rutkowski, 19, and Kai Matthew Christensen, 21, set the traps inside a crude shelter along a trail in Provo Canyon last week, the Utah County Sheriff's Office said. Both traps were rigged with trip wire, police said. One was designed to swing a spiked ball at the head of whoever tripped the wire, while the other would have caused someone to fall onto sharpened spikes placed in the ground, police said. "That would kill people, easily," hiker Emily Hammerstad told Salt Lake City's FOX 13 News. "It's just awful and sickening that people would do that kind of thing." Cops said the pair confessed to setting the traps, and they were charged with reckless endangerment, a misdemeanor. Had someone been hurt, the two would face felony charges, police said...
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