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MOSCOW — A farmer in Russia’s Far East has been handed a suspended prison sentence for planting explosives in his field to ward off potato thieves.
The RIA Novosti news agency says Alexander Skopintsev, 73, made three tripwire-tethered explosives loaded with salt to ward off trespassers after several spud-snatchings in June 2009. A neighbor suffered a lip injury after triggering one of the devices at the farm in the Primorye region.
