Booby trap's found on beach

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Originally Posted by Herald sun

SHOCKING booby traps have been laid at a popular northern New South Wales beach.

Tweed Heads man Dave Gittins and his 11-year-old daughter Tayla stumbled across some of the traps at Fingal Head at the weekend.

One consisted of a cluster of razor-sharp steel spikes welded to a plate and buried in sand.

Another crude trap, made of nails driven into timber, punctured a tyre on the family's four-wheel-drive when they went for a surf on Saturday.

A family friend who got out of the car to investigate needed hospital treatment after standing on a nail trap.

"It's terrible, shocking," Mr Gittins said. "I don't know what would possess someone to do something like this because so many people, including kids, use this beach.

"These things are bloody dangerous and deliberately designed to cause serious injury."

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Mr Gittins said the booby traps had been laid in sand dunes just off a road leading to the beach, which is popular with surfers and fishermen. They were buried under sand and piles of leaves.

"Whoever has made them has gone to a lot of trouble," he said. "If you look at the design, if someone stood on one, the spikes would go straight through their foot and they'd be badly impaled.

"They haven't been there that long, either, because they're not rusty."

Fingal is a peninsula between the Tweed River and Pacific Ocean. It houses both an Aboriginal community and beachfront millionaires.

Local Aborigines have staged protests against development but Mr Gittins said anyone could have laid the booby traps.

He said beach tracks used by 4WDs had recently been excavated in an effort to make them impassable.

Jet skier Guy Neumann, who helped the Gittins family after their tyre was punctured, said he feared the tracks could be "laced" with booby traps.

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