A farmer from a Far Eastern village was sentenced to 2.5 years of suspended sentence for installing self-made tripwire-type mines on in his farm to ward off unwanted guests.

Worried by constant disappearance of potatoes from his field, 73-year-old Alexander Skopintsev made three tripwire mines, charged with gunpowder and salt, to protect his yield. The first one to get salt in the face was the man's neighbor, Stanislav Manoilenko.

Skopintsev pleaded guilty to illegal storage and production of explosives, but said the neighbor should not have stepped into his territory.

The victim, who suffered a lip injury, told the court the bomb went off when he walked down the path, which separated the two fields.

VLADIVOSTOK, February 12 (RIA Novosti)