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IMO...When it comes to an automated booby trap you have to take extra measures to ensure that it is safe....because you've removed the human discretion from it. And they have to be really stupid person safe.
Take for example your sound grenade...if a guy is crawling along trying to sneak up on you guys, if you're tossing the grenade yourself you may not throw it to land right beside his face...and if you happened to because you're a prick then at least he'd have a chance to react to it to protect himself. If it's automated...that's not possible. If it's dark/shaded/partially hidden (like a good booby trap would be) it raises the risk.
Tripping hazards are another. No matter how light you've got the trigger/release/pin set, or how klutzy someone would have to be to trip on it, you've got to assume that someone is going to trip and fall. In all directions. Why? Because it's not a mother nature has put it there bump in the ground...you've put it there.
And...you've got to go back and disable/remove every trap you've put out there when you're done. Easy enough to do...just tag each with a GPS and collect/clean them up.
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