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Sorry for the months late reply, but I just thought that \\\"hoist by his own petard\\\" simply meant downfalls inflicted by ones\\\' own actions. Are you familiar with the case of Emmett Clifton Nave of Missouri by any chance? If not, he was a sex offender and career criminal that abducted 6 nurses from a hospital after he murdered his landlady. Nave forced his hostages to inject drugs into him, and he overdosed and went unconscious as a result. Obviously, this made it very easy for the responding officers to arrest him, and he was sentenced to death and executed for his crime spree.

Does Nave\\\'s case count as TV Trope\\\'s definition of \\\"hoist by his own petard\\\"? As it was his desire to steal hospital prescriptions and his subsequent overdosing from forcing his captives into administering them into him that lead to his capture.
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Sorry for the months late reply, but I just thought that \
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Sorry for the months late reply, but I just thought that \\\"hoist by his own petard\\\" simply meant downfalls inflicted by ones\\\' own actions. Are you familiar with the case of Emmett Clifton Nave of Missouri by any chance? If not, he was a sex offender, career criminal, and addict that abducted 6 nurses from a hospital after he murdered his landlady. Nave forced his hostages to inject drugs into him, and he overdosed and went unconscious as a result. Obviously, this made it very easy for the responding officers to arrest him, and he was sentenced to death and executed for his crime spree.

Does Nave\\\'s case count as TV Trope\\\'s definition of \\\"hoist by his own petard\\\"? As it was his desire to steal hospital prescriptions and his subsequent overdosing from forcing his captives into administering them into him that lead to his capture.
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