Yes but he's abdicating another crime in the process.
Confucius say if you're plotting revenge you should dig 2 graves.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.....my reply was "Tongue in cheek".
"Revenge is a dish best served cold" could also apply.
I personally would never take an old RS mobile, seal it in a battery box and hide a yard sale mobile antenna in a tree behind the offender's house and hook it to 2 junkyard batteries with a simple ic circuit to switch from the drained battery to the good battery at 9 volts output, knowing well and good that at 4W output with a simple tone generated by the radio that such a set-up will operate for 2 weeks, 4 days and about 4 hours before it finally dies.
No sir, not me. I only use that as a purely hypothetical situation.