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ErictheViking:
JW thats bad, lol. Thats always the poetic justice of prison when it comes to rapists.

dwardo:
Should be over here in the UK, i believe we are obliged by law to help the thief carry out our belongings, just incase he throws his back out whlst carrying my tv away and sues me...

DCM4:
We have always lived out from town.  20 acres at that time, basically such that you could take a chainsaw and cut yourself a door in our old home place and nobody would wonder... as long as you got down the drive without being seen.  Got burglarized while at work and they stole guns and stuff.  This was bout 2 weeks after a giant Halloween party my brother threw.  I mean freakin' part-tay where 100 people showed up, friends of friends of friends kinda thing.  Be mindful of who gets into your house, invited.  Some of them will want to come back...

I learned my lesson.

We had a convenience store, Mom and Dad's second "career," although I was the one doing the 80 hr weeks.  Had my old .410 single barrel Stevens (my first gun when I was 7) behind the counter, more or less as a snake gun.  Somebody tore the door off the place (again out in the country) one night and took beer, cigs, coins from the pool tables and poker machine, and my ole .410.  Sheriff took my report.  About 6 weeks later got a call from the Sheriff.  Picked some ahole up dwi and found my lil slip of paper hidden under the butt plate of the .410 w/ my name etc., serial numbers matched just like I'd told him.  Was able to charge him with the break-in as well.  That was a long time ago, still have that lil ole .410.

JW_Halverson:

--- Quote from: dwardo on November 19, 2010, 08:27:51 am ---Should be over here in the UK, i believe we are obliged by law to help the thief carry out our belongings, just incase he throws his back out whlst carrying my tv away and sues me...

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And sadly, it was YOUR law where the U.S. was inspired to adopt it's Castle Doctrine, i.e. a man's home is his castle.  It was British Common Law that held that a person has the right to lawfully defend themselves and their possessions, we just copied it.  I've read about instances where British citizens have fought back against an intruder bent on violence only to be the one charged, tried, and imprisoned while the violent offender sues for damages and wins.  Back in the 1970's MAD Magazine had a strip where everyone boarding a plane was handed a weapon of their choice.  The look of discouragement on the would-be hijacker's face was only eclipsed by the look of eagerness on the little old lady with the sawed off shotgun!  An armed society is a polite society.

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