What would you do if you found a thief in your house?
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My old work mate used to live at his parents and had to work nights.
On this occasion he came home during the night as opposed to the morning and went to bed. At about 7:00 in the morning he heard something downstairs, he thought it was his dad and his dad thought it was him coming home from work.
When they both went to check and realised it was neither of them they went downstairs and saw two people with balaclavas taking their stuff. My mate's first reaction was to grab a bat and go after them. He hit one at the top of the arm and they ran out the door without anything.
When the police came he said 'Yeah, I hit one at the top of his arm'
but the police said 'You know your not suppose to do that, I'll let you rephrase your last statement.'
He then changed it to 'Um.. I hurried him out the door' and they took that down instead.
He went out afterwards and bought a new metal bat for his dad, and went into the living room with it and said 'Dad! I just bought you a new bat!'
Ironically at the time when the police were in their still taking statements and dusting for prints. One of them said 'I hope that's for hitting balls!'
My mate replied 'I will next time!'
On this occasion he came home during the night as opposed to the morning and went to bed. At about 7:00 in the morning he heard something downstairs, he thought it was his dad and his dad thought it was him coming home from work.
When they both went to check and realised it was neither of them they went downstairs and saw two people with balaclavas taking their stuff. My mate's first reaction was to grab a bat and go after them. He hit one at the top of the arm and they ran out the door without anything.
When the police came he said 'Yeah, I hit one at the top of his arm'
but the police said 'You know your not suppose to do that, I'll let you rephrase your last statement.'
He then changed it to 'Um.. I hurried him out the door' and they took that down instead.
He went out afterwards and bought a new metal bat for his dad, and went into the living room with it and said 'Dad! I just bought you a new bat!'
Ironically at the time when the police were in their still taking statements and dusting for prints. One of them said 'I hope that's for hitting balls!'
My mate replied 'I will next time!'
This has also been my experience when talking to the lowest of low lifes.
Fair enough then, luckily most of the chavs round my area have staffys also so I always stop and have chat when they see me walking him. It helps that he is 3 times the size of theirs as they always fuss him.
I may not want to hang around with them, but it's good to know them and get on with them.
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set my 3 free ranging amercian bulls( like 50 kilo staffies)with their attack word, and loose up the 2 rotties would take a train for me, thats if anyone would be daft enough here, within compound, fully remoted 24 hour colour cctv and other extrodinary security measures for a house.
if anyone did get in i'd do my best to fully incapacitate them, permanently.
Overkill? prolly, but I was badly hurt once in the house, i'd just do it now.
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oh, and I might wake him up if it was real serious but he gets grumpy without 8 hours kip.
if anyone did get in i'd do my best to fully incapacitate them, permanently.
Overkill? prolly, but I was badly hurt once in the house, i'd just do it now.
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oh, and I might wake him up if it was real serious but he gets grumpy without 8 hours kip.
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Funnily enough, after reading this thread yesterday I went home and set about cleaning the kitchen window and front door of the house.
While cleaning the door I noticed damage to the plastics just next to the lock, also a small piece of the frame missing just next to that, and scratches on the metal inside the frame (where the closed door meets it).
Obviously some chav's been at it with a screwdriver or similar. God knows when, though, as it's not something I've ever really bothered looking closely at.
Time to call the police, get a reference number and have the insurance replace the door and frame, then! Not too bothered though as it IS a bit draughty and could do with a swap.
Yet another reason to move out of this hell hole, though. Bloody scum.
While cleaning the door I noticed damage to the plastics just next to the lock, also a small piece of the frame missing just next to that, and scratches on the metal inside the frame (where the closed door meets it).
Obviously some chav's been at it with a screwdriver or similar. God knows when, though, as it's not something I've ever really bothered looking closely at.
Time to call the police, get a reference number and have the insurance replace the door and frame, then! Not too bothered though as it IS a bit draughty and could do with a swap.
Yet another reason to move out of this hell hole, though. Bloody scum.
See if I'm perfectly honest if I did catch someone in my house I honestly don't think I'd be able to stop attacking them once I started. It's a bit different, it doesn't matter how strong or good a fighter the person breaking in is you're fighting for your life and your families life.
"Mind if I just take that crossbow out your leg so I can just use it again?"
Bothered.
Dry your eyes you silly fanny.
Hmmm 
interesting topic.
I've known a friend of my Uncle's actually get arrested for knocking a burglar out in his property many years ago (in the late 90's). Apparently his wife was on the phone to the police and said her husband had "knocked him out" and just came straight in and arrested him. Not sure what/if any charges were brought against him.
What would i do in that situation i probably honestly couldnt say as people react very differently under pressure. I do have a 7 iron (Slazenger) as my home defence and a couple of 30kg weights to chuck onto them if they tried coming up the stairs.
I would like to say if (in similar position to OPs Dads mate(?)) that i would literally just hit them until they were unconscious before calling the police.
Have had a guy i used to teach be in the situation who had a really big scar where 2 burglars were in his property he attacked one without realising there was another behind him and got stabbed. Never found who did it mind. But he nearly died.
In my opinion the law should be based on common sense. If the burglar wasn't doing something like that in the first place... they wouldn't have got hurt. The end. Any claim of assault etc would be out the window for the burglar.
interesting topic.I've known a friend of my Uncle's actually get arrested for knocking a burglar out in his property many years ago (in the late 90's). Apparently his wife was on the phone to the police and said her husband had "knocked him out" and just came straight in and arrested him. Not sure what/if any charges were brought against him.
What would i do in that situation i probably honestly couldnt say as people react very differently under pressure. I do have a 7 iron (Slazenger) as my home defence and a couple of 30kg weights to chuck onto them if they tried coming up the stairs.
I would like to say if (in similar position to OPs Dads mate(?)) that i would literally just hit them until they were unconscious before calling the police.
Have had a guy i used to teach be in the situation who had a really big scar where 2 burglars were in his property he attacked one without realising there was another behind him and got stabbed. Never found who did it mind. But he nearly died.
In my opinion the law should be based on common sense. If the burglar wasn't doing something like that in the first place... they wouldn't have got hurt. The end. Any claim of assault etc would be out the window for the burglar.
The common sense side of it is that if the law permitted you to leather anyone in your home, then you would have a cast iron defence for any violent offence against anyone if you could just persuade them into your home first.
True.
I was thinking more of a flying armbar but each to their own!
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