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beast5680:
what with recent discussions and the government saying they will not change the law regarding how much force you can use to protect your property, i see they say they will educate everyone as to what reasonable force is!,  what do you consider to be reasonable force?
personally if someone was in my house i would be kicking the living daylights out of them unless they were armed in which case they would force me to unleash--The Wife!!! Waking her up at some ungodly hour is not to be recomended :shock: I know i have the scars

Whitelandyman90:
Yeah, I'm with you. In that situation you have no idea what or who you are dealing with. If I found a stranger in my house I would regard 'reasonable force' as being whatever it took to ensure that he didn't get up again :!: I'd rather be around to defend my actions in court than risk a different outcome.

Bush Tucker Man:
The phrase 'Ivory Towers' always comes to mind in situations like this.

We've got 2 'Burglar Containment' alarms in the house, who require no arming or maintainance.
That's to say 2 grumpy, territorial & (very) stranger-unfriendly Border Collies.
Jack and Gypsy


There's also a 4 D-cell 'Mag-Lite' kept at the side of our bed,just in case there's a power cut.
After all I don't want to trip over someone (sorry.... thing) coming down stairs & 'accidentally' hit it :lol:

Didn't I hear a comment on Jeremy Vine (Radio 2) yesterday dinnertine about how;
'Your House Is The Burglars Workplace, & You have A Duty Of Care Towards Him' :shock:
I presume the correspondant was taking the wee-wee? (at least I hope so!)

Bush Tucker Man:
So far, at least, those photos of the mother-in-law on the 3 outside doors have kept them away
 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :roll:

Bush Tucker Man:
I did consider getting a sign made up (if onlyto p*ss off the bloke who we lived next door to before we moved)

'Warning. Protected by Tony Martin Security Services'

Not that it was a bad area by any definition of the word, in almost 10 years we never even had a bottle of milk taken.
I've left (inadvertantly) the Discovery unlocked with a window down a few times overnight on the roadside & it's obviously still been there.

SWMBO was renown amongst the neighbours for doing the same with her Astra, & subsequently, the Fabia.

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