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disco2 td5:
I hope they do catch the little get n cut there hands off if they did that there would be very little crime 

john656:
"how much for the criminal this country is" sums it up in one. What really peaves me is that if we defend what is ours we're more likely to be prosecuted than the little [!Expletive Deleted!] doing the stealing.
Someone i know had pulled over to send a text. Mid way through the text little arse lent in through his window took his wallet and ran off. Lad drove his car down the road jumped out with a wheel brace and bonked said scrote on the head and got his wheel back. Result.
I hope that the police come back with something for you.
Best of luck

John

Disco Matt:

--- Quote from: john656 on June 06, 2010, 21:56:58 ---"how much for the criminal this country is" sums it up in one. What really peaves me is that if we defend what is ours we're more likely to be prosecuted than the little [!Expletive Deleted!] doing the stealing.

John

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There is actually plenty of protection within law for people acting in self defence. So if you hear a noise at night and go downstairs having picked up a large spanner on the way, then chase the scrotes out of your house waving said spanner and bellowing at them then you're fine. Any reasonable person would fear for their safety if confronted with an intruder. The same goes for using reasonable force to make a citizen's arrest if you catch them in the act of attempting to steal your property.

What you are not allowed to do is chase them down the street and beat them to a pulp, or shoot them in the back while they're running away. Self defence only applies until they no longer pose an immediate threat to you.

The sentences handed out are a different matter entirely, suffice to say that I find it astonishing how shoplifting is often less expensive than straying over the speed limit by a few mph!

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