It's so bad that they even advertise this special "night table --the legs can be rapidly detatched and are baseball bats --the laying surface becomes a shield with straps.
Posted on 02/17/2011 9:19:10 AM PST by Sasparilla
English don’t have much in the way of firearms protection from burglars in the home. But an air rifle can be an exception.
Gary Holmes, who was at home with his girlfriend and child, spotted a man prowling around in his home’s garden area. He went upstairs for a better look and saw 20 year old Lewis Patterson break a window in his home with a baseball bat. He hit the window hard enough to break the bat. Then the burglar used a metal bar to complete his entry.
When Holmes got downstairs, Patterson was trying to get the homeowner’s motorbike out of the house. Aware of Britain’s restrictive home defense laws, and the consequences of shooting a burglar, Holmes just showed Patterson that he had an air rifle. He yelled at the man to leave and gave him a chance to leave. That was when Patterson raised the metal bar and came at the homeowner. Holmes responded, raised his air rifle, and shot the man.
The man then picked up a brick and threw it at Holmes. What he didn’t know was that the homeowner’s air rifle was a bolt action repeater. Holmes reloaded and shot the man again.
Patterson ran away. In an effort to get Holmes arrested, he...
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Criminal charges against the homeowner will be forthcoming.
If this man goes to jail, then the Brits are truly lost....
My first thought too.
And how did a baseball bat end up in England? Do they import them for use by hard working criminals?
“Holmes reloaded and shot the man again.”
`e’s a regular `Dirty `enry’ yer `oner.
It's so bad that they even advertise this special "night table --the legs can be rapidly detatched and are baseball bats --the laying surface becomes a shield with straps.
It’s like breaking into a home in St. Louis with a cricket bat.
They came from California...
seems the nanny CA gobmint deemed metal bats "too dangerous for teenagers" and made all the little leagues and schools buy all new wood bats at great expense.
The UK has truly gone insane. Or their lawmakers anyway. The victim goes to jail while the crook is free to invade more homes.
Insane.
The Brits need to take the same approach as ranchers in our west are with wolves.
Shoot and shovel and shutup.
Should be about a foot long...
so the attacker can be impaled on it.
This homeowner will likely face charges, the home invader will not.
The home owner will get arrested and sent to jail more than likely.
As if breaking into someones home isn't threatening.
Got a buss load of old aluminum bats for free when such lunacy went on in some locale here.
One in every room.
Nothing like a smashed elbow and knee to reconcile ones view of the universe and the position occupied.
Anything with a barrel just gets you arrested.
If a dozen YOBs disappeared every night, it wouldn't be long until they stop committing crimes.
Yes, and you can thank the idiot Blair and his government for that, with their incessant fetish for signing us up to European legislation and treaties we didn’t want.
The “stupid” judges and “stupid” cops are only enforcing a work-to-rule based on the “stupid” legislation that BLAIR and co signed us up to.
We’ve had a Parliamentary debate this week where the new government have been moaning about stupid judicial decisions with a view to creating our own Bill of Rights and junking the idiot thing Blair signed us up to.
Adding... Unless you are willing to kill.
And toss life as you know of it away.
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