Posted on 11/08/2007 10:16:23 AM PST by neverdem
A DAD grabbed a drunken teenager he thought was trying to break into his home, handed him to police – and was arrested.
Now Mark Goldberg fears he could lose his Ministry of Defence job if he is prosecuted.
The head chef, who has children aged five and 15, heard a noise at the window of his townhouse at around 10.30pm. He opened the curtains and spotted the yob teetering on the window ledge.
Mark, 38, said: “He must have jumped over railings and climbed up a drainpipe. But when I went out he tried to say he was looking for someone.”
While his wife called police in Gravesend, Kent, Mark grappled with the teenager – who may have been attending a nearby party.
He managed to flee but Mark chased him and marched him back to waiting cops. To his amazement they arrested HIM for assault.
He said: “The police said the guy had a fat lip. We did tussle and fall to the ground but I didn’t hit him. He’s just making up stories and they believe him, not me. They threw me in a cell for 15 hours.”
Mark has been told he must return to the police station on December 6. He is the latest in a string of householders to be arrested trying to protect their homes and property.
Mark said: “This country has gone barmy. You can’t even protect your own family in your own home any more.”
A police spokesman said: “Our investigations continue.”
Well, there’s always “Shoot, Shovel, Shut Up” ... but I guess that may have resulted in trouble as well.
sounds similar to what is happening to our border patrol agents
Barmy?
There seems to be a concerted effort by UK police to punish homeowners who defend their homes.
I can’t believe the teetering yob got away with it! Sheesh! yobs these days....
It was once a great country.
Can't have the sheeple not behaving like sheep!
Barmy government not letting people tackle teetering yobs. Bezoomny not to let the droogs tolchock his yarbles.
On the serious side this is nonsense. Father of two in his own home versus drunk teenager and the police believe the drunk teenager?
Pretty well sums it up; surprising somebody on that side of the pond could see it that clearly, though.
Was the miscreant teenager a member of TROP, the sacred cows of the UK? The homeowner may be in deep shi’ite for refusing to embrace his dhimmitude..
Good thing he didn’t try to hug him. That’s *real* trouble.
Insane. Looney. Nuts. Whacko.
Barmy
barm·y (bärm)
adj. barm·i·er, barm·i·est
1. Full of barm; foamy.
2. Eccentric; daft.
MASSACHUSETTS has the same policy, you rough up an intruder, YOU go to jail, period AND the intruder can turn around and sue you on top of it!
One of my favorite movie, er, lines from movie is: “I got a .45 and a shovel. I doubt anyone will miss you.”
I still think, while it was a Dukakis law, it was intended to protect members of the Kennedy family when they find themselves too cheap to pay for chauffeurs or other chaperones..
the police believed a drunk teenage boy over a grown, sober and intelligent man... methinks that the policeman should be looking for a new job sometime in the near future...
Oh, my brothers, what's 'appened to the old place?
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