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Evictions and recovery of property are the business of the Sheriff's office around here. The cops could care less.

Now, about the opportunity to shoot somebody ~ if we had the Texas law in place, then when that guy came out with a shotgun, if it'd been here, we could have plugged him on the spot couldn't we. No questions asked.

That's why you really do have to be careful who you shoot even if you think the law is on your side.

Sometimes it's simply a case of someone not being polite, and then the guys getting shot are the plumbers who were putting in a new drain while you were on vacation somewhere.

Or, in our hypothetical case here (where we don't have the Texas law, but if we did) anyone who questioned us breaking into my friend's home could be shot ~ wouldn't even have to notice if he had a weapon ~ just note that he was impertinent and nosey ~ then bang.

All these cases where an armed man shoots unarmed people in somebody else's front yard almost all go to trial and he goes to jail.

In some cases it doesn't seem right, but in general it's not good public policy to let folks shoot unarmed people.

Did your neighbor call the Sheriff’s office and try to obtain the key? Also, why not just call the local dept. and let them know the situation so if someone did see you guys breaking in and called the cops they would know it’s kosher. The guy who shot the scum did call 911 first. Besides, I’m pretty sure the neighbors already knew some of what was going on already.

I understand your hypotheticals; however, how many stories of plumbers being shot by neighbors do we hear about? And how many stories of landlords reclaiming their homes by breaking into them because they didn’t have a key do we hear about? I cannot recall even one. Ask me how many stories I hear of scum breaking the law.....endless.

We can come up w/ hypotheticals for EVERYTHING and therefore, not do anything about anything because “something” might happen.

All these cases where an armed man shoots unarmed people in somebody else's front yard almost all go to trial and he goes to jail.

Not generally when there's property stolen from that "somebody else's" home laying around in the yard.

Here in Texas they usually go to the grand jury, which promptly returns a "no bill", thus clearing the defender of any criminal responsibility, and helping him out in the civil case that may follow.