UK: Couple forced to take in criminal lodger after he tells court their house is HIS home address

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | December 19, 2007

[PAR35]

I’d unplug the monitor box, and tell the cops to run their own electric and phone lines to it. Then while the dude was out during the day, I’d change the locks. If the daughter lets him in, I’d change them again while they both were out.

[mountn man]

And the problem is what?

The lakes not cold enough.

[weegee]

So now the UK has gone from encouraging people to give birth at home to free up hospital space and liability to forcing people to host unrelated criminals.

Socialism is wonderful.

[SAMS]

I was thinking Buckingham Palace....

[mountn man]

Just another loser in the home of losers. Often times filled with 38,000 other losers.

[Chode]

sorry officer... he attacked my wife so i had to kill the worthless POS!!!

[Tax-chick]

Good points, both of you. Britain needs a few hundred Sheriff Joe Arpaios! (The U.S. could use more, too.)

[Fiji Hill]

It could have been 240 West Addison, Chicago, Illinois...

Or 5801 W. Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles (the La Brea Tar Pits).

[WoofDog123]

something wrong here with all the posed shots of the various participants. I do not believe the substance of the story.

[denydenydeny]

For all you scholars out there, this case (if in the USA) would fall under the forgotten Third Amendment (involutary quartering) I believe.

The Quartering Act was one of the reasons we threw the British out. It is painful to see that they haven't learned from the experience.

[Stoat]

something wrong here with all the posed shots of the various participants. I do not believe the substance of the story.

What sort of photos would have provided more believability for you?  If there were shots of all parties beating each other bloody, it would have been terribly easy to call those photos "staged" as well.

At the moment this story is being carried by a number of UK papers in addition to the Daily Mail

'Tagged criminal moved into our house' - Mirror.co.uk

24dash.com v2 beta » News » Local Government » Couple 'forced to live' with criminal lodger

News Crime JPs 'let a thug live with us' The Sun HomePageNews

Married couple forced to house criminal Metro.co.uk

BBC NEWS UK England Bristol-Somerset Loophole leads to unwanted guest

Couple forced to take in criminal lodger after he tells court their house is HIS home address News This is London

[WoofDog123]

“What sort of photos would have provided more believability for you? “

Perhaps something a bit less staged.

Hypothetical question - if the above house is yours, and I am the parolee living in your house under government compulsion, will you pose in your living room with me for the media to take pictures of us all drinking coffee, as above? Look at the picture above and tell me you would take that pose.

That photo is staged, and staged in a way adversarial parties wouldn’t agree to do.

All the tabloid media can carry this story, but the staged photos tell me there is more (or less) going on that is being said, one way or another. It could be as simple as the girl’s parents having agreed to let him stay but then decided (or others decided) to attempt to get some publicity by misrepresenting matters.

Call me terribly cynical, but I believe print stories about non-public persons are 90% fabrication. Stuff like this sells papers, after all....

[Stoat]

Hypothetical question - if the above house is yours, and I am the parolee living in your house under government compulsion, will you pose in your living room with me for the media to take pictures of us all drinking coffee, as above? Look at the picture above and tell me you would take that pose.

Considering that the homeowners are at the end of their rope, having had no luck with trying to reason with the various Government entities involved and having themselves contacted the media in order to try to get the matter dealt with, yes I would sit down for pictures for them.  There is nothing left for them to do in their efforts to gain relief from this mess.

None of them took too happy.  They all look as though they would much rather be somewhere else rather than in this situation, but are sitting for the photo because that gives the story a human element.  It wouldn't have been much of a story without photos.

All the tabloid media can carry this story,

I knew that the "tabloid" moniker would come up, which is why I included such story links as the BBC and This Is London; news sites that I haven't heard as being labeled "tabloid" ......yet   :-)

Stuff like this sells papers, after all....

And sometimes Socialist Government agencies do indeed make awful mistakes and leave people with no recourse other than to contact the press.

[RightOnline]

Oh no problem. I’d tell him “you’re welcome to stay here as long as you wish......as long as you can endure hourly ass-kickings from me; deal?”.