3 S’s
Shoot, shovel, shut up.
OH WAIT this is the UK
make that the 3 B’s
Bludgeon, bury, be quite
This guy wouldn't recognize common sense if it broke into his house and beat the hell out of him.
In the UK, defending yourself from criminals is actually a crime. Most crimes go unreported for no one actually expects the police to apprehend criminals and they are not going to be punished in the event they are actually prosecuted.
I was going to say, ‘well, a guess a burglar could sue if he cut himself on yr. wire, if he also happened to working for OSHA, and doing a safety inspection’, but then I saw this was from the UK.
It’s a pattern that occurs predictably here, there, and everywhere.....they’re ineffective fighting crime, the criminals are nowhere to be found, the criminals CAN’T be controlled, so the things they CAN control are the victims, who tend to stay put and are easily findable.They’re good at issuing good, friendly, ‘practical’ warnings like “please don’t cover anything with wire, the criminal could hurt himself’, which implies that the UK is also full of barristers ready to jump at the chance to cash in on personal injury cases. It’s happened hundreds of times on our southern border, the most blatant example anywhere of ‘criminals invading your (our) space’.
My parents house was broken into and my brother came home to find the burglers in the house. They fled the house through the backyard and over the ten foot privacy fence. After that my dad lined rcthe top of the fence with six inch spikes.
I’ve been warning him that he’d probably end up looking at a lawsuit should anybody including another burglar scaled the fence and got hung up on those spikes.
Farewell, England.
So I guess this means motion sensor activated flame-throwers are a definate no-no?????
Glad I don’t live there or I would be in real trouble.
Hey not to worry, when the Muslims finally take over in England, those crooks might not only have their hands chopped off, but they might not have a leg to stand on, on their attempt to sue.
Many years back I had a “friend” who would constantly enter my house (trailer) uninvited when I wasn’t home. After locking all the doors he started climbing in the windows. It was summer and I didn’t want to close the windows so I took a bunch of nails and hammered them in part way along the length of the sill. Then I cut them off at sharp angles just below the nail head. SOB still managed to get in there somehow and to this day I’m not really sure how.
My question to our english friends. Why do you continue to employ police?
That place is lost. Lunatics are running everything. The people may as well all commit suicide and get it over with asap.
Then, eight feet in from the buckthorn, I planted an inner perimeter line of Texas red cedars eight feet apart all around the line. Didn't cost me a cent, as I just dug out seedlings under the larger cedars already in the yard and went from yard to yard offering to dig up all of their little cedars. The seedlings varied in height from six inches or so to two feet tall.
After they were all planted, I went out to the open range on Fort Hood after a major field exercise and policed up about 50 rolls of concertina wire. I unrolled the concertina wire over the seedlings and carefully monitored their growth over the next five years.
Now, the buckthorn is growing along the inside of the fenceline, backed up by some very nasty 20-foot tall red cedars, with their branches interlaced through growth.
Inside that cedar hedge, at a varying height of between two and five feet, is a coil of very sharp, very rusty concertina razor wire.
My late wife wanted bunkers and machine gun nests, but I had to draw the line somewhere. [smile]
When the doorbell rings, either my present wife or I will look out the small kitchen window that flanks the front door and porch. If it's someone we don't recognize, we retrieve the pistol (for me) and the shotgun (for her) and open up the window to ask them their business.
Should they try to break in the steel door, they're going to have a little problem because, whenever one of us is in the house, the two deadbolts are thrown (2.5 inches of deadbolt into the doorframe which is a treated 4x4) and the bar is across the middle of the door (a 2x4 in the manner somewhat akin to what you see across castle gates held in steel braces with 2-inch bolts securing it to the 4x4 door frame).
The windows are all covered with painted treated wooden lattice .. easy enough to kick out if you have to escape a fire, but delaying and noisy enough to discourage break-ins .. and, underneath the paneling below the kitchen window is a 4'x4' piece of 3/8-inch steel plating from a salvage yard, in case of gunfire into the kitchen when we're asking them their business.
We live well out in the sticks, away from the main road .. a lot of privacy, but we're pretty much on our own. My wife, who is from England, took to the property and the Texas way of life with guns like a duck to water.
England “finest hour” was a long time ago in a nation that no longer exists.
From the rest of the article, it sounds like she was lucky they didn't accidentally drop it on themselves while lifting it -- she could have been in serious trouble, letting them pick up her shed like that. :-)
There was an incident in Minnesota where a bugler fell through a skylight and landed on a kitchen table. Got hurt real bad and sued the homeowner and won. There was an actual mention of the incident in the move “Liar Liar”. The guy got around 8k but did go to jail.
At my house, the biggest danger for burglars is falling onto some bullets.
Just leave the bloody shed open for the burglars. After all, they have a right to just waltz right in and take what is rightfully theirs. The shed owner is obviously an oppressor and is eeeevvvviiiillll and the burglar is oppressed and should be able to take whatever he wants.
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The insanity reigns supreme in the UK. What a disgrace of a country for decent people to reside. I have a very bad feeling about the upcoming Olympics.
Lunacy reigns in a once great nation.