The Correct Way To Deal With Thieving Low Lives?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39413376
I don't often praise our US friends but credit where it's due.

[Samjenko]

^Aww, shame your vid didn't work, grasshopper. I'd love to have seen you duffing the bully up.

[andy-hughes]

I cannot gloat at the deaths of teenagers, not matter what the circumstances.

That is not the same as saying that I don't understand why the occupant acted as he did - but it's nothing to jump up and down and cheer about.

[Zacs-Master]

Yes Andy, quite right. One has to consider how we, as society, have let these young people down and set about rectifying it don't we.


Meh.

[kvalidir]

Whilst I can understand why they got shot, and I'm not even particularly condemning the person who shot them- they must've been terrified to find intruders in their house in a place where guns are so prevalent- have some of you listened to yourselves whooping with glee about three teenagers being killed? It's a tragedy however you look at it, and never surely something to celebrate- they were loved by someone or worse still perhaps not. It's a sad end to a sad business but sadder is some of the joyful gallows knitting here.

[Garaman]

^^ I agree with that.

[ummmm]

I agree with that too.

And yes, I have been burgled!!

[emmie]

i have been burgled too, and it was very traumatic. I would have duffed up the blighter's if i had caught them, swinging a bag, backpack or whatever was handy.

[Jackdaw33]

Even the dumbest American knows that if he breaks into someone's house he could be facing the wrong end of a gun. They took the risk, they paid the price.

[ummmm]

Very traumatic. I was burgled by a sleeper burglar. He was in mine and the kids bedrooms while we slept. No one woke up, you'd think you'd wake but the police said most people don't.

[hereIam]

I agree with the first part of kvalidir's post, but not the second ...

[andy-hughes]

jackdaw - //Even the dumbest American knows that if he breaks into someone's house he could be facing the wrong end of a gun. //

Of course they don't.

Any burglar who thought that would not burgle a house.

The point is - burglars are, by definition, not very bright, and not minded to think ahead to the potential consequences of what they are doing - if they did, they wouldn't break into houses.

No criminal ever thinks they are going to be caught - that's just simple human nature.

[andy-hughes]

Zacs-Master - //Yes Andy, quite right. One has to consider how we, as society, have let these young people down and set about rectifying it don't we. //

Yes we do.

// Meh. //

I have no idea what that means.

[cassa333]

Its just Darwinism at its best.

They did something stupid and took themselves out of the evolutionary pot.

[andy-hughes]

cassa333 - //Its just Darwinism at its best.

They did something stupid and took themselves out of the evolutionary pot. //

It would be nice to think that as a civilised society we have moved past the notion of Darwinism - but I'll be delighted to remind you of it should a member of your family get killed crossing the road.

[Jackdaw33]

Yeah, ugly-looking mare, ain't she.

[andy-hughes]

jackdaw - //Did you clock the boat on the lass? Looks a right wrong 'un. //

Please contact any police force anywhere in the world who are waiting to pay you an eight-figure salary for your highly desirable skill - you can identify criminals by looking at their photographs.

Don't forget to post occasionally.

[Peter Pedant]

// i have been burgled too, and it was very traumatic. //

yeah it is SUCH a pain coming back to a ransacked house
Luckily they had NOT found the fambly silver but HAD been thro all the paperwork ....

I was burgled every six weeks until I got a burglar alarm installed
I think we got up to No 3 before my nerve broke....

When anyone rotated to the old WOlverhampton Royal - they were burgled within a few weeks of starting - so we know how but couldnt really do anything about it - you cant lay traps for burglars

( altho in Ireland at the time s/o managed to blow the foot off a burglar in absentia so to speak. the hardest thing he said was to remember never to go thro the front door ..... )

[Jackdaw33]

Any time, a-h, any time. My pleasure.

[ChillDoubt]

It would be nice to think that as a civilised society we have moved past the notion of Darwinism
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It would also be nice to think in a civilised society that three teenagers didn't go burgling dwellings, not on a whim but dressed as Ninjas with all the requisite accoutrements too, but hey-ho.