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.

[Peter Pedant]

// Please contact any police force anywhere in the world ..... - you can identify criminals by looking at their photographs. //

yeah what is wrong with that ? it is only eighty years out of date - but there was a widespread belief in late Victorian times that the criminal classes could be identified by their mugshots.
Just yesterday if you are my age - and Jesus time moves slowly

and in all gas and gaiters - in the soap episode 1970
s/o says of the child murderer - "I think the cook has done it - his eyes are too close together" -
it became a stock phrase at college
" he looks like a child murderer - his eyes are too close together!"

[Jackdaw33]

...and how right they were, PP.

[paddywak]

10-11 years ago we had a spell were just about every house on the estate was burgled over a period of a couple of months.We had a visit from the law to see why our particular little bit of the estate had had no trouble he never even came in, he just stood at the end off the drive and saw Max,(my avatar),my neighbours dogs Murphy a very large Rotty, Amber a Rhodesian Ridgeback and another Max who was very large GSD/something cross all four never barked just watched every move he made. The only comment he made was " Now we know were to look if any of the local low lifes go missing"

[andy-hughes]

Peter Pedant - //yeah what is wrong with that ? it is only eighty years out of date - but there was a widespread belief in late Victorian times that the criminal classes could be identified by their mugshots. //

That would be the era when we thought putting children up chimneys was acceptable as well.

I think we have moved on a little since then - don't you?

[DTCwordfan]

always chop their wrists off, as they do in Saudi....not too many people walking around with only one hand.

[andy-hughes]

I think you mean chop hands of DT - it's tricky to isolate the wrist!!

[Samjenko]

I've seen a few of those real life crime stories from America where householders were hailed as heroes for killing intruders.
Turned out they'd lured perfectly innocent people to their house and murdered them for various reasons.

Interesting case.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/invitation-to-a-murder-05-09-2009/