Just had the police round......

[craft1948]

Apparently an old lady in the next street was burgled yesterday. (I do live in an elderly community as there are a lot of bungalows in the immediate area)
A man walked straight into her house, shoved a pillow-case over her head, tied her up and robbed her.
It's obviously silly that she had left her door unlocked but my question is......if this happened to me and I knocked seven shades of sh!t out of him with a claw hammer would I be in trouble?
I tried not to laugh as the policeman said the burglar would have been noticeable as he was apparently wearing sun glasses..........so was the policeman.......

[Barmaid]

True Jake - at which point the prosecution would have no problem whatsoever in proving that it was not self defence.

Sqad that was not exactly the point I was trying to make. And its impossible to generalise by and large it is correct. Self defence will turn on the individual circumstances. For instance if an attacker broke in here and I was alone with the children and I delivered a good old thwack to the head and he retreats but heads towards one of the kids, I would be justified in pre-emptively delivering another blow with my trusty rolling pin. However, if he were legging it out of the door and I still had a go, I would rightly be bang to rights.

[Sqad]

Barmaid.......i love it when you talk dirty.

Remember crisp white shirt, gown, wig AND............what is she wearing underneath.

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