one good british judge

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Originally Posted by confus-ed

Two wrongs don't make a right, but even if I'd like to be all moral & correct about this, I'm hypocriotical, if I don't tell you this tale, as I did exactly what you are proposing ..



Last one that tried that with me did ! :thumbs: - caught him with my VCR under his arm, & whacked him 'good' - clean out of a first floor window ! He got 12 weeks worth of hospital treatment for his efforts, & I got charged with section 21 wounding (thats near enough attempted murder), the police couldn't have been more apologetic about having to charge me if they'd tried, one of them 'accidentally' drilled me with the 'mortal fear' line & about 30 seconds after the duty solicitor arrived he had me out & once fingerprints & statements etc were collected the CPS dropped the case.

As a postcript though on our crazy country & its 'do gooderness' with no regard to common sense - I know this particular guy is now getting invalidity allowance for his bad back :rolleyes:

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*astard ,,,the vid was only worth £20 ,,,,and my back is still knackered.

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Originally Posted by freddy

*astard ,,,the vid was only worth £20 ,,,,and my back is still knackered.

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LMAO!!

I say he got what he deserved other than still drawing a check. What crap that is. Disability or invalidity should not apply to a person that hurts themselves committing a crime. That type of person is going to abuse the system in one way or another their entire life. That's why I'm all for more of them getting killed in the process of their crimes. But it's not right for an average joe to have to live with the guilt of killing another person. Not sure how I would handle it, but I am sure that if I catch someone in my house I will find out.

So did the one blow knock him out the window or did you grab him by his neck and do it bulldog style?

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Originally Posted by confus-ed

Last one that tried that with me did ! :thumbs: - caught him with my VCR under his arm, & whacked him 'good' - clean out of a first floor window ! He got 12 weeks worth of hospital treatment for his efforts, & I got charged with section 21 wounding.

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That earns you more respect from me than 10000 tech replies ;) I take my hat off to you even though we know it's wrong don't we? :devil:

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Originally Posted by gazzak

..I take my hat off to you even though we know it's wrong don't we? :devil:

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Its a 'surprisingly raw nerve' for me .. in one way I think, yeah for sure he deserved it (& it was one hell of a punch ;) - this guy was about 50% heavier & approx 1ft taller {I'm only 'wee'} so a bit of male pride there too I suspect) - but I really don't know how I'd have felt if I'd killed him..

After he'd fallen I was confused, I couldn't work out where he'd gone (as we were 'engaging in battle' so to speak, he'd caught my other arm & yanked my jumper half over my head so I never saw where he went) - it was only when the remaining bit of glass fell from the broken window, making a big noise & missing him by inches that I worked it out & went out to him, if I hadn't cleared his airway immediately he'd certainly be dead now ..

I think many times its easy to talk a good fight, but the reality is quite different - I still don't know whether I did the right or the wrong thing - I certainly got very close to having a very bad thing on my conscience burglar or no ..

Just ask yourself how many people's lives has he ruined by burglary since you hurt him? I'd bet zero. Don't you dare feel guilty.

Ta Gary ;) .. I think I'm doomed to remain at least a little confus-ed on this one because of the 'ifs' ..

Sorry to drag this thread up but the old bill have just left the house (at 2:00AM).

For the last 4 nights we've had a series of doorbell ringing and knocking on the door . That wouldn't be so bad, if it didn't start at 12:30 at night and go on until about 1:30. Tonight, the doorbell rang at 12:30 (which I slept through) and then the door was thumped heavily at 1:30. That's when I asked Mrs Titchski to call the police.

Not sure what to do next. The police have said that they'll patrol around here from 11pm to 3am, but quite frankly, I'm so livid right now that I'm prepared to sit out in the garden tomorrow until the culprit (hopefully) comes a'knocking. Surprisingly, the cop didn't seem too bothered when I said that that was what I was planning on doing - I'm pretty sure he could read between the lines anyway. I guess I'll see what happens tomorrow night and then get camping out on Tuesday.

I tell ya, I am so flaming annoyed right now. I have to get up for work in 2 1/2 hours and I can't get back to sleep... :mad: :mad:

Sorry to hear about that - hope you catch the little buggers!

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Originally Posted by Titchski

Sorry to drag this thread up but the old bill have just left the house (at 2:00AM).

For the last 4 nights we've had a series of doorbell ringing and knocking on the door . That wouldn't be so bad, if it didn't start at 12:30 at night and go on until about 1:30. Tonight, the doorbell rang at 12:30 (which I slept through) and then the door was thumped heavily at 1:30. That's when I asked Mrs Titchski to call the police.

Not sure what to do next. The police have said that they'll patrol around here from 11pm to 3am, but quite frankly, I'm so livid right now that I'm prepared to sit out in the garden tomorrow until the culprit (hopefully) comes a'knocking. Surprisingly, the cop didn't seem too bothered when I said that that was what I was planning on doing - I'm pretty sure he could read between the lines anyway. I guess I'll see what happens tomorrow night and then get camping out on Tuesday.

I tell ya, I am so flaming annoyed right now. I have to get up for work in 2 1/2 hours and I can't get back to sleep... :mad: :mad:

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I bet it's scousers :thumbs2:

Makes ya want to wire your doorbell do deliver a bit of a "shock" to anybody who touches it during the night!

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Originally Posted by gazzak

I bet it's scousers :thumbs2:

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Especially after the result this weekend Gaz :thumbs:

Anyway it can't be scousers, I've seen no trace of a bubble perm and shell suits in the neighbourhood, the hubcaps are still on the cars and we keep our rubbish bins in the garage, purely to keep racoons (and our scally friends!) from dipping into them! :D

Enough with the cheeky Liverpudlian stereotypes... I am formulating a plan with a few neighbours this afternoon. Possibly involving a paintball gun, possibly not. Mrs Titchski is finding out today what we are reasonably allowed to do to prevent/apprehend some who is "loitering and/or prowling". That'll give us some more ideas. :thumbs:

And yes 3Finger, I thought long and hard about rewiring the doorbell to my 220v pool heater line - but then I realised it wasn't really fair on my old neighbours who are Witnesses (he's the only JW I know who brings a 6 pack round with the WatchTower :D )

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Originally Posted by 3fingersalute

Makes ya want to wire your doorbell do deliver a bit of a "shock" to anybody who touches it during the night!

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That would be premeditation.......

Have you considered fitting a secuirty camera they are fairly cheap these days and you can leave the video recorder running to see whos doing it?
As you mention Racoons it couldnt be animals could it?

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Originally Posted by Archer

That would be premeditation.......

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Sure, take all the fun out of it :D

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Originally Posted by Archer

Have you considered fitting a secuirty camera they are fairly cheap these days and you can leave the video recorder running to see whos doing it?

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Looking into getting one of those Linksys thingys with the built in Webserver - failing that, just a video camera pointed out of the window with a big S-video cable to the telly. I might even videotape the whole thing if I can get a plan formulated, that'd be fun viewing :D

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Originally Posted by Archer

As you mention Racoons it couldnt be animals could it?

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Thats actually what we first thought - we get bloody great frogs round here (not French people!) and one of them could possibly have tinkled the doorbell once - but not 4 nights in a row. Plus it would have had to have been a huge racoon to bang the door as hard as it did. I really think it's a (stupid) human thats doing it. :rolleyes:

I was thinking more something like this:
Wireless camera

http://i2.ebayimg.com/03/i/02/58/20/b0_2.JPG

On the subject of animals its not mating season is it ?

Or you could get one of these :rolleyes: :D