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**RG3rGWcA** · 06-14-2007, 02:57 PM

Amazingly, that is also the case here in the UK. Common Law states that you can use 'appropriate' force if you feel that your (or someone else's) life is in danger. However, it is all about being able to justify your actions.

There was a farmer here who got prosecuted sucessfully when he was burgled by a bunch of youths and he shot one of them. The only problem was that the kid was fleeing and got shot in the back, so the murdering farmer's 'self-defence' case held no water.

Don't think it helped that he had been saying in the pub some nights before that he was sick of being burgled and would kill the next f*****r who came into his house.

Moral: if you are going to kill anyone do not tell the whole pub about it.

06-14-2007, 02:57 PM	#10
RG3rGWcA Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 499 Senior Member	Amazingly, that is also the case here in the UK. Common Law states that you can use 'appropriate' force if you feel that your (or someone else's) life is in danger. However, it is all about being able to justify your actions. There was a farmer here who got prosecuted sucessfully when he was burgled by a bunch of youths and he shot one of them. The only problem was that the kid was fleeing and got shot in the back, so the murdering farmer's 'self-defence' case held no water. Don't think it helped that he had been saying in the pub some nights before that he was sick of being burgled and would kill the next f*****r who came into his house. Moral: if you are going to kill anyone do not tell the whole pub about it.
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