What the F*ck??

[AllenLowe]

that's ok, as Weizen doesn't have any class -

[andybleaden]

In cases in which burglers have been killed by homeowners, after they have left the house, by the homeowner, police often say that they should drag him back in the house, before calling 911. I don't know if they are serious. However, it is true that if the intruder is killed in your house, nothing will happen to you. So, who knows?

Not in Britain. There's a doctrine about "reasonable force" over here, which generally doesn't include killing someone, unless you can show that your own life really depended on it.

There have been a few celebrated cases here in which even wounding a burglar with a gun has led to prosecution and guilty verdicts.

Nobody agrees with this. However, the implication of the alternative is that people start arming themselves and this seems like the thin end of the wedge in creating a society like the US. So, in this case, I think I side with the narrow interpretation of what a person can be allowed to do.

MG

and make sure self defence is self defence not shoot em in the back when they turn their back! which I believe was what the chappie in question did in the UK

Back to the US

Not sure how I would respond to a blokey comig at me with a gun and I think he should have had an exhaust pipe inserted to remind everybody where he got caught!

As for the law about dragging em back in your house , it reminds me of when I used to work with people in hostels years ago and the paperwork when the committed suicide was that bad a colleague murmured about dragging out on the street before ringing the police. Also reminds me of the story (probably myth) of the Transport policearguing that people who through themselves from train bridges were only dead when they hit the ground...hence it was a normal police matter not Transport Police who were only interested if they died on the train or tracks