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neighbourhood watch what to do if ur been burgled!!
by bigphewrader
4 months ago
Last updated 4 months ago.
Ive just recently asked all the residents in my street to give me feedback (Posative/negative) towards starting a "neighbourhood watch scheme" down our street, 99.9% of them was posative & wanted to be involved, so i arranged a meeting with them all & the local "neighbourhood watch Facilitator" who used to be a inspector for the police & also a policewoman,
they all attended & various questions was spoken about & one of the residents said "He’d been burgled four times before & only once was the burgler caught & that was due to DNA left at the scene" and he asked that "If he was getting burgled what should he do" the facilitator told us that under "NO" circumstances approach the burgler just leave them & call the police"
the resident then informed the group "He had been told this before & did what he was informed to do but was ransacked & 50 mins after the burgler had gone the police turned up "No fingerprints "NO" Dna"..so no charge the burgler walked away laughing..then i asked so what if i was to approach him/them & tackle them & i was told by the facilitator that if "ANYONE" was found to of approached them the whole group would be "Diss-banded" from the neighbourhood watch scheme & we wouldnt get any funding & we would be on our own..this makes me sick it was only last week in the news that the goverment (if i am correct) informed the judges to be lenient on burglers & try "NOT" to jail them..whilst i can understand that the police & the neighbourhood watch team dont want vigilante’s i also would like them to be aware that they cant expect people to stand & watch them get robbed DO YOU AGREE IF NOT WHAT WOULD YOU DO..?
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Colombo Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
If the burglar happened to fall down the stairs and break his neck…........
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MikeCovell Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
I practice baseball in the dark, great for co-ordination. If anyone should walk in on practice, that isn’t my fault!
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cainpringle Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
but mike you wont hear the burglar over the neighbours loud music.
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MikeCovell Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
No, but I will follow the trail of false teeth.
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cainpringle Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
i sympathise mike-i have the same trouble with mice-i get bob marley blasting through the floorboards day and night and the cats breakdancing on the house roof.
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MikeCovell Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
You could always chase them away with your Peter Levy posters, or Bucks Fizz albums!
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cainpringle Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
what i cant hear you
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AR-Tony Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
If on my own and able, I would run. If cornered that would make a difference. If my family were present and in danger? No debate.
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bigphewrader Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
"MikeCovell" lol loved it!!! "No, but I will follow the trail of false teeth"
THIS MIGHT BE USEFULL FOR YOU ALL TO READ IN FACT "VERY" USEFULL!!
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Lazarus Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
Few of you seem to realise it is not illegal to be on private property, only when some damage has been caused or stolen can the authorities [allegedly] intervene. That was the main problem with the farmer who shot the two intruders. Because they had not actually stolen anything or caused any damage, he was seen to be the transgressing party. In the eyes of law, he wilfully shot 2 innocent people who happened to be in his home.
Once you witness them causing an offence however, get the baseball bat out and redecorate your living room.
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MikeCovell Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
So if someone walked down the garden path and snapped a weed, in the eye’s of the law we can have em?
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Colombo Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
So, if an escaping criminal is being chased by the police, and he crosses my garden, for instance, I am breaking the law if I trip him up and attempt to delay his progress?
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Lazarus Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
There was an interesting similar case in America recently. A neighbour witnessed two burglars entering a house next door to him and phoned the police. Naturally the police were fobbing him off until he revealed he would not let them get away and would shoot them when they left if the police did not arrive soon.
The police tried to keep him on the phone as long as they could, but the burglars left the property with goods in hand, and the chap told them he would not sit still and let them get away. From the recording you could hear him shout at the two robbers to stop, which they didn’t, and he let off two rounds.
He killed one of them and seriously injured the other. Now, the interesting point was, the one he killed he wasn’t charged with because he shot him while he was on his property. I didn’t follow the story beyond this.
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AR-Tony Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
I believe that in law you must give aid to a Constable. If you stand aside you are at fault, unless he/she orders you to abstain. It is not inconceivable that, if you involved yourself, uninvited, you could be deemed to be part of the problem and or one of the villains and be arrested. Some clarification would be most welcome.
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AR-Tony Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
If we all had fire arms and were allowed to use them at our own discretion, I wonder what would happen?
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MikeCovell Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
I get confused over the citizens arrest thing! When we can use it and how! That would come in handy!
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bernielugg Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
i know what i would do but i would never get away with-electrify my windows and doors with 15,000 volts,that would i say thay would stop em
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AR-Tony Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
And the window cleaner! Oh dear LoL!
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Roberto Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
I would just hope that the burglars didn’t take the dictionary or spell checker from the pc.
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Roberto Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
The whole judicial system favours the criminals and not the victims. One could quite easily assume that crime is organised by the government itself due to the extent of profits made by defence lawyers such as a certain aesthetically challenged labour cronies wife. Making money at the expense of the victims is morally wrong when these lawyers have the laws rewritten in their favour by friends and relatives, sometimes with the odd peerage thrown in. We have seen the removal of the Police Forces from the duties of "To Serve and Protect" and given a more bureaucratic role as form fillers and statisticians stuck firmly behind a desk instead of the streets.
The penny surely must have dropped with the governments latest idea of making knife wielding thugs visit the victims at the hospital. If I was the parent stood at a bedside vigil of my child and some toe rag was brought in, 20 police officers would not be able to save the life of the thug and I am sure that 99% of decent law abiding people would do the same.
The law must be changed to favour the victims and most definitely the laws regarding self defence must be rewritten with no boundaries or limitations because anyone confronting you with a knife can kill you in a split second.
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Colombo Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
Roberto: That was a good description of a certain person. Can’t imagine who it is.:-)
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AR-Tony Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
Roberto has stated his case well and with great simplicity, yet so many of our slumbering electorate continue to miss the obvious. Maybe they do not care enough?
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JulesJules Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
It is like recyling to save the planet. If everyone is not involved it wont make much difference.
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Bluekipper Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
I have said it many times in the past, that I will take my chance in court in front of my peers if ever I am again face to face with an intruder in my property. Once you stand by idly and let the scum have a free ride, then the battle is lost.
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Roberto Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
It looks like the only people who can ever get "Tough on Crime" will be the general population. The government cannot even "Talk the Talk" let alone "Walk the Walk". Throughout the dark days of New Labour we have seen a steady decline in our society as they destroy all of the public services with penpushers taking the place of professionals.
How long is it going to be before it we are simply left with the situation of "Every man for himself"?
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AR-Tony Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
I have always thought, when a breech of trust is involved, it is far worse a crime, to rob someone who thought you to be a friend. I took a friend of a friend into my home. He first tried to cajole, then coerce and when that failed, simply bullied my wife into giving him £1, that she could ill afford. I found him and thrashed him. The next day I was puzzled by the first friends attitude. He seemed, puzzled about something, but would not say. I later went to see him. The trouble causer had conned the first friend’s brother into lending me the whole of his weeks wages to help me pay my mortgage. I knew nothing of it. When I told them I had thrashed the oaf over the £1 they laughed! We left it there. The police became involved in the first incident, but when the oaf’s mother and grandfather both said he deserved far worse, the police walked away. Oh, it was all so very different then.
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TheEmperor Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
If I were in charge, I would employ pursuivants to deal very decisively with burglars. They would target high crime areas, and would have at least one district judge among them, and a lot of muscle. They would rent houses in high crime areas, and leave windows/doors open in order to create opportunities for these scumbags to enter. Anyone who succumbed to temptation would be arrested, condemned to death, and shot with a silenced gun on the spot. Dead offenders never reoffend, and the fact that they didn’t know the cops were there and that it was a trap is no defence in my book. The scumbags did it. Kill them.
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