This may shake things up re: castle law in the UK

Jan Doling · #41 06/25/11, 02:37 PM

If the UK police didn't put the homeowner in custody and make everything as difficult as possible, other homeowners would soon begin to defend their castles and there would be oodles of wounded or dead invading burglars on the street corners, so in order to keep order, homeonwers must be micromanaged.

naturelover · #42 06/25/11, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by big rockpile

Paumon thanks for once again reminding me why I didn't move to Canada.

big rockpile

Watch out Big Rockpile, once again your comprehension slip is showing.

They are talking about the UNITED KINGDOM, not any other country. You know, that little group of islands with all the magic castles and stone monoliths, King Arthur and the Knights of the round table, fairies, little blue Scotsmen, kings and queens - that place over on the other side of the Atlantic ocean - (you do at least know what the Atlantic ocean is, I hope.)

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naturelover · #43 06/25/11, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Bearfootfarm

Only if you come too

You bring the Missus Bear for a visit up here some time and we'll take the two of you to a real, honest to goodness barbaric Mongolian restaurant. You can sit on the ground in a circle around a brazier, slice up your own horse meat and grill it over the braziers, use your fingers to turn the meat and to pick it up to eat, and drink fermented mare's milk. And the servers grunt at you a lot and grin at you fiercely.

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Bearfootfarm · #44 06/25/11, 07:32 PM

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You can sit on the ground in a circle around a brazier, slice up your own horse meat

I was sort of hoping for Yak

**Tiempo** · #45 06/25/11, 09:08 PM

Interesting comments from the father of the dead burglar...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...fend-home.html

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Mr Bennell's father confirmed that as well as being on bail for a burglary in Staffordshire earlier this month, Bennell had served at least one prison term for a litany of previous crimes.

Garry Bennell said his son’s criminal lifestyle had caused such a rift between him and his wife, Diane, 56, a librarian, that they had broken off contact with him some years ago.

He said: “I know that things can get out of hand, but you're entitled to protect your property.”

Asked what he would do if an intruder broke into his own home, he replied: "I would hope to have the guts to protect my property, though obviously I wouldn’t want to kill anybody”.

He said his wife was devastated by Bennell’s death.

He added: “At the end of the day it's her son. Whatever happened in the past between us he was still our child."

big rockpile · #46 06/25/11, 11:19 PM

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Originally Posted by naturelover

Watch out Big Rockpile, once again your comprehension slip is showing.

They are talking about the UNITED KINGDOM, not any other country. You know, that little group of islands with all the magic castles and stone monoliths, King Arthur and the Knights of the round table, fairies, little blue Scotsmen, kings and queens - that place over on the other side of the Atlantic ocean - (you do at least know what the Atlantic ocean is, I hope.)

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Yea had a Girl over there that liked the idea she knew a real Hillbilly.Me and her did some traveling together.

Believe it or not they paid my ancestors to move here.

big rockpile