I hate thieves! Hope they OD! (UPDATED!)

sorry man..this sux..I had this happen a few yrs ago they took what they wanted and trashed the inside of the car..cops finger printed the car and were sure nothing would become of it..almost a yr later I find out they found them,as they got caught busting into someone else s car..needles to say my stuff was long gone,but they got theirs...

 

Sorry to hear Magnus

 

I agree completely...... no laser sights on the gun but still.............
don't mess with my house!!

 

Even though I've shot guns here and there when hunting, I still can't really get around killing somebody... I was thinking about getting a tranquilizer gun... with something that would bring down an elephant... can that be done? Is it legal?
I think it would be fun to catch the sucker half way inside the car and aim straight at his ass, watch him freak out and fall 2 steps later

 

lol.. No it's not legal, but neither is breaking into someone's car.. Oh, what a beating they would get. I was told a lot time ago from a police chief. If someone breaks into your house, you shoot to kill. A dead man tells no lies. Do a search on cases that someone broke into someone's house & they got hurt. They turned around an sued the home owner & WON!!!

 

I don't know of any US court that would let that happen. There's usually a "presumption of clean hands", if you will, for the plaintiff in any case. This means that if you're suing someone, you can't be doing something illegal to begin with that got you in the situation you're suing over. For example, the justice system isn't going to help you recuperate damages the guy who shot you if he shot you during a drug deal.

I have googled this before, and everything I've seen has been either from another country while the homeowner shot the burglar (far stretch from "fell on a knife") or unsupported "friend-of-friend" type stuff with very little detail.

 

That sucks...
My dad's worker from the restaurant got robbed just outside the restaurant when he went to take out the trash.
it was two guys, one with a handgun and the other with a rock ( wierd).. they stole 300 bucks from him.
then we got robbed twice in the restaurant when we werent there, they broke the glass window and broke the cash register... we assume they were the same B&@#s that did it.

 

Holy crow man! That really sucks! I hate a thief too. I'm sorry to hear of this and know exactly what you are feeling. It was said in another post but I'll repeat it here.... Karma is a real biatch and they may be laughing now but sooner than we all think something very bad is in store for them. Maybe an OD..?? maybe just a bored cop who happens to travel a block or two off his/her regular beat for no particular reason. What ever it is they will get theirs mi amigo!

 

Really?? Ok, then check out this case.. Know of more but really tired.

The burglar and the skylight: another debunking that isn’t

Even on most cases the bugular sues, but doesn't win. The homeowner has to go through all the BS & lawyer fees to protect themselves is a joke.

 

This isn't your average case.

"Bodine sued for $8 million (in 1984 dollars, about $16 million today) and settled for the nuisance sum of $260,000 plus $1200/month for life"

A settlement essentially means the law doesn't apply as a jury would rule on the case. The most bogus claim can be filed and settled. That's not my main point, but it should be taken into consideration.

This particular case wasn't decided based on the actions of both parties. It was based on gross negligence by the school district:

"Witnesses interviewed by the police explained that the skylight windows had been painted over when the roof was being painted and that it was now “nearly impossible to determine what was roof” and what was skylight."

9 months before Bodine was injured while trying to steal the skylight, another student had died falling through another skylight in the same district.

"The police eventually determined that the victim in the Shasta High incident was 19-year-old Paul Schuur. On the evening of graduation, Paul and his friends had been drinking and decided to go for a swim at the Shasta High pool before attending the graduation ceremony. According to Zrick, people regularly climbed over the roof to use the pool, and the barbed wire that was designed to prevent roof access had been cut two months before the accident."

Obviously not a case of the (first) kid doing something illegal. This case really hinges on the school district having foreknowledge that the roof was grossly unsafe, then not doing anything about it:

"Nonetheless, the defendants filed a motion for summary judgment arguing that that the plaintiff’s status as a trespasser barred recovery as a matter of law. On June 6, 1983, Judge Redmon denied the motion for summary judgment, holding that the issue of whether the skylight was a dangerous, defective, and hazardous condition on public property was a question of fact for the jury."

This case is a far cry from someone falling through a skylight that hasn't been painted over.

Quotes are all from the Word document linked in your article, except the first.