'Tis a shame a good, old-fashioned handshake wouldn't do.
Posted on 01/23/2008 7:19:19 PM PST by PotatoHeadMick
Then I come out of my fantasy and I've missed half of what was in the article. ;^)
Perhaps we could give them about 20 tatoos of Muhommad all over thier body and them drop them off in downtown Tehran...
'Tis a shame a good, old-fashioned handshake wouldn't do.
Why didn't he just shoot and kill them?
Right. Especially when you know they will never get the death penalty, wouldn't you want to kill the animals who held a knife to your daughter's throat? How could you leave such vermin alive?
Fake gun.
Is a ‘knuckle duster’ brass knuckles? Ouch!
Outnumbered 3 to 1 in a surprise attack by armed villains, the man fights back and wins.
Yet you criticize him.
Methinks you aren’t the sharpest tack in the box.
Not criticizing. Wasn't even responding to you. I've been in a similar but much less violent situation. I wished I had a gun. Perp went to jail, but later hurt someone else. I always felt if I had killed him then, other victims would have been spared his evil. The justice system routinely fails when dealing with violent criminals. They never rehabilitate, they only get worse.
Must be right. Lots of them in Britain.
I've read the replies above stating that the gun was fake. However, if the gun had been real, and the homeowner had used it to kill his assailant, there is a good chance that he would have been charged with murder under British law. A few years ago a British farmer named Tony Martin was convicted of attempted murder for shooting a burglar who had broken into his home(for the 2nd or 3rd time). He had been harassed by a gang of thugs for months, but when he defended his property, he went to prison. Britain has an astronomically high burglary rate, precisely because the robbers know that their victims are unarmed. Fair play to this man for defending himself!
Britain has an astronomically high burglary rate, precisely because the robbers know that their victims are unarmed. Fair play to this man for defending himself!.........
you mean the peasants can kill each other, but you just gotta know the fair princes and royals have men with GUNS to defend them....cause it’s just “different” for them, don’t you know.
Pathetic sheep island. Chances of going back to England ....zero. Most of the Irish are kick ass and can flat out have fun. Most of the really fun people from Great Britain I’ve met have been in Spain.
As far as self defense... that guy is a stud. 3 on 1 is a bad situation without a weapon. I think I’d keep a sword or bat around if I wasn’t able to keep a weapon. The last thing you want to use in a fight is your hands. I hope the other two decide that “Suicide is painless”.
The story says it was a fake gun.
It is literal. Prisoners can just walk out. ...of course, by doing so they get tossed in a real prison when caught. Sorta the low-tech equivalent of house arrest via monitoring device (yeah he can run off, but we’ll know when he does and toss him in a cage when we catch him).
Thanks for the clarification.
Everytime that I read about social dysfunction in England, I am remined of the movie “A Clockwork Orange”. The film was decades ahead of its time and much closer to the reality there now.
Maybe if they had midnight basketball. . .
The gun wasn't real.
same herein the the good ole USA. I volunteer at the local min/med security county/state lock up.
the min security side remeinds me more of an open college dorm than a correctional facility.most have work duty, many of which are off grounds and un monitored, with the prisoner returning daily on their own. only thing stopping them from walking away is an escape charge and loss of easy livin environment [as far as jails go]...
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