Burglars

[stu]

Re: lol perp

Originally posted by wolfeeh
stu - mate, never said it wasn't the law.. i'm not talking about law though, i'm talking about what you'd do if you confronted a burglar in your own home.

Actually, the vast majority of people would either shit it and run, or shit it and freeze. It's an unfortunate side-effect of our adrenal glands that when surprised or excited we often produce far too much of the stuff, leading to loss of muscle control. "Have a go heroes" are few and far between. Added to which it's virtually impossible to predict what you'd actually do in such a situation.

 

[wolfeeh]

me nods

however, your talking like first time occurence... second time can be very different.. and it's besides the point that my dad, who confronted the burglar at the time has army training etc etc so knows how to cope with said reaction, and shit kicking would have ensued had he caught him

 

[stu]

tempting fate...

well, I was woken up this morning at 5:10 to the sounds of my house being broken into (or more accurately, the alarm going off). And I did indeed run downstairs, grabbing my baseball bat on the way, ready to cave in the skull of the fucking skiprat pikey peasant scum - unfortunately they legged it, and drove off in their shitty 12 year old Honda Accord.

Having said that, whether I would have literally brained them or not is debatable, but rationality certainly took a back seat to the red mist, if only for a few seconds.

 

[wolfeeh]

hee hee

divine intervention mate

let's be fair tho, i don't think anyone would actually "brain" anyone they caught unless they were a big scary mofo.... if you catch someone more ur own size i think ya more likely to break their ribs, legs and arms *grin*

 

[Mellow-]

I disagree. If I had a baseball bat it wouldn't matter how big or small they were, I would hit them up side their torso. Not their head.

 

[Durzel]

Re: hee hee

Originally posted by wolfeeh
divine intervention mate

let's be fair tho, i don't think anyone would actually "brain" anyone they caught unless they were a big scary mofo.... if you catch someone more ur own size i think ya more likely to break their ribs, legs and arms *grin*

Baseball bats are a great equaliser, also - you'd be surprised what you're capable of physically when pumped up with adrenalin. Doesn't matter how big they are.

 

[wolfeeh]

yeh

well i dunno about you, i've been in maybe half a dozen fights in my life, a couple of them quite intense, but i've never felt the need to go "below the belt" as it were... yeh it's a different matter if your fighting for your life, but if say a guy is just an intruder in ur house... i'd say he's got enough to worry about with you just breaking his legs, there's no need to crack his skull open too

 

[Durzel]

You've been in half a dozen fights where the Marquess of Queensbury's rules were fully adhered to? Man you must have some pretty compassionate thugs around your neck of the woods.

Down here (and pretty much everywhere I've seen) fights are as dirty as they come. I had a fight at College and knee'd someone in the face, smashing in his nose. For his part he somehow managed to punch me very hard in the ear, which ended up being black and blue for about a month.

People get seriously beaten up around here in pub/club/bar fights, and I live in a quiet rural area.

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

Re: you what

Originally posted by wolfeeh
i'm sorry what the fuck, are you one of them fucktards that thinks people are driven by computer games to commit crimes etc etc.....? that's what your first statement implies.

Are you stupid or something?

 

[wolfeeh]

no but you seem to be.

anyway durzeh

i'm not saying it was boxing exactly, with timeout

but it's generally accepted around here that eyes, and genitals are off limits when fighting. not sure why this is but it just is.

 

[Gumbo]

Story in the local paper this morning..

Tony Martin has apparently retained a firm of solicitors on a no win no fee basis in order to sue Mr Fearon, the burglar he shot in the leg, for the emotional stress caused when he broke into Mr Martins home.