Don’t put wire on your windows – it might hurt burglars!

[JJVP]

So is the order given residents of Surrey and Kent villages in the UK by the local cops.

"A police source added: 'Homemade devices can cause injury and there have been cases where criminals have sued for injuries they have suffered while committing a criminal act."



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[quidni]

It really has me puzzled,
And makes me wonder why
We label this thing "common" sense
When it's in such short supply?

[sugar land dave]

I could understand if they were talking about an aggressive measure such as placing bear-traps on the floor or rigging a shotgun with a tripwire, but chicken-wire on windows?

[MegaWatt]

One more example of why Americans are citizens and the Brits are subjects

[Texas Dan Mosby]

If your ungracious and condescending attitude is honestly typical of all Americans then I'd really rather not be one, thank you.

Condescension and a lack of grace is common in every region and culture I have ever visited, including the U.K..

Surely you have thicker skin, and are familiar with Pikeys, Jocks, Scousers, Brummies, Geordies, Mancs, Chavs, Frogs, and of course.....Septics.

You think he is being "condescending and ungracious" referring to the Brits? You should here us southern boys talk about yankees, or worse yet....CALIFORNIANS!

[RPB]

Along different lines ...

Problem:
Texas faces shortage of lethal injection drugs
http://www.smudailycampus.com/news/poli ... 2011214153" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Texas has been left with only enough to carry out two lethal injections scheduled for the end of this month.
Texas' shortage comes as a result of Hospira, the only American producer of sodium thiopental, which announced that it would no longer produce the drug

-------------------
Solution:
GIT A ROPE.
($125,000 consultation fee not included)
(Not applicable in California, where the rope either may contain chemicals found to cause cancer, or they smoke the ropes prior to testing)

[MasterOfNone]

I suppose next they'll determine that having glass in your windows is even more dangerous to criminals, and residents will be ordered to remove all windows glass. But a good lock, as recommended by the local police, could injure a burglar when he tries to break through a door.
The only solution is to just leave doors open and let the burglars have their way, for the good of society.

[VMI77]

I suppose next they'll determine that having glass in your windows is even more dangerous to criminals, and residents will be ordered to remove all windows glass. But a good lock, as recommended by the local police, could injure a burglar when he tries to break through a door.
The only solution is to just leave doors open and let the burglars have their way, for the good of society.

You may think you're being sarcastic and hyperbolic but I think you're much closer to the truth than you are to satire. There are a lot of people out there who really are that nutty. There are people out there who actually say that you shouldn't defend your life against criminals because that just creates more violence. One reason I don't find the OP funny is because it is exactly the mentality the liberal big government nanny state supporters want to impose here --and they've already had some modest success at it in places like New Jersey, San Francisco, NYC, and Maryland.

[MasterOfNone]

Consider this scary part of the issue, applying it to Texas law:

PC §9.44. USE OF DEVICE TO PROTECT PROPERTY. The justification afforded by Sections 9.41 and 9.43 applies to the use of a device to protect land or tangible, movable property if:
(1) the device is not designed to cause, or known by the actor to create a substantial risk of causing, death or serious bodily injury; and
(2) use of the device is reasonable under all the circumstances as the actor reasonably believes them to be when he installs the device.

Once the police issue a warning that burglars are being injured by the wire, is the wire now "known by the actor to create a substantial risk of causing" serious bodily injury (disfigurement or loss of the use of a cut hand)?

[PUCKER]

Just the other day I was thinking about criminals getting injured (due to barb wire, glass, things mentioned on this thread, etc) while "on the job" and wondered when OSHA was going to step in?? I say that in jest but also with anxiety....

[Teamless]

My wife and I were in Acapulco in October.
This picture shows how they protect their property from people entering wrongly.


If you cannot tell, they pour concrete, place glass in it, so as it hardens the glass gets bonded to it.
Sure, you could go through, try to break it all, but there will always be shards of it sticking up.

[RPB]

So, buy replacement windows now, while the energy star rebate is on? Be sure they are "safety glass"

(Guess I better transplant the cactus, pyracantha thorn bush (Firethorns), and roses I have under my windows too and move them to a safer area)

In older houses we probably should be sure all old lead paint was removed around windows too .... just in case of criminals getting "lead poisoning".

[JJVP]

In older houses we probably should be sure all old lead paint was removed around windows too .... just in case of criminals getting "lead poisoning".

If they break through a window into my house, the BG will most likely end up with " lead poisoning", but not from the paint.

[AJ80]

So I guess gun turrets that shoot at anything that moves are out of the question...