"reasonable force"

enniscorthy

any idea if throwing a saucepan full of boiling hot wax directly into the face of a threatening intruder to your home / business would come under "reasonable force"

mikemac1

If you kill them outside the house then drag them upstairs and leave them in your bedroom

It'll look better on the garda report

MickySticks

Trouble in paradise?

TanG411

Why would one have a saucepan full of wax? Wouldn't oil be tastier?

44leto

To right, but the next time use the chip pan oil boils at a higher temperature.

Nodin

enniscorthy wrote: »

any idea if throwing a saucepan full of boiling hot wax directly into the face of a threatening intruder to your home / business would come under "reasonable force"

....somebody in your gaff needs to consider laser treatment.

enniscorthy

sorry mate its specifically wax that relates to my latest business venture hehehe just wondering

Nodin

enniscorthy wrote: »

sorry mate its specifically wax that relates to my latest business venture hehehe just wondering

Luring strangers into your museum and turning them into oddly realistic waxworks?

TanG411

I hope the wax made a cast of the intruders face so you'll know what they look like.

I think it's reasonable.

Teyla Emmagan

And why do you need to know this?

This all sounds very premeditated OP.

Fromthetrees

...you'll be grand...

...as Ward escaped he shot him again and "beat him like a badger"...

...not guilty...http://www.independent.ie/multimedia/archive/00633/2007_Padraig-Nally__633502t.jpg

krudler

enniscorthy uses super hot wax

its super effective!

TheZohanS

enniscorthy wrote: »

sorry mate its specifically wax that relates to my latest business venture hehehe just wondering

hehehehhohohohohoheheh

derfderf

Nodin wrote: »

Luring strangers into your museum and turning them into oddly realistic waxworks?

He pretty much has to lure harrison ford in if that what he's doing.

krudler

enniscorthy uses super hot wax

its super effective!

Nodin

Fromthetrees wrote: »

...you'll be grand...

...as Ward escaped he shot him again and "beat him like a badger"...

...not guilty...http://www.independent.ie/multimedia/archive/00633/2007_Padraig-Nally__633502t.jpg

I'd ask just how one might beat a badger, but we know where that would lead.....

token101

Nodin wrote: »

I'd ask just how one might beat a badger, but we know where that would lead.....

Aggressively. They are vicious and aim for the testicles according to my farmer landlord.

Nodin

I remember bein told they were ferocious bastards when cornered. One got a taste for a relations chickens down in Donegal when I was a lad, and yer man waited out the night for him. Shot him, though, as oppossed to challening him to fisticuffs.

ejmaztec

Veet might be better.

darrcow

forget hot wax. i think boiling hot oil would be better plenty of blisters and scarred for life. nearly forgot then blast them with p1ss

token101

Nodin wrote: »

I remember bein told they were ferocious bastards when cornered. One got a taste for a relations chickens down in Donegal when I was a lad, and yer man waited out the night for him. Shot him, though, as oppossed to challening him to fisticuffs.

He made a wise choice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c81bcjyfn6U

Unregistered.

I think it depends on whether or not you had the wax boiling before or after they had entered the house!

Gunmonkey

ThinksAmoral wrote: »

Why would one have a saucepan full of wax? Wouldn't oil be tastier?

Yeah but then theres the temptation to make chips in the oil, which the burglar would then steal too. Then you have no chips alongside being robbed.

mawk

what temperature does wax boil at?

molten wax is probably reasonable, boiling wax is probably not.

probably a legal difference there. like panicking and throwing a mug of tea at someone versus luring them into an industrial microwave

Pacifist Pigeon

From my subjective vantage point, genocide against all black birds constitutes reasonable force in response to a single black bird that raids my patch.

goose2005

What if you just happen to trip them and they fall into a tank of carbonite?

kirving

Ordinary water has a higher specific heat than oil, so contains more energy per litre at a given temperature, meaning burns would be worse. It would be less likely to stick though.

Overheal

enniscorthy wrote: »

any idea if throwing a saucepan full of boiling hot wax directly into the face of a threatening intruder to your home / business would come under "reasonable force"

When are you going to have time to do that?

Intruder bursts into home, "STOP, while I bring the wax to a boil!"

Biggins

enniscorthy wrote: »

any idea if throwing a saucepan full of boiling hot wax directly into the face of a threatening intruder to your home / business would come under "reasonable force"

Question!
What would you be doing with a a saucepan full of boiling hot wax anyway?

In order to throw one, you have to have been preparing it previously.
If you were making something in the near future with it, fair enough - but if you were heating wax just in preparation for use as a weapon, NO, it would not be considered reasonable force.
In fact the law might argue that it shows 'prepared intention to harm' and at the very least you could be charged with a variety of charges including Attempted Manslaughter in the first or second degree (if the victim lives!).