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Would you kill an intruder if you were guaranteed to get away scot free?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭snowflaker


    Erik Shin wrote: »
    And that's just the twin girls...you should see his sons ffs​!

    How many people live in this apartment that sleeps 3!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Beyondgone


    Erik Shin wrote: »
    And that's just the twin girls...you should see his sons ffs​!

    Whose sons? :confused: You leave my big hairy daughters alone. You're bullying us. Ya big bully.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭Erik Shin


    snowflaker wrote: »
    How many people like in this apartment that sleeps 3!

    Think it's beyondgone-boy Walton's place.... probably 23 of them


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    Erik Shin wrote: »
    Must have been a turd byrgler

    Probably.

    Those Cunce will rob any oul Sh1te

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Beyondgone


    This has descended into the gicker. It started out so well too. These sort of threads always bring out the worst in people. I blame the geese.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭Erik Shin


    Tell ya what.....any career burglar reading this thread is definitely taking tonight off!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 301 ✭✭Eimee90


    Breaking and Entry is one of the cruellest things criminals can do to people. it can mentally break people and leave them terrified in their own homes. I come from a rural area and elderly people are terrified of this happening to them. They are scumbags of the highest order, I'd have no interest in their wellbeing to be perfectly honest.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,221 ✭✭✭pablo128


    Erik Shin wrote: »
    Tell ya what.....any career burglar reading this thread is definitely taking tonight off!!

    Nope,I'd say they are terrorising old people who haven't the strength to fight back. Some of the carry on is sickening, tying old people to their kitchen chair and beating lumps out of them for their pension money.

    Utter scum.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Mysterypunter


    No. I would kill a bully boy or a scumbag, even if I wasn't going to get away, lots of loudmouth idiot's about, you can't take on the world. I would serve a hundred years if I needed to kill someone. Probably never happen though


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    elsa21 wrote: »
    Breaking and Entry is one of the cruellest things criminals can do to people. it can mentally break people and leave them terrified in their own homes. I come from a rural area and elderly people are terrified of this happening to them. They are scumbags of the highest order, I'd have no interest in their wellbeing to be perfectly honest.

    It sure is. Scum of the earth are the cnuts that do that, and sympathy is the last thing I'd have for them. But until you've actually taken someone's life yourself you'll never know how ****ty that feels. No matter who they are.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Beyondgone


    No. I would kill a bully boy or a scumbag, even if I wasn't going to get away, lots of loudmouth idiot's about, you can't take on the world. I would serve a hundred years if I needed to kill someone. Probably never happen though

    Oddly, I believe you.

    walks away slowly..


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    My grandmother always believed gurriers needed a "dawk". A bit like this. :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 296 ✭✭Noodles81


    Apart from guffawing with laughter at some of the posts...(who'd have thought such a thread would be so entertaining!) the best point I heard is the pitch fork under the bed. I'm actually going to use that...such a good idea.

    About the morality of killing, you would be doing it out of fear, not like a planned thing. The fact that you know this and were protecting your family/ dog etc would salve the conscience I'd imagine.


  • Registered Users Posts: 37,295 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    If for the sake of argument you had a choice between killing them and getting away with it or restraining them and handing them over to the cops, what would you do?
    If the choice is between killing them, and allowing them to try again, my answer is; what intruder, officer?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭jackofalltrades


    It sure is. Scum of the earth are the cnuts that do that, and sympathy is the last thing I'd have for them.
    But until you've actually taken someone's life yourself you'll never know how ****ty that feels. No matter who they are.
    Are you speaking from experience?

    Yes killing someone probably isn't going to make you feel great.
    But you're probably not going to feel that great after having your house broken into.
    Or after you've been beaten up, tortured or raped.
    You''ll probably feel doubly bad if any of the above happens to your loved ones.
    There's no happy ending, so you may as well pick the one that leads to the best outcome for you and your loved ones.

    We're talking hardened criminals, in groups with tools/weapons.
    If you're in a confrontation it's because they haven't left and aren't bothered by a fight.
    Presuming you can't retreat it's you or them.
    Strike hard and fast, because they're not going to miss any sleep kicking your head in.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    I've chased a would-be burglar with a golf club once. Truth be told I only wanted to frighten the shit out of him and probably wouldn't have hit him with the club unless I felt threatened. Judging by the speed of his escape he was pretty scared. If I had a gun I'd much rather frighten someone off with a couple of badly aimed shots than actually use it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    I wouldnt actively try to kill them but if they died in the process of me chasing them out then so be it


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,325 ✭✭✭Bandana boy


    I've chased a would-be burglar with a golf club once. Truth be told I only wanted to frighten the shit out of him and probably wouldn't have hit him with the club unless I felt threatened. Judging by the speed of his escape he was pretty scared. If I had a gun I'd much rather frighten someone off with a couple of badly aimed shots than actually use it.

    When you fire a gun the bullet has go somewhere , If your going to fire a gun , center mass of the target . You will get over that quicker than finding your stray bullet hit an innocent person.


  • Registered Users Posts: 627 ✭✭✭JaCrispy


    RayM wrote: »
    The average intruder doesn't want to kill you; they just want your stuff.

    So ask the intruder if they are the "average intruder" before you decide of you want to kill them?


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    My grandmother always believed gurriers needed a "dawk". A bit like this. :)

    Thanks so much for that. You might have noted it wasn't safe for work.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    If you break into someones house - you deserve whatever you get as far as I'm concerned. I catch someone in my house - god fúcking help them, I will go full on medieval on them!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    Naked with a horn , changes the whole dynamic of the situation

    Would you beat them to death with your horn?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 451 ✭✭hurler32


    Its only a matter of time before someone shots a burglar in Rural Ireland....most areas at breaking point ...


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    hurler32 wrote: »
    Its only a matter of time before someone shots a burglar in Rural Ireland....most areas at breaking point ...

    That time was 12 odd years ago.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,263 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    Mostly keyboard warriors, they would proably **** themselfvs if their home was really broken into....myself included :D

    Being scared doesn't prevent someone from acting. I say this as a veteran of more than one firefight.

    Fiancee woke me up (Actually, thumped me up, I'm a heavy sleeper) two nights ago, convinced someone was in the house. You'd better believe I was nervous as I checked things out. But neither was I going to let that stop me using my pistol.
    I think the question is fundamentally flawed. If you knew you were going to get away scot free then there would be some level of premeditation involved. When someone kills someone in self-defense its nearly always a reactionary action. You don't stop and think "I'll get away with it" before blowing someone away. Self-defense cases hinge on the homeowner being so scared that they don't consider their actions before doing them.

    Very true.
    When you fire a gun the bullet has go somewhere , If your going to fire a gun , center mass of the target . You will get over that quicker than finding your stray bullet hit an innocent person.

    Also a valid point. For this reason, not only are warning shots not recommended in the US, they are often explicitly prohibited, particularly to the authorities. Discharge of a firearm is use of lethal force: That force may not be applied to direction you had intended, so the situation had better merit pulling the trigger. If it merits pulling the trigger, it merits aiming center mass.

    This guy was in the news last month.
    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/no-charges-against-oklahoma-man-who-killed-3-intruders/

    The getaway driver has been charged with the murder of the three lads who broke in. The grandfather of one of the deceased said it was unfair.

    http://ktul.com/news/local/family-member-of-teen-burglary-suspect-killed-in-wagoner-county-break-in-speaks-out

    After all, the three guys only had knuckle dusters and knives. The resident had an AR-15.

    I get he's distraught, but the statement is idiotic.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,539 ✭✭✭The Specialist


    Love the reaction of some pussies here doubting that people would actually murder someone to protect their family "cos internet". Exactly the type of weak spined ***** who would probably hide under the covers while their wife goes to check on the noise.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    So what would be your preferred order of preparation in the event the intruder makes an entrance?

    I read that wrong for a second


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Beyondgone


    Love the reaction of some pussies here doubting that people would actually murder someone to protect their family "cos internet". Exactly the type of weak spined ***** who would probably hide under the covers while their wife goes to check on the noise.

    Meh, I'm not doubting the will or want to kill 'em, I'm just a bit dubious about the "able to". Everyone says "I'd kill to protect my family" - it's kinda a given. Being strong/fast enough/awake enough/not tripping over your clothes/shoes/the cat/the wife on your way to "go gettem" is the issue.. then there's the whole "Oh look, it isn't the one ickle, sickly burglar, it's four of them...and they're quite hardy bucks as well.." factor.

    Me personally, I'd give it a good lash, but I'm pushing on a bit now and am under Nooo illusions that much as I might still be Rambos best mate and sparring partner in my own mind, chances are 50:50 I'm gonna get seven-shades of shyte kicked out of me while attempting to terminate "The lads" using some household crap I manage to pick up en-route.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,539 ✭✭✭The Specialist


    Beyondgone wrote: »
    Meh, I'm not doubting the will or want to kill 'em, I'm just a bit dubious about the "able to". Everyone says "I'd kill to protect my family" - it's kinda a given. Being strong/fast enough/awake enough/not tripping over your clothes/shoes/the cat/the wife on your way to "go gettem" is the issue.. then there's the whole "Oh look, it isn't the one ickle, sickly burglar, it's four of them...and they're quite hardy bucks as well.." factor.

    Me personally, I'd give it a good lash, but I'm pushing on a bit now and am under Nooo illusions that much as I might still be Rambos best mate and sparring partner in my own mind, chances are 50:50 I'm gonna get seven-shades of shyte kicked out of me while attempting to terminate "The lads" using some household crap I manage to pick up en-route.

    That is why you should keep something capable of inflicting serious harm close to the bed (personally have a 12 inch blade to hand). I don't give a **** if it's 4 burly fellas in the house, 2 or 3 of them are getting it straight in to the heart.


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