OT: I just caught some punk

[gregebowman]

I think the law in Florida is that they have to be physically in your house and there is a fear of imminent damage to you or your loved ones before you can pull the trigger. So if the perp is leaving the house you can't shoot him in the back, especially if his body would fall outside of your house. Also, IIRC, you can't booby-trap your house like MacCauly Culken (?) did in those movies. I think most states have laws against that, even if someone is breaking into your house with guns and knives. Which is a shame, because it would be funny to seem some of these scumbags tarred and feathered like Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern were

[narf poit chez BOOM]

In ancient isreal, you could only kill them if it was at night.

Which is logical, because medieval cities would be incredibly dark and you would have no idea if their armed and about to kill you or not. In the daytime, it had to be self-defence.

[vanbeke]

Fascinating topic -

I used to live in Detroit, with several independent pharmaceutical entrepeneurs living in the neighborhood. Our home was broken into 4 times, twice while we were home. Sometime after the first, but before the Last, we put up bars on the doors and windows. The Last time, some clown with a crowbar and a BMFH was trying to break down the door. I grabbed my shotgun and ran down to the door. My wife was screaming like crazy and the guy ran off, leaving his implements on our porch. Although it was after midnight, there were some people sitting in the garage across the street (they said they were getting their smoker set up for the church barbeque the next day).

The one good thing about all of this, is that we were not broken into after I appeared with the gun.

we left the neighborhood after my wife got preggers - wasn't where we could bring up a child - and we discovered another aspect of the life of crime. I always though that they would steal anything that wasn't nailed down, but they stole the vanity and toilet out of the batchroom (along with all of the appliances and the hot water heater) while we were waiting for the sale of the house to be completed. At least they turned off the water before doing that.

With all of that, I eventually ended up in Portland, where for the first time, my car was stolen. We got it back, but it made my new wife vary nervous.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Puke:
have you ever been hit with a stungun or pepper spray? it mainly serves to piss you off. sure it hurts, but it does not take very long to figure out that its not killing you, and after that you have an angry person with alot of adreniline on your hands.

Ya, these aren't very good for home defense unless you are prepared to hightail it out of the house and leave it to the badguy. They aren't designed to really stop someone, only slow them down long enough that you can get away.

[Atrocities]

I will just use my paint ball gun next time I catch one of these SOB's lurking around the property. I have it set to 400 ft per seoond with stain balls. When they get hit its non leathal but will hurt like a son of a gun.

[Will]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
I will just use my paint ball gun next time I catch one of these SOB's lurking around the property. I have it set to 400 ft per seoond with stain balls. When they get hit its non leathal but will hurt like a son of a gun.

And you can just tell the authorities that the offender will be covered in green paint splotches. Even better if you can find some glow-in-the-dark varieties.

[EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro]

Good idea, I still have my old Nelspot 007 and some really old and hard grease based paint! I think you can freeze paintballs too. I'd like to mark some of my neighbors "customers" but would be a little scared of return fire or maybe they'd come over and wipe scabies on me.