Courts Allow Burglar’s Crime Spree, Jail Victims

Lol. Intent was thrown out the door due to his injuries.

Does that mean that if we get assaulted after holding a gun to the president we can get off Scott free?

It shows an over-reliance on law and not enough on brains. I think the public can agree that he should be punished. Just think: He got unlucky this time...

This is one loop hole that everyone can exploit in Britain. Unless they amend their loony toons law soon, I'm going there to rob the Bank of England, get brain damage to escape the courts then sue the Bank of England for not having a wet floor sign that caused my to slip while I was robbing them.

Actually, of robbing, raping or killing the only thing the robber did was robbing, which is what turns the case on its head. And it'd be the same in the US.

"self-defense allows a person attacked to use reasonable force in their own defense and the defense of others". That's part of common law.

If there's a robber, you scare him away or possibly capture him, but unless he threatened you physically you're not allowed to harm him. And if he does threaten you your response is to be measured.

So here the burglary victims got arrested and put on trial because they almost beat to death a guy who, as far as they know, would have just fled without harming them. Just because he tried to rob them it doesn't entitle them to break his bones.

Epic FAIL!!!

It's funny how Europeans have cast America as a "stupid nation of brutes", while I can't remember a case in the US of A where a man robbing was assaulted and victims were charged. Even worse, the man continues his crime spree fresh out of the hospital and "brainy" UK can't hold the man as criminally insane due to brain damage, but instead continue to allow the man to rob or even possibly kill at will because he isn't FIT to stand trial!!! UK should look at their own system before they critisize us. Complete hillarity!!!

"I can't remember a case in the US of A where a man robbing was assaulted and victims were charged"

Hoho. Then you need to look up Keira Earhart.

The robber had a knife.
Though not a gun, I'd still make sure he is NO threat whatsoever to my family, and I would disable so the police can get him.

That sucker should rob, rape and kill the judges that released him...

THAT'd teach them...

But serously... does that mean that brits can only defend themselves by killing the assailant? Because MAN... that loophole WILL be exploited by criminals.

Ndeed.

I need to get the fuck out of this country!

Oh come on. The Brits are the ones that always do things to run counter to the rest of Europe, and they even refer to other Europeans as 'continentals'.
Its a case of Anglo-saxon fail, same as US.

^ This anon knows his stuff

This isn't Europe vs. USA, it's parental UK vs. USA. As to be expected of the nation that spawned the EN scandals.

@06:44 23/12/2009

I'd say a knife-wielding gang and threatening to kill the family if they resisted counts as threatening harm, if you ask me.

Keira Earhart
You mean the case where a guy who saw someone robbing his home as he was returning found the robber unarmed hours latter and shot him and tossed him in a ditch. Hoho use your fucking brain before you cite an example.

you moron. There a plenty of idiotic court decisions everywhere. I believe devilmore' point was that this type travesty is not unique.

im pretty sure that wasnt devilmores intent. otherwise he wouldnt have singled out a country and called them stupid, in this case, the usa, in an article that has nothing to do with said country. i have to agree with anon 6:53 on this one although i dont agree with his presentation. also anon 6:53 didnt say anything about stupid court decisions being strictly limited to the uk, so im pretty sure that you missed his point too. of course, this is all just my point of view so maybe you were able to glean something from his comment that i wasnt able too. either way... meh.

You're the moron for extrapolating things that simply aren't there.

Devilmore brought up America out of the blue, and he did not talk about every country having similar issues. He made a valid point about each European country having its own set of rules, then pretty much criticized America as a gimmick comment. It had nothing, at all, to do with the article or his original point.

He might have been commenting that way because of the recent "Indecent Exposure" incident in Virginia. Of course, the comment on how each European nation has its own laws also applies to American states, unless its a federal crime.

Just because Virginia had an idiotic ruling doesn't mean that the idiocy extends to all states (just south of the Mason Dixon).

Just because Virginia had an idiotic ruling doesn't mean that the idiocy extends to all states (just south of the Mason Dixon).

oh SNAP!

Devilmore had no point. He is just a racist bigoted asshole. The idiots who upped his post are also equally assholic morons.

Wrong. Almost everyone outside of Europe hates Europe. Don't assume it's just Americans.

Fail as a whole = fail

Wait wha-...

ID that fail = epic fail

Humanity = Fail

sankaku complex = win

Yeah, and I'm sure that the guy was fixed right up on your tax dollars whilst not being a legal taxpayer himself.

>implying punjabi people carry guns
Oh Anonymous. Never change.

Robberies in most of the US are fairly uncommon. I keep a pump shotgun in the closet, no shell chambered and many I know do also. Criminals are cowards and breaking into an occupied house in most states is like playing russian roulette with at least half the chambers full.

No, they are not 'fairly uncommon'... I know quite a few people who have had their homes robbed in my area.... sometimes while THEY WERE HOME!

^ This. Being on that list pretty much fucks over any chance of you ever living a normal life ever again.

It's gonna be nigh impossible to land a job.

If he ever moves, he's going to have to go door-to-door to his neighbors introducing himself and informing them he's a registered sex offender.

I'm pretty sure there's tons of other ridiculous crap that're going to limit his freedoms. All because some angry bitch looked in his window and saw him naked and minding his own business.

Home nudity man needs to appeal the decision in that case to higher levels.... it is a KNOWN FACT OF LAW that you can do whatever you want in your home, even walk around naked, and that the person who is looking in your home is the one who is arrested if they complain about it for 'peeping'.