Yet another burglar shot....3 in one week!

I know it's not NYC, but remember the Minnesota Vikings incident?

And you're OK with shooting mere trespassers? I'm talking a about a mug just cutting through your yard.

I know you may not be hip to such a thing growing up in MAyberry.

We did that when I was young too, right through yards where there were signs about us getting shot. But the neighbors all had kids, all knew we cut through yards, and nobody every fired a shot. Are yards were also all multi-acre in size. It actually was a major shortcut to cut across some of those fields when we were going between houses. We also never took the short cut at 3AM because kids aren't out playing then.

I know the difference in cutting across, and trespassing. Considering the absence of people around me, anyone "merely trespassing" is going to have some explaining to do.

I guess that depends on where you live. I wouldn't do it in any of the neighborhoods I ever lived in, I'd yell at someone, call the cops on them or whatever, but I wouldn't walk out my back door shooting. I'd only shoot if someone was in the house already, trying to get in the house in a very violent way, or if they were mexican.

What, are you kidding me!? I'm from NYC.

HS kids are up pretty late on the weekends in NYC. I lived around the corner from a girlriend and I would never walk around the whole block at night. I just cut through the yard that was adjacent to mine.

Yelling "Hey you kids!!" always made us scram outta there. Why don't the southern dudes try that. Or.."Hey, get outta my yard!!!" before shooting.

Was this girl shot just crossing the yard?

^5! Big difference in shooting someone in your yard & breaking into your home!

In this way the Castle Doctrine Law would be on your side. I'm not sure it will save you if you shoot a guy crouching behind a bush or looking in your garage window.

If all there is is this guys forehead print on the glass and you killed him......I don't know pallie!

Problem with that approach is, they know where you live.

I don't get it. So what. They knew that from the start. And the person you kill can have angry relatives.

the story is kinda bullshit cuz it says that she was trying to burglarize his garage. But if old dude was sitting there, he saw her approach and start whatever it was she was doing.

So he layed in wait and when the moment was right for him he shot her.

It doesn't seem like he said..."Who's there? I have a gun! you better leave right now!"

Yep. And they can join them if their "loved one" was a criminal.

Mewa let's put it this way. I'm going to have a hard time shooting someone for trespassing, even breaking an entering (provided I'm not threatened).

But I plan on putting on one hell of a bluff.

Beat you to that crap wayyy up there.

Reguardless, likely she won't be going into anyone's garage for a while.

Same here, though the B&E may be a tossup. Depends if I was asleep or not.

So you would hide somewhere then shoot a burglar as he peeks in your basement window??

I don't have a basement.

A guy tried to climb into my living room window while I was laying on the couch. As soon as I saw his arm come in the window I yelled out. He jumped down and ran. I ran out the front door and tried to chase him but he had a bike.

If I had a gun, the only use woulda been if I was laying on the couch with it. And if I had the gun, I still would have yelled out.

You gun mugs sound like you woulda shot that arm reaching in cuz you are armed and ready for action.

Turns out the would-be robber was a kid. I made a police report and worked on more home security.

It's a fucking BBS, you take this shit too seriously.

Real deal?
Ok, my yard, bitched at and probably photographed, unless they attack, then all bets are off.

In the house frankly I'd be hard pressed to plant them but I would doubtlessly show them the business end and demand compliance. Any flinch towards anything other than the direct demands will result in my cleaning the walls and floor, though it's likely I'd have to mop up a puddle of whiz anyway.

So this kid on an ATV comes boring thru Dad's lower field up at the NY property, scaring the deer and cause way more noise than Dad cares to hear. Dad sees him disappear into the treeline. Dad gets his .22 and starts shooting into the trees in a direction he knows the kid isn't.

The kid on the ATV comes roaring out of the trees yelling "don't shoot, I'm down here! Don't shoot!" and goes away as fast as he can.

Just in case the kid gets some notion to call the police, Dad meanders down to the treeline and sets up a bullseye target, goes back the where he was and shoots a few holes in it. "Didn't know he was in there officer, I was just taking some target practice on my own damn property."

oK, I'll relax. Now put down the gun!

We all had cars at 16. No one was taking the short cut anymore because the short cut would take longer than hopping in your car and just driving. Even at 15 I wasn't crossing the field to go to a friends house at 3AM, my parents wouldn't have let me be outta the house that late. I didn't start sneaking out until I had a car and someplace more fun to go than just a friend's house. If there was no girl to go see there was no reason to risk sneaking out.

Why would you be telling the officer you aimed for anything other than center mass?

Mewa seems to believe you have some right to continue living after breaking into someone's house.

The last guy who cut through my yard is now doing 6 months in jail for criminal trespass.

If he had paid attention to the signs that say "NO TRESPASSING" in large day-glo orange letters, he might not be in such a situation.

So where is the thread where you tell us all about catching and prosecuting this guy?

I didn't say he was arrested for trespassing on my property, now did I?

Those are usually just for show.

Like "beware of dog", and there's no dog.

Or " ool notice there's no "p", in it, please keep it that way".

Nah. If he'd paid attention to MY signs, he wouldn't have gotten caught next door at the nursing home where his ex works...