[QUOTE="Ninja_Zombie83"]The flaw in your logic is that by picking up the phone and calling the police, the intruder doesn't have to STOP stealing, he simply knows that he needs to steal quickly. You arn't preventing anything from happening again, you are simply telling the intruder "If you are going to steal, I will run and let you. All you need to do, is do it quickly (because theft happens so slowly anyways pfft).
When the police show up, do you think they are going to bust out their CSI equipment, dust for prints and run DNA samples? No. They are going to ask you what was stolen, suggest some security measures, (like lock the doors and windows) and have a nice night. They will give you a list of information to turn into your insurance. They do not dust. They do not investigate. Period. Anyone who has ever had their things stolen and called the police know this is what happens.
Not to sound too negative towards law enforcement, but this is real life. Police do not stop crime, they are a deterence, otherwise we wouldn't have crime! Police show up after the crime has been commited. They gather information to stack against the criminal if he is ever caught, but cases where things are stolen often never get solved. Calling the police *during* a robbery will not fix the situation nor will it prevent it from happening again. Calling the police also doesn't ensure your saftey. Having that phone in your hand talking to the police isn't a "saftey measure".
If you do decide to take matters into your own hands, history shows you need to make sure that YOU are the one who is better prepared. In order to win, you can not rely on the chance the other person will make a mistake. You can only say "using a sword is overkill, its too much" until the intruder had a gun. The killer knew his risks when he broke the law. He broke into the kids house multiple times, and his pattern only suggests he would have continued and that he didn't fear/respect the law. Those who would have hid and called the police (this intruder had broken in before, so of course the police was called before) and say the kid was wrong for defending (thats right, read the OT, he was attacked), are cowards.
fireflyJR
Sigh...Coward? Really? How brave does it make you for slicing a man in two who was stealing stuff from your garage? How brave are you for cutting off a man's hands because he stole what? Power tools? A lawn mower? Maybe a bike you were keeping in the garage? It's all about perspective. You come home and find a man about to rape/torture your wife or kids, then hell yes, you do what needs to be done. come tell me that after your house has been broken into 3 times lol...some of you people...
Seriously, it is going to take something like this to happen to you for you to actually clue in.
So since you works as a dispatcher (pretty cool job btw!!!) you would know that it takes officers at least 10 minutes to get to the scene of a BnE. So I suppose I should just hide as I have my house ransacked...did I mention that its being ransacked for the 3rd time...
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