Spiky burglar deterrent on top of gate - legal?

[Rob Morley]

If can you figure out the current draw then maybe you could make the conection with fuse wire that would melt after it had zapped him for a while, thus causing considerable puzzlement.

[ARWadsworth]

Vote for me. I could easily fetch the crime rate down to zero with one stroke.

Adam

[doozer]

I'm sure you could but I'm not sure that I (or hopefully anyone else) would agree with your methods. I suspect that you would take a similar approach to our current Government and start locking people up because they "look a bit shifty".

The problem with taking a zero tolerance stance on crime is that the side effect is general repression of everyone but the law makers. Just look at Saudi for a prime example. If you don't mind I will keep what liberty I have left and put up with the small amount of crime that occurs.

[ARWadsworth]

Who said anything about my methods or zero tolerance.

My method is to legalise everything.

The only snag is that the voters are not supposed to know this before the election :)

Adam

[Mike]

Police officers have no such authority in the courts (and are usually happy to point this out if you complain to them about noise or other nuisances). The officers could apply personally to a magistrate as private citizens, or report it to the council to take action but that's as far as they can go unless one of them wants to deliberately get hurt.

[Mike]

If he wants my vote he has to promise to hang them.

[anthonyberet]

I can't see why it is less legal than a wall or fence - it is not intended to hurt anyone, only to make them uncomfortable while burglimg you.

[Mary Fisher]

If he had been a tall 10 yo it would have still cut his hands if it had been at the top of a 6' wall.

I really don't think that's the reason for a height limit. And I thought it was 2m now, which as I'm sure you know is a bit more than 6'.

Mary

[doozer]

:-)

That's not a solution I had expected. Not completely sure that would work either but I'm more willing to give it a go.

[Joe]

Ah, well, there's the problem. Burglars have more human rights than law-abiding citizens in Europe. Or at least more expensive lawyers. Locks will probably be illegal soon.

Not that there are citizens anymore: apparently UK citizens cannot be treated differently from anyone else. Presumably this means anyone can apply for a UK passport? Sorry, EU passport. Are the French required to treat their own nationals the same as non-nationals, or is it just us?

[Mark Evans]

Dosn't that mean they should be PAT tested though :)

[T i m]

Just out of interest, where does 'folk having fun in the snow' stop and 'assult' start? I mean, tightly packing some snow into an iceball and throwing it square in the face of someone you don't like could be handy 'cover' for assult couldn't it? And if it's a kid and you were to complain to their parents (or the Police for that matter) I don't suppose they would consider it an 'issue' .. "only kids having fun, I bet you did it when you were a kid" etc (and no I didn't, not to strangers and certianly not with the intent of hurting / bullying someone?)

My daughter feels the same way and threatened to 'deck' any kid throwing snow (more typically slush / ice or snow with a stone insert) at her at school. Nothing to do with being a spoilsport, more to do with not wanting ice down yer neck, wet clothes or yer eye taken out especially as it's likely to be administered by kids who weren't her 'friends' (which brings me back to the assult 'cover' thing ..)?

Same as kids with supa soakers in the summer .. I would never have dreamed of squirting a stranger with a water pistol when I was a kid .. but then I never played 'knock-down-ginger' , broke a car aerial off or scrumped for apples either so maybe I had a deprived childhood? Or maybe I was taught respect for others and had more constructive things to do?

And 'trick or treat' (or obtaining goods by threatening behaviour' as I call it) .. should be banned, along with fireworks .. .. ;-)

All the best ..

T i m

[stejonda]

In message , T i m writes

What you need is a good woman T i m - see BBC2 18th March 10pm ;-)

[Mary Fisher]

Yes, but we did like each other, it was Mum, Dad and two brothers. Now if the sisters or other brother had been there it might have been a different story ...

That's terrible.

I don't think so. I didn't do any of those things (I think, what's knock-down-ginger?) but I've argued with Spouse about it. His street led to tusky fields and it was accepted that the local kids hopped over the low wall and helped themselves. The resulting belly ache and loose bowels didn't apparently deter them. Perhaps it affected their annual memory ... I think it was wrong. He used to shout at kids coming into our garden and helping themselves to apples, I say it's the same thing.

I don't think children do go scrumping these days, do they? Not round here anyway. Apples are too healthy. The tusky fields had a school built on them which was demolished for, I think light industry. Must have a look if I ever go round there again.

I suspect that's the case.

So do I. I've feigned simple-mindedness about trick or treat too, the word seems to have got around. But the bloody fireworks ... Gggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

I could do with one too. But I doubt she'd live up to my expectations ...

Mary

[T i m]

I've *got* a fairly good woman Dave (she's not Mrs Right but Mrs Right now ) She seems to think I'm the lucky one .. ?

I'll look out for it though ;-)

Cheers ..

T i m

p.s. A mate had a solution for the kids that used to stand at night on the school wall that happened to be at the bottom of his garden and throw stones through the school windows .. he would shoot them in the legs from the darkness of his back bedroom with a 1/4" steel bb from his catapult ... they didn't come back ;-)

[Andrew Chesters]

FLASH TEST!!

[Andrew Chesters]

Someones got to ask... What's a "Tusky"? I thought it was something you got on the front of an elephant...

[Mary Fisher]

I introduce Spouse as my first husband.

Mary

[Bob Eager]

It's a game for trainee ParcelForce delivery drivers.