is it true that if you catch a burglar in the act, in your house , you can get done if you hit them?

Question

get done= means get into trouble with the law. sorry its the way we talk where I come from.

Answer 1

assault is assault the best thing to do is drag him upstairs and trhow the t**t out of the bedroom window when the police come tell them he jumped when he got caught

Answer 2

I am assuming you are in the UK but you have answers from the US where people are allowed to defend their home. In the UK & Ireland we can only use 'reasonable force' which is rather a vague term. Presumably we have to wait for an intruder to kill us, then we can kill them right back. I remember reading some advice somewhere that if there is a burglar in your home you should lock yourself in your bedroom and call the police.
Alternatively, direct the intruder(s) to where ever your cash and jewelry are hidden. That way they won't ransack the place looking for them. Give them your car keys and give them a hand loading up the electronic goods. The police might arrive in a day or so.
I made up that last paragraph. I think in the US burglars are liable to be shot, quite within the law. In the UK and Ireland in recent years there were high profile and controversial cases where burglars were shot dead and the property owner was convicted of murder. However, I know of one case in Ireland where a burglar was shot (not fatally) and no charges were pressed.

Answer 3

No it's not true. If you find a stranger in your home and you shoot them or hit them, your within your rights. If you feel threatened at all, no judge or jury will convect you for this. Most of the time the police will not even make an arrest for something like this. If the person steps inside your home uninvited, you have the right to do what is necessary to protect your safety and belongings.

I just read some of the responses from others and I don't know where they live but it's not around my part of the country. We just had a case of a drug addict breaking into a home near downtown and the owner shot and killed them even though the man had no weapon. They weren't even arrested for the killing. They were protecting their home environment.

Answer 4

It's all a question of "reasonable force" and what you do in order to restrain them. I'm sure most people in the UK remember farmer Tony Martin who shot and killed a burglar with a gun and went to prison for defending his property. The judges decided that this was unreasonable force. The same could apply if you clubbed an intruder over the head with a frying pan. You could be looking at an assault charge.

Answer 5

You are entitled to use 'reasonable force' to defend life and property and you can only get in trouble if you use a level of force deemed to be 'grossly disproportionate' examples below:-
Somebody breaks into your house and pushes you. You then hit him / her with a chair and he falls down the stairs and breaks his arm - little for you to worry about
Somebody breaks into your house and you confront him with a loaded crossbow. He panics and runs for the door and you shoot him in the back killing him - youre going away.
Somebody breaks into your house and while he is busy unplugging your TV you throw him to the floor and sit on him whilst waiting for the police - again nothing to worry about
You catch somebody breaking in and manage to tie him up. While waiting for the police the burglar begins winding you up. You put the boot in a little. Again youre going away.

Although you shouldnt be guilty of any wrongdoing in any of the above cases, we have some stupid laws!
Hope this helps

Answer 6

In the UK you can use reasonable force to restrain a burglar and to defend yourself if attacked. So you can hit him/her but will have explain that it was reasonable force in the circumstances. Additionally, if you were charged as long as you can argue that your actions were reasonable no jury is going to convict you. What you definitely cannot do is kill a burglar just because he is there.

Answer 7

A burglar can be hit validly for intruding into your property and to stop him from continuing with the crime. It is authorized under the Penal Law as defense of property.

Answer 8

You are allowed to use reasonable force to deter the burglar but it is very difficult to define reasonable.If the burglar does not attack you you must not hit him but probably allow him to leave your premises without any ill gotten gains.If however he uses force against you can defend yourself and detain or evict the burglar but again you cannot use excessive force.

Answer 9

Its all a matter of degrees.

You can protect yourself. If you hit then and knock them out, then if you keep hitting them, you are being excessive.

If you grab a knife and stab them, then that's excessive unless you can argue that they have a knife and you feared for your life.

Basically, if there's somebody in your house, you can use REASONABLE force to protect yourself and your property, but nothing that ht police or a court would see as excessive.

Tony Martin was rightfully convicted becuase he shot them in the back as they were leaving. The jury decided that he was not protecting himself as they were already on the way out, but Tony deicded the shoot them in revenge for stealing his possessions which is very different and very wrong.

Answer 10

an ordinary way is with cheatcodes like the 1st answer stated... only hit crtl+shift+c (or some thing like that) to get the cheat window up then style in moveObjects On Now bypass to purchase or build mode and %. up the burgler and delete her. ordinary peasy... until of direction your little purchase/build mode issues are long gone. Then use a distinctive cheat like the 1st solutions.

Answer 11

Only one jurisdiction (Texas) allows either threat or use of
deadly force in defense of property. Deadly force is defined as that level of force which is capable of causing great bodily injury or death.
If such force is used in self defense, the question turns on the reasonability of the action taken. Katco v. Briney,