^^^ it's all about reasonable force. i don't think the judges look too kindly on people shooting burglars unless they believed that you thought you life was in mortal danger.

and yeah, i'm sure our judges have more sense to throw out cases of the home invader suing the homeowner.

good thing that guy was up watching his security camera. I hate leaving my car on the street but its my only real option

the guy in the video did not use resonable force than... he try to attack a guy that appears to be unarm with a baseball bat, he is also physically bigger than the thief. I guess he could argue that the thief might try to ran him over with their car, but than again it seems like at the end of the video he went after the thief in his car lol

^ but on the flip side, the thief only looked in the car. He could claim he was only admiring a nice car, as he hadn't actually done anything yet.

I was disappointed... it didn't go nearly wrong enough.

admiring a nice car, with his hoodie on in the middle of the night and then running to the getaway car when he knows hes innocent? naw bra, judges are smart these days.

Plus he's trespassing

Actually, the judge would not throw out the case because they would be in two different courts suing for damage.

Tort law does not relate to criminal law.

So thats why there are many cases where a criminal broke in to someone's house in B.C and he goes to jail for a week or gets a slap on the wrist but during the burglary the victim trips or falls on your property you still owe them a duty of care.

So after his sentence when he comes out of jail he can bring you to court and sue you.

This is fucking stupid but that is how our system works.



Doesn't work like that judges follow rules and there needs to be an actus reus and mens rea.

Actus being the Guilty Act and Mens being Guilty Mind.

You need to prove that he has both in order for him to be criminal responsible.

If there was a jury involved that would be different and they would look at it at a different perspective, they would not look at the law at the experts extent and just judge them depending on how their emotions feel about the criminal.

moral of the lesson: it's not worth trying to steal an early 80's domestic on a driveway in surrey.