17 yr old stabbed.

http://news.aol.co.uk/man-stabs-teenage-burglar-to-death/article/20090314110609990004

This might sound harsh....but...  who really cares? i certainly don't!  what the hell was he doing there anyway!  trying to rob the house! well this is what happens! maybe it'll teach his mates that breaking into houses can be a pretty stupid and dangerous thing to do! put your hand in an animals house and you'll get bitten!! we are only animals and have to defend our homes!

I don't know the full detail to be fair, so maybe i'm been a little unfair, but on the face of it, I have to say this is how i feel about things like this!

What does everyone else think?

This reminds me of the farmer who shot dead the man who was burgling his house for the second time, and they sent the poor farmer to prison. 

Jason, I agree with you wholeheartedly!  A friend of mine (a state trouper) once advised me, if someone breaks into your house and you hurt him while trying to defend yourself, just make sure that you knock him out cold and then drag his sorry butt completely into the house before calling the police. Because then, it'll be your word against his and you'll be exonerated. But if you hurt him and he is able to get away, and if he reports you to the police  for hurting him, it won't matter that he was breaking into your house or threatening you with bodily harm; you'll be arrested and convicted because it's your word against his and he is the injured party.  WHAT???!!!!!!!!!!!

I've heard of burglers suing the homeowner who hurt him during a break in...yep that's right! Great stuff!

So when some bad guy try to break into my house I must remember to knock him out with my great right hook and then drag his 250 pound butt out of my house.  Sure..I can do that!! (insert sarcasm here).

Justice is a thing of the past. No longer can we defend anything..not ourselves, our homes, our families...nothing. So let the dregs of society run rampant...maybe they will get lucky and get hurt during a break in and make thousands of dollars when they sue a homeowner.

I wonder what will happen to the homeowner.

We had an guy tried to break into my parents house one time, we think he was trying to break into the house next door to us, as it turned out he was an covicted rapiest and they next door had an teenage daughter...it was good thing my dad and brother were home, and my dad has always been the wildest thing "upset"..they hauled him off beggging them to get him away from my "crazy" father before he killed him, and dad took off after him with my brother's wooden baseball bat and he fell on the ground, not knowing in the night my dad had built an small ridge up in the back yard..instead of it being flat like most the yards had been...but this dude broke out the lock on the back screen door, the dead bolt lock and the door knob lock on the door trying to break in. He apparently saw my mother in the peek of the front curtain sitting there in her night gown watching late night TV...and thought she was alone, as dad had went to bed and so had my brother, my brother sayed with my mom and called the police. An year after the incident, and she had already died, they awarded them the money for the damages he made that night breaking in. I think the dude should of suffered her diabetes/health pains myself..then he wouldn't of had time for such antics. But so goes I guess.