When you confront someone breaking into your house, What is REASONABLE force, UK?

Question

When you confront someone breaking into your house, What is REASONABLE force, UK?

Answer 1

Chinese burn or a wedgie but NOT a Super wedgie...

....That would be classed as UNREASONABLE,lmao.

Answer 2

In the UK you can tap them lightly with a feather duster PROVIDED it has been recently laundered and you mind their piercings. Come the revolution this will be one of the first things changed.

Answer 3

DON'T shoot them,

look what happened to Tony Martin.

Injustice at it's best.

Answer 4

tazer gun

or baseball bat to the legs/arms

Answer 5

If they try to hit you, hit them back harder. If they have a knife or gun, it's quite reasonable for you to have a bigger knife or gun. That should give you some idea.

Answer 6

In America we can just shoot them.

Answer 7

You have to ask them to leave, if they dont leave you can bring them to the floor and hold them there till the police come, but id rather put a crowbar through their head (although it would possibly kill them, but they shouldnt have broke in, in the first place), but nowadays it will be your oil being nicked, not your house burgaled.

Answer 8

In the UK you can tell them off, but you have to do it in a nice way in c so that your not affecting their human rights.

Answer 9

nail them to the floor by their nuts , or does that seem a little over the top!

Answer 10

I wish I could get my hands on some pepper spray

(for self defence)

Answer 11

shoot them.

Answer 12

Very good question

It's deliberately vague

'reasonable' is the minimum necessary in the circumstances

Answer 13

i think you're allowed to knock 'em out, you just can't kill them.

Answer 14

An equivelent to the force applied to you or enough force to protect yourself and others,ie if the person is about to kill you you would have reasonable grounds to either kill them or disable them to such an extent,using a sledgehammer against an unarmed housebreaker would be considered OTT,,

Answer 15

Crow bar to the forehead

Answer 16

kick in between the legs. he never wanted children anyway

Answer 17

In all honesty I dont think there would be alot I could do except call the police...

Answer 18

A 410 shotgun aimed low.

Answer 19

When someone breaks into your house, and you get into a fight with them it is usually called self defence since they are the intruders. Of course you don't want to go to extremes unless it means defending your own life. Having said that it is wise to be tactful too as the intruder maybe just a kid. The first answerer answer is funny haha, I recall my spontaneous reaction was to pick up my shoe ( the nearest thing i could THINK of ( not much thinking there at that moment!!) and threw it till it reached the intruder's foot! Needless to say , it worked!