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http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006120785,00.html

Stupid f'ing cops, made a mistake and rather than say "Oh we're sorry" and swallow their pride, they show their arrogance and say it's his fault for breaking into his own home.

I agree with THRAWN, except on the stupid fing cops part. THRAWN is far stupider, and never fing.

and never fing! oh man... i'm not going to stop laughing until tomorrow.

LMAO!

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stupid bobbies, thats why we call em' the 'filth

funny story tho.

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  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}

If anyone would read the story, it sounds reasonable:



It wasn't his house - he was renting. He was released after the landlady didn't press charges.

Pfft. Some Jedi. I can't believe he didn't use the old mind trick. Any half-wit padawan with a very low midi-chlorian count knows how to use it.

What's that? Some kind of new sound format? :em321:

And there's the key. Of course, he could have knocked on his land lady's door and asked to be let in. It all could have been settled on site before the cops took him down to jail to if the land lady had said she didn't want to press charges at the scene. Then again, maybe she wanted him to sit in jail for a few hours so he understood that vandalizing someone else's property isn't ok. Don't jump all over the cops' asses when there isn't enough information in the story to actually make an informed decision about whether the cops overreacted.

I think I'm going to become a cop in whatever town THRAWN lives in just so I can **** with him on a daily basis.

So he was so embarrassed that he couldn't wait for his landlady to let him in? Well if I dressed up as a Jedi, I might be. And I don't see that the cops did anything wrong.

The one thing you're missing is that he probably rents a house and not a flat/apartment. My landlady lives about 3 miles away, so it's not just a case of banging on her door and having her let us in

Yeah, that's true.

That was awesome.

You're absolutely right:
"...Devon and Cornwall Police said: “He committed an offence as the damaged property didn’t belong to him. He was issued with a caution.”..."

Any judge would throw out that charge because it's not ligitimate. For all intent an purposes, the property IS his. Just because you're only renting a property doesn't mean you don't have rights to it. Tennants actually have a lot of power when it comes to saying what can and can not be done to the property. They even have the right to sublease it to a 3rd party if they want.

As a tennat, you have no right to damage the property because it belongs to someone else.

OHLY CRPA

**** the man.. man..

Just man.. I hate the maaan.... He's all.. "I'M THE MAN AND YOU'RE NOT SO BEND OVER"... and then I'm all.. like "HEY MAAAN LET ME SMOKE OUT OF MY HOOKAH IN PEACE MAAAAN!!!"

Word. Man. Can I stand straight up again yet?

It depends on what's contained in the lease that is drawn up by the landlord and signed on moving in.

Define 'damage'. I would consider silly jedi costumes on my rented property to decrease the value of that land in the first place!

I doubt breaking windows is in the agreement. :p

ya cops can be yelllerbellies at times

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Read much?

I was meaning the lease determined whether or not the tenant techniqually owned the property.

Sure you do, as long as you intend to repair or replace anything that you damage.

As a tennant, I could decide I didn't like the yard because of weeds and whatnot. I could then completely dig up the entire yard and then replace it with new sheets of grass.

Sama goes for this case. I'm sure he had every intention of repairing the window (and I'm sure he did).

The cops messed up. It's as simple as that.

Baconfish, yeah...to an extent you're right. There are, however, a LOT of leases out there that violate the general rights of Tennants. Just because it's in an agreement, doesn't make it legally binding. Especially, if it violates a General Law provided by the Legislature.

Wait hold everything.... Has this guy ever heard of a key? or a door?

Either the party was close enough that he didn't need to take his keys, or he's one of these weird people that keep their house key on a different keychain from their car keys. In either case, he apparently "locked them inside." So, he was locked out and decided to use his saber prop to bust the window and get inside.

"Star Wars nut Glen, 25, had been to a fancy dress party — but forgot his keys."

I still disagree. The officers did not know whether his intent was malicious or not. After contacting the landlady, he was released.