Jim Yanik wrote:
What does this have to do with someone toilet papering a house?


it means there may not be much TPing occurring in Texas.
you could get shot for it.

Not all locales protect criminals during the commission of their
crime. I wish Florida would adopt such language in their legal code.

It sorta does. The recent (2005) passage of Florida's "Castle Doctrine" law
establishes the presumption that a criminal who forcibly enters or intrudes
into your home or occupied vehicle is there to cause death or great bodily
harm. You may use any manner of force, including deadly force, against that
person.

It doesn't matter that the intruder was drunk, or negligent, or mistaken.

Further, you may not be sued for any damages sustained by the victim.

Go Florida!

How all this silliness came about:

For generations (well, at least since the Magna Carta in 1216), there exited
in either black-letter or common law the notion that one's home is a
"castle" and, to remain inviolate, the owner had the unquestioned right to
repel intruders by any means necessary. And that right could not be
gainsayed by anyone.

Then a bunch of egg-heads got together and promulgated the "Model Penal
Code" in 1976. The so-called "Castle Doctrine" was absent from the MPC and
state legislatures, with modest tinkering, adopted the thing wholesale. So
the Castle Doctrine disappeared.

Thanks to publicity Florida generated (mainly) many states have repaired
this deficiency in their state laws.