"HeyBub" wrote in message
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Bob F wrote:
HeyBub wrote:
Jim Yanik wrote:

Use of deadly force against a simple trespasser alone is never
justified.

how do you KNOW that a trespasser is a "simple" trespasser?
Can you read minds?


Good question. The question that goes to the police, the prosecutor,
and, perhaps ultimately, to the jury is: "Would a reasonable person
in the same or similar circumstances have concluded the trespasser
was a threat?"
If the trespasser is in MY bedroom at 3:00 a.m., wearing a mask and
armed with a chainsaw, each of the above evaluators would probably
tilt in one direction. If, however, the deceased is a letter-carrier
with a signature-required letter in one hand and my door-knocker
gripped in the other, the decision might tip in the other way.

On the situations that fall between these two extremes, its probably
best to shoot first and tell the cops: "He screamed he was going to
kill me!"
Actually, it's probably better to tell the cops nothing. And there's
no requirement that you even HAVE to even CALL the cops. Maybe after
the ball game...

Let us know how that works out for you.

What would you do?

You can't drag him out to the curb for "heavy trash pickup." That would
probably fall under "abuse of a corpse" which is against the law.

further down, there's the thread about how to abandon an old well....