On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:28:20 -0800 (PST), harry wrote:

On Dec 24, 12:33*am, "
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On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:25:24 -0500, "Percival P. Cassidy"





wrote:
On 12/23/10 07:06 pm, wrote:

The UK is screwed up in ways most Americans can scarcely comprehend.

snipped the cases about which I know nothing

... Guy goes away for the
weekend, comes back to find east-European illegal aliens squatting in
his house and when he calls the cops they tell him it's a civil matter
and there's nothing they can do, takes him months to get his house back
and it's trashed when he does (case repeated over and over).

Of course trespass is a civil matter, but forced entry is not. How did
the intruders get in? If they did not have to break in to gain access,
no crime was committed and it's a civil matter.

So if the perp picks the lock he can live there forever? *You harrys are
*nuts*.

I no longer live in the UK, but I am *guessing* that picking a lock
still counts as "forced entry." And no, "squatters" (as the law calls
them) can be removed by proceedings *in civil court*.

He says the door was unlocked. *How do you tell? *What's the difference? Shoot
the bum! *He won't do it again.- Hide quoted text -

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It can be determined forensically if a lock was picked.

Nonsense. Even if so, are the police going to come out and do it? They won't
even get off their butts to throw the bums out. You people are *crazy* (be we
all knew that).

However how
many people know how to pick a lock? They just break a window.

There are *many* ways to get into houses, leaving no evidence. *ALL* of them
illegal (if uninvited), here. Property rights are rather important to a
society.