Homeowner Defends Home, Is In Trouble (Pt 94)
A cynic might suspect that the main motivation for passing on an article in the Telegraph declaring that Myleene Klass fought off intruders with a kitchen knife was the opportunity to publish this picture. TheEye refutes this completely.
Miss Klass, a model for Marks & Spencer and a former singer with the pop group Hear’Say, was in her kitchen in the early hours of Friday when she saw two teenagers behaving suspiciously in her garden.
The youths approached the kitchen window, before attempting to break into her garden shed, prompting Miss Klass to wave a kitchen knife to scare them away.
Miss Klass, 31, who was alone in her house in Potters Bar, Herts, with her two-year-old daughter, Ava, called the police. When they arrived at her house they informed her that she should not have used a knife to scare off the youths because carrying an “offensive weapon” – even in her own home – was illegal.
This reduces TheEye to Daily Mail-esque levels of spluttering. At what point does a kitchen implement in a kitchen become an ‘offensive weapon’? A the point that people are trying to rob you and you have a two-year old in the house? Or at the point that you are intimidating the carrots? It’s high time that the sanctity of the home was returned to the owner, and in the presence of intruders you’d really have to do something exceptional when hurting them (TheEye is thinking of long term torture and the like) before Plod are allowed to start moaning about the “rights” of home invaders.
Police making up the law as they go along again.
As the radio 2 presenter said after the news, “stop buttering the toast, that knife in your home is illegal now”. WTF.
Exactly, but its a visceral thing now. It’s ingrained in the statist culture and even with radical action this sort of thing won’t be rooted out in a hurry. At the moment our only straw of comfort is that people still react to it with contempt – its when people just shrug and go along with it that we have lost the fight for common sense.
I’ve given it a lot of careful consideration, and have decided that nobody who breaks into my home is ever, ever escaping. May as well finish them off, cut them up and feed them to the pike in the nearby reservoir. Hence leaving Plod free to publicly debate with Jack Straw as to who is the least useful to the rest of society.