Man leaves home for a week, then 15 squatters move in

[polarmystery]

n/m

 

[manlymatt83]

Give him guns. Allow him to shoot them all.

 

[surfsatwerk]

n/m

 

[BALIstik916]

If he got into his own house with a gun and took care of business, could that be considered an act of self defense because technically there are home invaders on his property?

 

[Homerboy]

ummm this is seriously F'ed up
not only the squaters, but that that place is worth £700,000. Not even a sink in th kitchen? WTF?

 

[PingSpike]

I wonder how much it would cost to hire goons for this. The guy is fairly well off. Obviously this enrages me.

 

[MotF Bane]

That wouldn't happen in America. The fuckers would all be dead.

 

[Beev]

Break in and assault them, or just shoot them. It's his house, he can say it was self defense.

 

[Gibson486]

Someone give me insight to why squatting is legal?

 

[Scouzer]

If he got into his own house with a gun and took care of business, could that be considered an act of self defense because technically there are home invaders on his property?

British laws don't really allow for self defence.

 

[PingSpike]

If he got into his own house with a gun and took care of business, could that be considered an act of self defense because technically there are home invaders on his property?

This is the UK. When some one invades your house you have to make them tea and give them a BJ.

 

[crashtestdummy]

Break and enter too...since he locked the place before he went away.

Unfortunately that seems to be hearsay, as the residents claim it was open. This is just messed up. There's no way this should be even remotely possible.

 

[Gibson486]

ummm this is seriously F'ed up
not only the squaters, but that that place is worth £700,000. Not even a sink in th kitchen? WTF?

LOL...my thought too....

 

[OutHouse]

doesnt england have tresspassing laws and B&E laws? wtf

where is johnofsheffield i would like to hear what he has to say about this.

 

[Tristicus]

What the shit? They would all have bullets in their heads if it was me.

 

[AMDZen]

If he got into his own house with a gun and took care of business, could that be considered an act of self defense because technically there are home invaders on his property?

This is the UK, your breaking the law simply by owning the gun - much less using it

Are people reading this article like its the US or something?

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Unfortunately that seems to be hearsay, as the residents claim it was open. This is just messed up. There's no way this should be even remotely possible.

Considering the squatters changed the locks, it should be pretty easy to prove this.

 

[apac]

ummm this is seriously F'ed up
not only the squaters, but that that place is worth £700,000. Not even a sink in th kitchen? WTF?

When the squatters are kicked out they'll probably take everything but the kitchen sink.

 

[Aharami]

http://standardspeaker.com/news/couple-loses-land-to-squatter-s-rights-law-1.308398

It shouldn't be. Thank lawyers for perpetuating stupidity, I guess.

As a homeowner who's done considerable amount of work to his house, I'd lose my mind and shoot those fuckers in the OP's story!

And the fact that the lawyer got more land than the defendant in the settlement in jlee's link, just boggles my mind!! So the couple bought the land, paid taxes on it for 21 yrs, and then only gets 20% of the land in the settlement when their own lawyer gets 25%?!?

 

[SlitheryDee]

That's insane. Why bother owning a house in the UK when someone can just come along and take it?

 

[Krazy4Real]

Wow... the UK is retarded.

 

[BudAshes]

Time to find some tear gas.

 

[zinfamous]

That's insane. Why bother owning a house in the UK when someone can just come along and take it?

I guess 200 years of Viking pillaging leaves a rather indelible mark on a nation's concept of personal ownership.

😀

 

[metalmania]

This picture reminds me of the movie "Demons 2".

 

[spacejamz]

As a homeowner who's done considerable amount of work to his house, I'd lose my mind and shoot those fuckers in the OP's story!

And the fact that the lawyer got more land than the defendant in the settlement in jlee's link, just boggles my mind!! So the couple bought the land, paid taxes on it for 21 yrs, and then only gets 20% of the land in the settlement when their own lawyer gets 25%?!?

According to the article, they just agreed to this settlement because they didn't want to go to court...

You would think that if you were paying taxes on a piece of property for 21 years, you would check it out once in awhile...