Re: Ahoy Pie R8s! New Win11

On 19/08/2026 22:26, rbowman wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:47:42 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> I love the US 'burglarise'
>> Both countries needed to make a verb out of the activities of burglars.
>> The UK chose 'to burgle'.
> 
> Many jurisdictions in the US specify burglary as entering an unoccupied
> building and home invasion for an occupied building.
> 
UK law, has breaking and entering, burglary and robbery with violence.
Or did. They reformed it a bit

"The old common law term "breaking and entering" is now encompassed 
within the statutory offence of burglary. A person commits burglary if 
they enter any building (or part of a building) as a trespasser"

"If a person commits a standard burglary and has with them at the time 
any firearm, imitation firearm, explosive, or weapon of offence, it 
becomes aggravated burglary"

"Robbery is fundamentally different from burglary because it focuses on 
a direct confrontation and theft from a person. A person is guilty of 
robbery if they steal and immediately before or at the time of doing so, 
and in order to do so, they use force on any person or put/seek to put 
any person in fear of being subjected to force"

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_invasion
> 
> This state has the castle doctrine with a no retreat clause:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_doctrine
> 
> It isn't an automatic license to kill. A local was convicted of murder
> since he baited a kid breaking into garages by leaving the door open. It
> didn't help that he fired a 12 gauge into the dark garage 4 times without
> identifying a target. 4th rule of firearm safety:
> 

> Always Be Sure of Your Target and What’s Beyond It
> 

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