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Originally Posted by Knalus
using the handle = reasonable
using the axhead = unreasonable
Under the circumstances I've heard. Even without knowing where the wife was. Property (car, garage) is included in what a man can use force to defend. Under other circumstances this would change.
This is also Taber. Driveways may be quite a bit longer than in Calgary, it may have been unfeasible to park on the street.
I sure hope the crown pays the legal costs if/when he gets acquitted.
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One of the newspaper articles described the guy as a farmer. They also said that the burglar fled the scene and got tangled in barbed-wire on the fence to his property. Sounds like this was rural property and not in the town proper. Not sure how that affects the case though.
Edit: The Calgary Herald says it was an acreage:
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/RC...733/story.html
Edit 2: Ugh. And his lawyer described it as "meting out a little prairie justice". That kind of thing is exactly what the police and the Crown don't want citizens to do.
Edit 3: Either I read the article wrong or it's changed since my post but I guess the lawyer said this was NOT a case of meting out a little prairie justice. My bad. Maybe.