Someone tried to steal my car now I'm worried

3v3

gemmalouanna wrote: »

....
Also knowing that I called the police once when I worked in a shop being told they were on their way only for them to phone back 5 mins before the shop was due to close asking if they still needed to attend - I wouldn't wait for them to arrive.

That's fine, that is your choice

However, if you decide you won't wait and decide to attack someone, who isn't threatening you, and you attack from behind and repeatedly assault them ... that is your choice. If you then expect the law of the land to ignore *your* act of assault in an unprovoked attack, then, naturally, you have to accept any consequences and it seems many of you would be surprised to discover you could, in turn, become the offender in an assault case

As I said, I don't make the laws, I abide by them.

If you take the law into your own hands, you can't expect your actions to be completely overlooked.

3v3

j.e.j. wrote: »

I'm starting to think 3v3 could be this guy's defence lawyer :rotfl::rotfl:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Next you'll be thinking I am the guy the OP assaulted

thegirlintheattic

j.e.j. wrote: »

As for attacking him, you were frightened of him (let's face it, it was you against a bloke, fgs!!) and for all you knew he could have had a weapon, so you can argue you weren't using unreasonable force.

Therein is the problem. The offender was not threatening the OP. From the OPs account he wasn't even aware of her, he was down the road and she attacked him from behind. The law states you can use reasonable force to DEFEND yourself. She was not defending herself though, she attacked him. If she was that frightened she would not have confronted him.

I'm not saying the offender is in the right and didn't deserve it, as I've said before, but the law is quite clear that this is assault.

Again, it is unlikely the offender is going to pursue it to court, considering he was trying to nick a car. He's going to want this to all be forgotten about quickly.

Turtle

I've had to stop reading this thread as I can't believe the number of people on the side of the scum bag stealing this lady's car. There's no wonder this country is in the state it's in. It makes no difference that the car was insured - there are always negative financial implications to something like this whether it's your fault or not.

Also, the police may have been called, but that doesn't mean they were actually on their way. What's she supposed to do - just stand there and watch it being wheeled off?!?

Well done OP, I'm glad you smacked him. No more than he deserves.

make_me_wise

yvonne13 wrote: »

It was around 00:30 hrs when my neighbour rang me saying a man was rolling my car away down the street and she had called the police. I jumped into my shoes and went out the back door as I didn't know how many people was taking my car and I didn't want to get hurt. As I looked there was only one lad so I jumped him from behind and slapped him around his head.

Anyway the police came round the corner and saw me slapping him round his head and told me to stop. Next minute the police started asking the man if he wanted to press charges against me for assault

I think you handled it all impeccably OP. A few months ago, before being pregnant, I wouldn't have thought twice about ramming my 6 inch heels up some bastewards nose if they were trying to knick my car. The old red mist would have decended (Im a redhead) and well quite frankly that would have been it.

I think that litte git would have a damm nerve to press charges on you, just because you did all you could to stop him stealing your car. What were the police thinking. I wonder how the officers would have reacted themselves when out of uniform and faced with their cars being taken. Not quite so by the book I bet.

Its no wonder there is chaos and anarchy on the streets when the police react like that. God I am :mad: for you. Not a good day to get a reasoned response from me re criminals and nutters I am afraid.

yvonne13_2

3v3,

What would you have done? Stood there and let him take your vehicle? Watch him drive it off and wave him goodbye?

I never called the police my neighbour did and I thought it best I stop the thief. Or would it have been better I let the skank take it, commit some kind of crime in it then burn it out and leave me with the bill.

And by the way the insurance company wouldn't have paid out because the car wasn't locked.

pupsicola

yvonne13 wrote: »

They never arrested him, they let him go and told me off saying I was using using a weapon.

I used the front and back of my hand, back and forth over and over and he never tried to hit me back, he must have been in shock.

Since when was your hand a weapon? As soon as those police officers were out of sight you should have got in the car, used those offensive weapons of yours to drive round, track that little git down and scare the holy !!!! out of him by getting a wee bit close with the wheels. Yeah alright I know that isn't really an option and would have gotten you in more trouble, but its a nice thought hey.

Jinx

While I can totally see that this would legally have been assault, I'd have slapped him too!! It may not be legal but sounds like karma to me, I hope he has learned his lesson

gemmalouanna

yvonne13 wrote: »

3v3,

What would you have done? Stood there and let him take your vehicle? Watch him drive it off and wave him goodbye?

I never called the police my neighbour did and I thought it best I stop the thief. Or would it have been better I let the skank take it, commit some kind of crime in it then burn it out and leave me with the bill.

And by the way the insurance company wouldn't have paid out because the car wasn't locked.

Dont justify yourself - most posters agree with what you did to the scum bag, just defending your property!

Lots have said they would done the same well maybe we are just pretending we would have been as brave...

pupsicola

3v3 wrote: »

So, you assaulted him: simple.

Did he threaten you? Was he aggressive towards you? Probably not seeing as you "jumped him from behind".

The law allows for "reasonable force" to protect yourself and your property. You attacked him from behind, struck him repeatedly around the head. Under the circumstances, they probably decided you were using unreasonable force; particularly as, when they came around the corner, you were still in the act and they had to tell you to stop!

Yes, he could change his mind; as for will he? Most likely not ... unless your hitting him causes an injury which means he ends up in hospital, then he might change his mind.

This poster has got to be the waster who stole your car OP. Only someone on that level could justify what happened to you and the way the police didn't deal with it by the above.

For pity sake he was stealing her car. Alot of people rely on their cars to get to and from work and its their only way of being able to make a living.

Flipping do gooders who are on the side of criminals make me so :mad: