 Quote:
Originally Posted by highway80west  Agreed, CF. Even if he did call the sheriff, they were about 20 miles away. So he took it upon himself to give chase. I don't know if the perps will bring forth a lawsuit, even though they are in jail for burglary.
Now that the store owner has bars on the windows, and the door, it is more burglar-proof. But a determined burglar would try and see what happens.  | Any Judge that would let a law suit go forward is ignoring one of the oldest and most basic of all legal precedents, a criminal cannot benefit from a crime (Riggs v. Palmer, 115 N.Y. 506 (1889)).
dmk Conservatism, I repeat is not an ideology. It does not breed fanatics....But if you want men who seek, reasonably and prudently, to reconcile the best in wisdom of our ancestors with the change which is essential to a vigorous civil social existence, then you will do well to turn to conservative principles
-Russell Kirk- |