British humour at its finest

[Scipio]

I laugh at your retarded foreign laws.

This is the guy who thinks pushing someone out of a door is assault.

No, I think that it's a battery.

[Brazen]

Just to round off the perfect Daily Mail story, Romanians are also implicated in the death of Princess Diana. And squatters cause cancer.

[derspiess]

In short, there are countless possible considerations and issues here that a common bobby (or derspiess) is neither prepared nor authorised to deal with. That's is why we have courts.

So you have a situation where one family is clearly the legal residents of the house, and another that had broken in & clearly doesn't belong there, and the police are supposed to just throw up their hands & leave it to however long it takes the legal system to figure it out?  I really can't imagine that happening, not where I live anyway.

[derspiess]

They should have been arrested.

Illegal immigrants FTW! They are our future!

They are not illegal immigrants, you retard. Speaking legally, they are an equivalent of Alabamans squatting in Manhattan.

Yeah, Alabaman gypsies who speak Romanian & almost no English

[Ed Anger]

Just to round off the perfect Daily Mail story, Romanians are also implicated in the death of Princess Diana. And squatters cause cancer.

I KNEW IT!

[Gups]

In short, there are countless possible considerations and issues here that a common bobby (or derspiess) is neither prepared nor authorised to deal with. That's is why we have courts.

So you have a situation where one family is clearly the legal residents of the house, and another that had broken in & clearly doesn't belong there, and the police are supposed to just throw up their hands & leave it to however long it takes the legal system to figure it out?  I really can't imagine that happening, not where I live anyway.

It doesn't take more than a day or two to get a possession order against squatters from the local court and another day or two to get them evicted by the court bailiff.

Unfortunately our policemen are not allowed to undertake judicial functions such as deciding who is entitled to occupy which property. Squatting is not, btw, a criminal offence provided there was no forced entry.

[Pat]

I laugh at your retarded foreign laws.

This is the guy who thinks pushing someone out of a door is assault.

No, I think that it's a battery.

I meant Slargos, you solipsist.

[Malthus]

In short, there are countless possible considerations and issues here that a common bobby (or derspiess) is neither prepared nor authorised to deal with. That's is why we have courts.

So you have a situation where one family is clearly the legal residents of the house, and another that had broken in & clearly doesn't belong there, and the police are supposed to just throw up their hands & leave it to however long it takes the legal system to figure it out?  I really can't imagine that happening, not where I live anyway.

It doesn't take more than a day or two to get a possession order against squatters from the local court and another day or two to get them evicted by the court bailiff.

Unfortunately our policemen are not allowed to undertake judicial functions such as deciding who is entitled to occupy which property. Squatting is not, btw, a criminal offence provided there was no forced entry.

I agree with the first part. Not the cop's job absent a court order to evict people.

I don't understand the last part. How does one gain access to someone elses' house without forced entry?

[Gups]

Generally speaking it's because they've left a window open.

Squatters hardly ever squat occupied buildings, because they'd be kicked out so quickly. They look for vacant places and then see if they can work out a way of getting into them without forcing entry.

[grumbler]

Generally speaking it's because they've left a window open.

Squatters hardly ever squat occupied buildings, because they'd be kicked out so quickly. They look for vacant places and then see if they can work out a way of getting into them without leaving evidence of forcing entry.

FTP

[Gups]

Generally speaking it's because they've left a window open.

Squatters hardly ever squat occupied buildings, because they'd be kicked out so quickly. They look for vacant places and then see if they can work out a way of getting into them without leaving evidence of forcing entry.

FTP

Good fix.

[Scipio]

I laugh at your retarded foreign laws.

This is the guy who thinks pushing someone out of a door is assault.

No, I think that it's a battery.

I meant Slargos, you solipsist.

I'm no solipsist.  I'm a believer in the strong Scipionic principle of the universe.