Couple held at gunpoint, arrested after buying home

[crazy canuck]

Surely even the prairies have computerized their records.  I have no idea what a full vs partial torrens system has to do with it.

[derspiess]

...and the thread comes to a screeching halt.

[crazy canuck]

...and the thread comes to a screeching halt.

You shouldnt have posted.

[Barrister]

Surely even the prairies have computerized their records.  I have no idea what a full vs partial torrens system has to do with it.

I'm handicapped because I worked a couple years in real estate - but that was close to 15 years ago!  It definitely wasn't computerized back then.

Even now I think the records are comptuerized, but you still need to physically file original documents.

[CountDeMoney]

What makes you think the neighbors have personally seen an increase in burglaries?

That's often the back black story for incidents like this.

Edited for clarity.  And reality.  Again.

[crazy canuck]

Even now I think the records are comptuerized, but you still need to physically file original documents.

Yeah, that is why there is a pending status put on immediately and the final comes about a day or so later.  All transactions are done electronically with paper to follow.  Has been that way for close to a decade.  

[katmai]

Fucking Canucks, always killing threads.

[crazy canuck]

You can only dine out on dumb Americans and their guns for so long.

[JonasSalk]

Having said that, this over-active attitude (call it vigilantism or whatever) rarely comes out of a vacuum.  I'd be willing to bet that this neighborhood in question had seen an increase in burglaries. is lily ass white and not used to seeing black people.

Edited for clarity. And reality.

The wife is white.

[derspiess]

What makes you think the neighbors have personally seen an increase in burglaries?

That's often the back black story for incidents like this.

Edited for clarity.  And reality.  Again.

So what's the Blackuweather forecast for tomorrow?

[Ed Anger]

What makes you think the neighbors have personally seen an increase in burglaries?

That's often the back black story for incidents like this.

Edited for clarity.  And reality.  Again.

So what's the Blackuweather forecast for tomorrow?

RAIN!

[Razgovory]

Having said that, this over-active attitude (call it vigilantism or whatever) rarely comes out of a vacuum.  I'd be willing to bet that this neighborhood in question had seen an increase in burglaries. is lily ass white and not used to seeing black people.

Edited for clarity. And reality.

The wife is white.

So that's why they were so quick to pull guns.  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24prom-t.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1

Intermarriage between whites and blacks is repulsive and averse to every sentiment of pure American spirit. It is abhorrent and repugnant. It is subversive to social peace. It is destructive of moral supremacy, and ultimately this slavery to black beasts will bring this nation to a fatal conflict."   Seaborn Roddenberry Congressmen from Georgia.

[CountDeMoney]

What makes you think the neighbors have personally seen an increase in burglaries?

That's often the back black story for incidents like this.

Edited for clarity.  And reality.  Again.

So what's the Blackuweather forecast for tomorrow?

Don't hate me because I'm enlightened. 

[Maximus]

IMO the fact they are breaking into a house, at night, with no key or proof of ownership constitutes reasonable and probable grounds to arrest for break and enter.

Rememebr grounds for arrest are not the same as proof to obtain a conviction.

I missed the part where they didn't have a key. Do you have more information than is in the article? Would you agree that if they did have a key it was rather strange to arrest them?

I mean if I see someone going into a house the first thing I think isn't that they must be burglars.

[Barrister]

IMO the fact they are breaking into a house, at night, with no key or proof of ownership constitutes reasonable and probable grounds to arrest for break and enter.

Rememebr grounds for arrest are not the same as proof to obtain a conviction.

I missed the part where they didn't have a key. Do you have more information than is in the article? Would you agree that if they did have a key it was rather strange to arrest them?

I mean if I see someone going into a house the first thing I think isn't that they must be burglars.

Again, another assumption on my part.  But this one is a more fair assumption.  On a foreclosure they are much less likely to be given the keys by the people who were just foreclosed on.