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Is it legally possible to kick someone's ass if they egg your house?

legally no you can beat them the crap out of them. I believe you are only allow to one up some one if they are attacking you. If they come at you with fist you may go to something like a bat knife. if they have knife you can go to a gun.

I know it sucks. Pretty much you have to have proof (picture finger prints and so on) who did it to do anything legally. Because otherwise it is your word vs there word and you can not prove it.
 
All i know is, egging houses is old. Kids/people need to mix it up a bit i think. if i were to do it, i would use something more hilarious such as maybe steaks, hamburger meat balls, dead fish, or something of the short. Then when the people came out thinking the house was egged they would just see a large slab of beef on there porch. any other thoughts on more comical/original items to throw? or throw back?
 
stubeeef said:
get a paint gun, you know the attack kind for wargaming.

Next time waste them with an automatic shower of neon pink, then call the police and tell them which ones to look for.
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I did that, needless to say they came back the next night and once again got shot at. I think they learned after that.
 
Timepass said:
legally no you can beat them the crap out of them. I believe you are only allow to one up some one if they are attacking you. If they come at you with fist you may go to something like a bat knife. if they have knife you can go to a gun.
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What the hell is a bat knife?

More importantly, I agree, chase after the little bastards. If one doesn't get off your property while the others are running, beat the piss out of him and say "He was on my property and threatened to kill me." :)
 
WillMak said:
My house and car got egged last night. I was actually in the living room when it happened and thought it was like a robber trying to get in when I heard the thuds. So I wasated about 10 minutes with a baseball bat to see what would happen next. After ahwile the noises stopped and I realised it was probably just some kids being jackasses. If this occurs again I'm rushing out right away. So if this happens again, what would have happen if I rushed out the door and beat whoever's face is outside to a bloody pulp? Would I get in any sort of legal trouble?
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i am only a law student, and what i studied in college was labor and empoyment law for my ba, but it doesn't take a genius to realize that the job of dealing with "eggers" is for the cops, not you

i sympathize with you...once years ago i was a working for a month for christmas season in a retail store of a fortune 500 company, and this man came in with his kids and started assualting his children right then and there...he was either drunk or high on drugs

by law, we couldn't do anything about it, or he would sue our multi-billion dollar corporation...so the manager of the store just let it happen...it was sad, and the only thing he was able to legally do was call mall security or the city cops...but nobody who worked there had any legal recourse to intervene
 
commonpeople said:
Actually, the above posters are wrong. Hartfield vs Penrose 1973- it's perfectly legal to murder children for throwing an egg at your house. Trust me, I'm a legal expert and I wouldn't write my legal opinion on the internet unless I had 100% confidence.

The police and courts can't lay a finger on you for this one. Just you see.
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pm me a six part standard legal memorandum on this... :)
 
jefhatfield said:
by law, we couldn't do anything about it, or he would sue our multi-billion dollar corporation...so the manager of the store just let it happen...it was sad, and the only thing he was able to legally do was call mall security or the city cops...but nobody who worked there had any legal recourse to intervene
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Why not?

Well.......tough spot. Now that I think about it, I guess you couldn't go over there and start whacking the dad over the head with a chair or something, since your store would get sued, but your customers surely could have. That's what I'd hope would happen.......someone steps up and starts beating the man with an object and you just let it happen. You're powerless, after all.

Anyway, I don't understand why you can't legally stop him from beating his kids. Surely you could hold him back. He's their father, but beating kids is illegal, as is beating anyone up.
 
I don't want to know what i would do if someone egged my car. that stuff destroys paint, and I am even more obsessive about keeping my car perfect then my Mac. Let's just say that 4 D-cell maglight i keep in my car would get some good use. I generally hate violence, but i don't spend hours a week, and hundreds of dollars a year keeping my car pristine just for some dumb punk who thinks he's being cool to completely ruin all of that.

fortunately, it has yet to happen to me with this car; it once happened way back in high school with my first car, but that car wasn't worth much more than the eggs :p

but yea, basically, i don't see any way you wouldn't get in trouble attacking an egger, and unless you have alot on him (video, license etc...), i doubt he would ever get in any trouble. just one more thing to add to the list of why i hate this country. :rolleyes:
 
jefhatfield said:
i am only a law student, and what i studied in college was labor and empoyment law for my ba, but it doesn't take a genius to realize that the job of dealing with "eggers" is for the cops, not you

i sympathize with you...once years ago i was a working for a month for christmas season in a retail store of a fortune 500 company, and this man came in with his kids and started assualting his children right then and there...he was either drunk or high on drugs

by law, we couldn't do anything about it, or he would sue our multi-billion dollar corporation...so the manager of the store just let it happen...it was sad, and the only thing he was able to legally do was call mall security or the city cops...but nobody who worked there had any legal recourse to intervene
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Ok. Im sorry but that is by far the most disgusting Lazy ass american thing I have ever read. Im disgusted.

You should, and even if you didnt get off your fat ass and go help those kids then somebody should have. To hell with your job. You can get a new one, hell, You would have probably received a raise, or even been profiled by the news and offerred a better job. No judge would ever allow this guy to try his case in his courtroom. You could have pulled this guy off his kids, declared a citizens arrest, and called the cops. No need to whup the guys ass - but you sat there and watched some guy thump on his kids like it was a damn reality television show. There is a special place reserved in hell for people like you. This guy probably continues this behavior all the time at home, if he's comfortable enough to do it in a crowded store, and thank goodness you were there to watch. You really make all of us very proud of you.

In a civilized society it is EVERYONES responsibility to stand for those who can defend themselves and you are just as pathetic as a child abusing idiot for not getting involved.

I hope you can sleep at night knowing you kept you $8/hr job as a santa or cashier or whatever it was you were doing. Apathy is by far the most infuriating thing I can imagine, especially with child abuse.

If you want to reply to this, dont even bother. Just PM me and I'll paypal ya 8 bucks and you can feel like you accomplished something - and you won't even have to lift a finger.

Loser.
 
D0ct0rteeth said:
I hope you can sleep at night knowing you kept you $8/hr job as a santa or cashier or whatever it was you were doing. Apathy is by far the most infuriating thing I can imagine, especially with child abuse.

If you want to reply to this, dont even bother. Just PM me and I'll paypal ya 8 bucks and you can feel like you accomplished something - and you won't even have to lift a finger.

Loser.
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not about the job. ok.

when another employee and i saw the disturbance, i contacted my manager and he deemed it "nothing" that bad...when the disturbed man continued, i alerted the manager again, who was with the district manager, and the manager told us we should not intervene, and couldn't...and the district manager refused to leave his office

i suggested mall security or the police...the manager refused

later, when the situation cooled down, the father, typical of molesters, hugged the kids and it was all over and everybody was hunky dory...fine..but it didn't sit right with me

when i told the returning assistant manager what i saw, he said he would have beat up the man who was the perpetrator...i quit the job and the told the manager it was because of the incident
 
1. Find Dog
2. Scoop of dog's "waste" (aka poop)
3. Place waste in brown paper bag
4. Place bag infront of enemie's front door
5. Set bag on fire
6. Ring doorbell and run

That's all you really gotta do my friend ;). Hey it sounds pretty ingenius at 8:14 in the morning.
 
Gunfire is not a good thing. In most towns, its illegal to even discharge a gun within city limits. So if you fire a shotgun to scare them off, even if its in the air, the cops can arrest you for illegal discharge of a firearm.

Check with your local ordinance to see if its possible...
 
I'll take it from the fact you're even asking us for advice means you live in the UK. Unfortunately the kids that cause the most trouble are also the first ones to go running to the Police if you lay a finger on them. Your best strategy is to egg the little ***** back. Get them right on their chavvy hoodie tops. Use ink too. That way they have to explain to Mummy how their clothes got ruined. With any luck she'll do the battering for you.
 
In certain states in america you could legally shoot them for being on your property.

Some states they have to be breaking into your house before you can kill them.

However i would not recommend doing that.

Anyways i would do anything and would just clean it up and not care.
 
jefhatfield said:
not about the job. ok.

when another employee and i saw the disturbance, i contacted my manager and he deemed it "nothing" that bad...when the disturbed man continued, i alerted the manager again, who was with the district manager, and the manager told us we should not intervene, and couldn't...and the district manager refused to leave his office

i suggested mall security or the police...the manager refused

later, when the situation cooled down, the father, typical of molesters, hugged the kids and it was all over and everybody was hunky dory...fine..but it didn't sit right with me

when i told the returning assistant manager what i saw, he said he would have beat up the man who was the perpetrator...i quit the job and the told the manager it was because of the incident
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cool deal. Cheers for geting involved though. I wouldnt have been as calm as you, obviously. But I'll retract the "special place in hell comment" and the harsh tone of my comments.

Man, they are just kids - and there is no way in the world I could have handled it as rationally as you did.

Peace.
 
D0ct0rteeth said:
cool deal. Cheers for geting involved though. I wouldnt have been as calm as you, obviously. But I'll retract the "special place in hell comment" and the harsh tone of my comments.

Man, they are just kids - and there is no way in the world I could have handled it as rationally as you did.

Peace.
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thanks...he he...for a second i thought you were going to go at me on this forum like former members spikey or alphatech ;) (from the very old days of macrumors when flamewars were the norm)

back then in 2000-2001, i volunteered myself as sort of an unofficial moderator between spikey and his lot and john123/kela/alphatech, to help blakespot the administrator then, but then both sides wanted to tar and feather me...good thing they were mostly all the way back in london though

then came wdlove, and he became the ultimate peacemaker here...i miss him a lot

but both spikey, and i think alphatech are back here as reinvented kinder and gentler members of macrumors :)

peace,

jef
 
jefhatfield said:
thanks...he he...for a second i thought you were going to go at me on this forum like former members spikey or alphatech ;) (from the very old days of macrumors when flamewars were the norm)

back then in 2000-2001, i volunteered myself as sort of an unofficial moderator between spikey and his lot and john123/kela/alphatech, to help blakespot the administrator then, but then both sides wanted to tar and feather me...good thing they were mostly all the way back in london though

then came wdlove, and he became the ultimate peacemaker here...i miss him a lot

but both spikey, and i think alphatech are back here as reinvented kinder and gentler members of macrumors :)

peace,

jef
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I remember the Alphatech and Spiky days well. Mon frere'

ahhh.memories.

- Doc
 
eva01 said:
In certain states in america you could legally shoot them for being on your property.
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that reminds me of the saturday night live skit where eddie murphy goes to a white neighborhood and stands on the lawns of the residents

and eddie murphy, also playing another character, dressed in heavy makeup as the white landowner, yells: "oi veh, hey schwatze, get off my lawn"

my jewish wife once dated an african american man from the south bronx in her teens and she literally encountered incidents like that in new york with her not so liberally minded father

i also loved eddie murphy's multi ethnic barbershop characters all getting into a row over the greatness, or lack of, of rocky marciano :) ...funny stuff, indeed...very edgy for its time, but nonetheless very funny

the black community would draw an acceptable line of conscience and taste, and so would the white community...and then here comes 19 year old eddie murphy to break down all barriers and insult everybody, equally

but i am glad he did the more innocent dr. doolittle series aimed at children
 
eva01 said:
In certain states in america you could legally shoot them for being on your property.
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Ummmm, are you sure about that? Even with the Make My Day law, there has to be some sort of justifiable reason to blow someones head off.

So if I live in one of the states where its legal to cap people for being on your property I'm going to need a lot of amo this Halloween...
 
being that I am for the death penalty for parking violations, I think you ought to escalate till somewhere in the realm of Nukes! Or egg the everlivin **** out of their house and cars, fill the yard with large animal dung, and put a large sign in the yard calling them Kanigits!
 
Perhaps a teflon coating for your house?:D

Personally I'd try for photographs. Any gun or weapon you use can be used against you by a prosecutor, even if it's "only" a paintball or BB gun.

Or just egg 'em back if you're sure who it is. They can't do much about it you know...
 
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