hademall
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Different times, different rules.Not only would that get your ass sued, and you renounced by your insurance company, but it will also get you ten years behind bars!
Under the CRIMES ACT 1958 - SECT 26:
http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/consol_act/ca195882/s26.html
On that note though, back around 1982/83, I put a guy in hospital who I caught trying to steal my car.
The police for warned me that if the guy wanted to press charges, they would charge me with grievous bodily harm. (He had a broken nose, a dislocated shoulder, and bruised ribs)
Here’s the thing;- I had just gotten home from a night shift and taken off my boots, when my wife suddenly shouted there was a guy getting into our car. I ran outside, bare footed mind you, and approached the guy asking him what the f@#k was he doing in my car. (He was a thickset guy, about forty years old and seemingly well dressed). He replied that he had made a mistake, and that he had the same type of car. Now here’s the funny bit depending on how you look at it. My car was a 1974 Volvo 244DL and I’d recently re-sprayed it with a Ford colour called Terracotta. There was no way in the world there would have been any Volvo this colour, but mine.
So in my mind he has now made two mistakes, in trying to steal my car and then bullshitting me about having the same car. I then said to him, knowing my wife would be ringing the police at that moment, that he should give me his keys and that we will let the police sort it out.
Needless to say, he did not comply with my demand, so I head-butted him on the nose, consequently breaking it. Thinking that this would take the wind out of his sails so to speak, allowing me to grapple him to the ground and therefore make a citizen’s arrest, was an under-estimation! As he reeled backwards and before I could grab him, he suddenly came back at me with his car key protruding between the fore finger and index finger of his right hand in his fist, trying to punch me.
The ensuing fight didn’t end well for him as I described above. I eventually got him to the ground face down, where I pushed his arm so far up his back, it dislocated his shoulder.
The police arrived within a minute or so of me restraining the guy.
Conclusion. The guy’s car was parked up the road, it was a green British Leyland Princess or something.
Apparently he was visiting a neighbour opposite, it was Valentines Day and he’d left a gift on her doorstep. The police thought it might have been a bomb FFS!
He was apparently very confused, the police said he did also own a Volvo and he won’t be pressing charges, so I should think myself lucky.
Moral of the story:- Don’t f@#k with a terracotta coloured Volvo!