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Originally Posted by Strictly Jake

Someone was once trying to break into my house and I rang the police and was on hold for ages it kept putting me through to barrow which is like an hour from where I live it's across the bay and barrow police were telling me that I rang the wrong team me and my wife were in the locked toilet very scared(this was way before we had kids don't worry) and noone was responding. I eventually rand my dad and brother in law who chased the guy away. The police turned up after annoyed that there wasn't a job for them to do. This was Morecambe police. Maybe it's time The bay TV show showed what Morecambe police are really like....

Oh if someone is in YOUR HOME by all means dropkick them down the stairs, that's a very different scenario!

The police are lucky it ended well though. When I was about 11 there was an attempted robbery on my street and the dad of the house in question was stabbed and died . It was a "nice" area too, a HUGE shock for the street. Also, a late-teen from across the street was charged with GBH because he chased the perp down the street and hit him across the head with a golf club. He was cleared in court thankfully because of the circumstances (what with the GBH victim himself being up on a murder charge and all) but it does show some of the inherent risks of taking things into your own hands. He (technically) shouldn't have pursued and attacked the fleeing perpetrator.