[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by lostalex

If you are woken up in the middle of the night, to someone intruding into your house, how do you know their intentions?? how do you know if they are just trying to steal an ipod? or to rape your daughter? what drugs is he on? how would you know? and how much time would you take to decide?

well, in short you wouldn't but are you going to take a risk that it may just be a friendly intruder wanting to steal your ipod and then regret that fact that your daughter was raped because you gave the intruder the benefit of the doubt?

How much time would it take me to decide? no idea, I have never been in the situation (thank God) and couldn't even hazard a guess at my reaction times if I were.