# Best Strategy if You've Just Killed an Intruder

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-strategy-if-youve-just-killed-an-intruder/665438>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 5, 2013, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-strategy-if-youve-just-killed-an-intruder/665438 "2013-08-05T21:24:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-strategy-if-youve-just-killed-an-intruder/665438/101 "2013-08-14T04:00:16Z")

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> [@Crafter\_Man](#):
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> I stand by my assertion that you should use the word “stop,” and not “kill.” Reason being… even if it was a good shoot, there’s still a decent chance I will be criminally prosecuted or sued in civil court. I can hear the prosecutor now: “So, Crafter\_Man, you stated your intent was to kill Mr. Johnson. Is that correct? You wanted to _ **kill** _ him, and not merely _stop_ him?” Far fetched? I don’t know. But why take the chance? Instead my story (which is the truth) will be that I wanted to stop him as quickly as possible, and I used the most effective tool at my disposal to do so.

Added this to the potential repertoire - thanks! “I was in fear for my life and my family, and I stopped the perp.”

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**Author:** ![JLRogers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@JLRogers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JLRogers)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-strategy-if-youve-just-killed-an-intruder/665438/102 "2013-08-14T08:17:47Z")

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> [@11811](#):
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> Yeah, but we need an rmdb (real-life database), not the imdb.🙂

Would a [wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke) suffice?

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**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-strategy-if-youve-just-killed-an-intruder/665438/103 "2013-08-14T12:04:52Z")

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> [@JLRogers](#):
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> Would a [wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke) suffice?

I LOL’d.

But if he wanted a Real-Life case of that, on pg. 2 of this thread, I did link to a guy who thought that grilling his fiancee on his Weber was the way to do it. It didn’t work, but made for decent black comedy.

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