There have been such a case in New Zealand, which is a pretty much agriculture based country. There have been several cases where police took 51 minutes to turn up and so on. farm thefts are rampant
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?ObjectID=10120194 ( A farmer had to sell his land to fight a case when he shot at thieves on his remote farm)
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?ObjectID=10127488
It seems that the British were debating whether to change the law as well
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