You are an average everyday court clerk. You hear every case from the most ludicrous to the extremely vicious. You hear about children being molested, women being beaten with-in an inch of their lives, and old ladies getting taken advantage of in their retirement homes…the list goes on and on.
Then one day you snap. You decide to take the court records you have access to and go out and start punnishing the eveil doers who are commiting these crimes.
You show up at their homes or hunt them down somewhere in society. You positively identify the perpetrator and then proceed to discreetly beat the snot out of them. Torture the torturer, reap havoc on the molestor, beat the one who beats and pummel the ones who hurt the children.
QUESTION:
This makes you a criminal too?
If you hurt a person who beats their children or wife, you are then an automatic criminal?
What laws are their regarding vililantism?
I’m not talking superhero stuff here. I’m talking real world scenerios. Are vigilante laws really out there regulating or or vigilante’s looked over by the eye of the law?
Yes, by law it makes you a criminal. It would be different if you caught the perp in the act of hurting someone & had to administer a bit if whoop-ass to get them to stop. Even then, however, you’re still likely to be skating the thin ice. Ever watch Cops? How many women have you seen with two black eyes and split lips begging the police not to arrest their poor dear wife-beating husbands? Even when just trying to stop the act, the simple samaritan has to be careful.
Yes but those women are not vilgilante’s they are the victims. And the reason they are saying don’t arrest my beating husband is most likely because he will just come home after 24 hours and do it again, or make them live in a living hell…
I do understand what your saying, and its bull that people stopping a crime could be held responsible for a crime if they whoop-up on them a little… Makes no sense to me…
In Britain only reasonable force can be used to stop a crime. This was reinforced recently by the jailing of a farmer who shot two burglars in his home (they were allegedly fleeing at the time).