Police apologize to couple after refusing to seize stolen caravan because another family live in it - Polidicks

You do understand how Caravans work right? They could just fucking drive away and that'd be that since it's not being held.

[QUOTE=Paul McCartney;41765431]You do understand how Caravans work right? They could just fucking drive away and that'd be that since it's not being held.[/QUOTE] i'd love to see that in court "Ok the stolen property must be returned to it's rightful owner." "But sir, they haven driven away!" thus somehow making the law void? i don't understand how you think driving away will somehow make them outside the law's reach...

[QUOTE=_Maverick_;41765533]i'd love to see that in court "Ok the stolen property must be returned to it's rightful owner." "But sir, they haven driven away!" thus somehow making the law void? i don't understand how you think driving away will somehow make them outside the law's reach...[/QUOTE] They can't be fucking tracked down. Do you have any idea how easy it is to get fake plates?

[QUOTE=Paul McCartney;41765431]You do understand how Caravans work right? They could just fucking drive away and that'd be that since it's not being held.[/QUOTE] Well they obviously tracked them down once... They're just travelers not fucking agents.

[QUOTE=NoDachi;41765564]Well they obviously tracked them down once... They're just travelers not fucking agents.[/QUOTE] Again, they could move around. The police aren't going to be tailing them in choppers. You should be surprised at the amount of ground modern vehicles can cover when there's an interconnected series of roads.

[QUOTE=Paul McCartney;41765538]They can't be fucking tracked down. Do you have any idea how easy it is to get fake plates?[/QUOTE] quite easy i would imagine, but harder still to get away with using them. Police cars have very good equipment in dealing with such things, the scanner on each patrol car atupmaticly scans each car it sees and sends details to the DMV and if there is even the slightist hiccup, they pull you over.

The correct thing to do here is to inform the people living in the stolen caravan that it being returned to its legal owners and that they should find other accommodation by said date. The actual thief who stole the caravan should be hunted down, sentenced and ordered to pay back the money that the family paid for the caravan.

[QUOTE=Doozle;41764851]Good. As much as I feel for the caravans owners, you can't just make a family homeless[/QUOTE] they STOLE it

[QUOTE=Takoto;41767680]they STOLE it[/QUOTE] [quote]When police found the caravan last September a 22-year-old man was arrested but later released without charge after he produced evidence he had bought it in good faith from a man in a pub. Officers sought legal advice and sent the couple a letter explaining they could not seize it for a number of reasons, including a consideration that children were living in it.[/quote] fp are the same people that takes zimmerman's word that he was attacked first cause he said it, yet if a traveller said he simply bought it without knowing it was stolen or not, he's automatically bullshitting gg

[QUOTE=lolwutdude;41769716]fp are the same people that takes zimmerman's word that he was attacked first cause he said it, yet if a traveller said he simply bought it without knowing it was stolen or not, he's automatically bullshitting gg[/QUOTE] Have you ever known someone who bought a 30,000k vehicle at a pub? And how much did they pay for it again? Would pennies on the dollor be a good approximation? The average person in this situation would suspect its stolen... That is to say- its extremely hard to believe they didn't know their purchase was stolen.

[QUOTE=Aspen;41765016]so buying a stolen rv is legal[/QUOTE] i didnt say that, i said they didnt steal it

[QUOTE=_Maverick_;41765607]quite easy i would imagine, but harder still to get away with using them. Police cars have very good equipment in dealing with such things, the scanner on each patrol car atupmaticly scans each car it sees and sends details to the DMV and if there is even the slightist hiccup, they pull you over.[/QUOTE] Every patrol car? If only...

[QUOTE=Doozle;41764851]Good. As much as I feel for the caravans owners, you can't just make a family homeless[/QUOTE] It's their own damn fault for buying and relying on a bloody stolen caravan for a home, why should the caravan's owner be punished because they had their stuff stolen?

holy shit they're getting the caravan back it's going through the courts if the police forcibly evicted the family out of the camper that would be an [I]extreme[/I] overreach of power for the cops which would be a [B]very very[/B] bad thing. police should not have the power to evict someone, that power lies within the courts. calm the fuck down everyone

What are squatters rights, and why do they exist? Read about them a bit a while ago, they seem kind of... dumb, to say the least.

Let me sum up this entire thread: Liberals\People who are morally insane: You cannot make a family homeless. Normal people\People with good ethics: The caravan is stolen, it needs to be returned to its owner regardless of if someone is living there. [editline]9th August 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=evilweazel;41773832]What are squatters rights, and why do they exist? Read about them a bit a while ago, they seem kind of... dumb, to say the least.[/QUOTE] You won't say that if your one day homeless and have no where to live. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Shitpost/Didn't read the thread" - Megafan))[/highlight]

[QUOTE=NoDachi;41763724]I wish our police were more like America's sigh oh wait fuck that[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=NoDachi;41765034]They're not keeping it you hysterical dolt. Go find some other moral outrage to get unreasonably angry about on the internet - here you can start here: [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html[/url][/QUOTE] You're turning into a worse poster than even me, what's gotten into you?

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;41775222]You're turning into a worse poster than even me, what's gotten into you?[/QUOTE] I don't think you're a bad poster Napalm Then again I don't think NoDachi is a bad poster either so maybe my opinion isn't worth very much

honestly i wouldn't trust any police force in the world with the ability to evict people from their homes without taking it through court first. even if your police is the best in the world it's nonetheless an overreach of their power and it's more or less just a horrible incident waiting to happen.

[QUOTE=evilweazel;41773832]What are squatters rights, and why do they exist? Read about them a bit a while ago, they seem kind of... dumb, to say the least.[/QUOTE] They're a decent idea, but poorly implemented in the laws. Basically if you're a slum-fuck and you decide you want to live somewhere and trash someone's shit for free, you watch shit and if it's uninhabited for a short period of time, you break in and live in the place, then when the rightful owner comes back and is like, "What the fuck? This is my shit, get the fuck out!" You claim squatters rights like the entitled prick you are, and then you engage in a long legal battle to get evicted from the property you have been living on and trashing but don't own or even pay rent for. Once you're losing the battle, you trash the place and move on because you're a prick. [editline]9th August 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=BrickInHead;41773783]holy shit they're getting the caravan back it's going through the courts if the police forcibly evicted the family out of the camper that would be an [I]extreme[/I] overreach of power for the cops which would be a [B]very very[/B] bad thing. police should not have the power to evict someone, that power lies within the courts. calm the fuck down everyone[/QUOTE] This makes sense, but still, they should at least cease the property back, it [I]is[/I] stolen after all. I mean, let them still live there until the courts decide, but the police should at least secure the property because it's possible that they could run off with it, since they're bound to be evicted anyway.