People get killed for a lot less than that every day. I guess shooting someone for boosting parts off your car is still grounds for justifiable homicide in the Wild West. Don't try that here in IL, because if you do, you're going inside for quite a while. When you say in court "I feared for my life," (which is what you say), it has to be reasonable. The connection between that statement and the hood being stolen off your truck is going to be a hard one to make.....
It's not a screw-up on VW or the settlement peoples end. There are people in this forum talking about sending in the notarized offer letter, locking in a buyback appointment, and just not showing up.
If someone breaks into your house...they're fair game. However, Castle Doctrine does not extend to the depreciating heaps of metal in your driveway.
Google 'Stand Your Ground'.If someone breaks into your house...they're fair game. However, Castle Doctrine does not extend to the depreciating heaps of metal in your driveway.
You will be asked for your current mileage followed by asking you if you will be returning the car to the dealer you selected when you first registered. If you answer YES, you will see that dealers open appointments. If you answer NO, you will be asked for your zip code & the radius to search for other dealers. You can then view the other dealers open appointments for comparison prior to selection.
HaHa! You gave them some extra goodies. I wonder if some people will show up with a trunk full of crap that normal waste management companies won't take.
Yes. Some people want to strip their cars. But I am generous, and gave them a tire with some useful tread remaining. As they recondition cars for possible resale or donation, I figured they might find it useful.
I wonder what they would do if someone showed up with the car packed full of old clothes, bags of leaves, etc.?Yes. Some people want to strip their cars. But I am generous, and gave them a tire with some useful tread remaining. As they recondition cars for possible resale or donation, I figured they might find it useful.
If you want to pull a Zimmerman...have at it.
Exactly. I prefer to not get myself into bad situations that I can easily avoid.
Glad you have a check in hand for the correct amount
And criminal charges may not be the greatest challenge in the aftermath of such an event. If the person killed has any family at all, a civil suit is very likely, and the standards for conviction are much lower- only a preponderance of the evidence, rather than reasonable doubt. Then there's a very real risk of being stripped of every asset not protected by law.
I am guessing the crime rates are much lower in Texas than Illinois.
Zimmerman's case had nothing to do with "stand your ground" laws. Neither does shooting someone who's stealing your property.
This might clear things up for you: nation.time.com/2013/06/13/when-you-can-kill-in-texas/
This seems to be pretty far off topic.
These events, among others, came to my attention after googling 'stand your ground'.
But there have been a number of laws passed using that phrase as a description, and none of them are relevant to either of the scenarios mentioned in this thread. A "stand your ground" law states that if you are attacked in a place where you have a legal right to be, you don't have to run away before using force against your attacker. Whether the media is deliberately trying to connect those sorts of common-sense laws with the outrage surrounding scenarios like those discussed here, or whether they're just irredeemably stupid, is hard to tell.
This is a very real caveat. My brother works for the TSA at the SLC airport. Incidents several times a month where people have handguns in their carryons consistently demonstrate embarrassment, they simply forgot the guns were in there. So a good reminder might be to go through the car completely before turning it in, no matter what one thinks is in there......