As we say, "don't use force, get a bigger hammer".I have to say that trying to explain what you are doing at 1am in a house occupied by a couple of seventy-year olds, having somehow 'fallen in' as you walked by might be difficult. Most judges see it the way that the homeowners tell it, I hafta say. Besides, getting into the average house over here without insider help is not as easy as it is in much of the USA - I can literally walk into the homes of any of our friends in the USA, calling out as I do so, of course. Such behaviour is completely foreign in most of the yUK except in the Western Highlands of Scotland and perhaps rural part of The Dales and Cumbria. However, walking into THIS -
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is a LOT more likely.
Have you actually thought about how to break into a house here in yUK, with our double or triple glazing and seven-lever deadbolt doors that lock into the door frame when closed? Quietly?
Take a look -