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“Reasonable“ it pretty tricky to define in the moment, as reasonable for the employee might not be reasonable to the bystander or a jurymember who wasn’t there.
Juries are almost invariably very sympathetic towards people who defend their own property. It really is only the Tony Martinesque outliers - shoot a thief in the back with a double-barrelled shotgun as he's running away - where they tend to lose sympathy. It'd be nice to think we could rely on the police to enforce law and order, but sadly that is no longer the case.
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Thanks for that. “Reasonable“ it pretty tricky to define in the moment, as reasonable for the employee might not be reasonable to the bystander or a jurymember who wasn’t there. Plus, no item is worth getting slashed with a crankset. Best just to let the police deal with it.
Oh wait...