Your daily dose of stupid

Britain, it seems, has decided. . oh, why the hell not. . .just let the burglars go on and take your stuff. It's too hard to prosecute them, so the courts are instructed to let them go. No, really:

The Sentencing Advisory Panel called for judges and magistrates not to hand down prison sentences to ordinary burglars who were responsible for 'minimal loss or damage'.

What could go wrong? It's not like burglars will maim or kill anyone if they're discovered, and more and more it seems like home owners are prosecuted for fighting back.

The destruction of that society is nasty to watch. I'm hoping it won't be us in the not to distant future.

(H/T Ace)