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The Guardian - Three Little Pigs

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Policeman:  Little Pig!  Little Pig!  Let us in.  It's the police! ... Move!

Reporter:  The third Little Pig is now being taken into custody.  So, the spotlight is once again shone on the grey area of homeowners' rights to protect their properties.

Viewer1: This isn't right.   The Three Little Pigs are the victims.

Viewer2:  The wolf blew down two houses.  He got what he deserved.

General Internet chatter as the story goes viral:-

 ... but the pigs went too far.  You have every right to defend your property.  Keep your chinny chin chins up fellas...

Presenter:  Boiling someone alive, hardly constitutes reasonable force.

General chatter:

You can't protect yourself in your own home.  

A man's home is his castle.  

If someone tried to blow my house down, I'd do the same.

I knew the wolf, there's no way he could have blown down those houses.  He had asthma.

Reporter:  The wolf had asthma, so what's the truth about the pigs' houses being blown down?  Inside job?

Expert Witness:  There's no reason why those two houses, one made from straw, the other from wood, should have collapsed.  Not even a healthy wolf's huff and puff could bring them down.

Police Spokesperson:  The Three Little Pigs have confessed to conspiring to commit insurance fraud, framing the Wolf in an attempt to cover their tracks.  Their motive was financial as they struggled to keep up with their mortgage repayments.

Judge: Guilty.

General chatter:-

I'm behind on payments too.  

How could this have happened?

I've lost everything.

!Note - The Guardian is a leading British newspaper.  

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