Re: Thank you.
Swim having read all the posts and you replies I feel the need to offer some serious advice.
1) You often let us know that you receive a reasonably good income, so surely you have home contents insurance that would cover the loss of your mower
2) If criminals are younger and stronger than you and you look in such poor health it is unlikely that they will run away. They are more likely to return the beating and make off with the mower, if it was so important to them, so why risk further injury and poor health by attacking them?
3) The Police may take a while to get there, but if a crime has been reported they have to investigate and, with the description you could give them, they may well catch these men.
4) The criminals are likely to be local men, or somebody who has a serious grudge against you, because burglars don't travel a distance to pinch a mower. They would have had a large van to transport it, so I expect that if they were just burglars they would have stolen from a few other houses .....giving the police a better chance of catching them.....A much better outcome than you being taken to court for harming them.
Violence is only approved of , in court, if it is used in
self defence not defence of your property!