Should it be legal to smash a car window to save an aniamal?

[lemons]

i cant believe you idiots would just sit there and watch a poor baby or animal melt to death

[GommeInc]

There are a few reasons it's best to keep it illegal. First, it's someone else's property (pretty obvious), the other is that the smashed glass may cause injury to the dog, yourself and those who may use the car park/place the car is in afterwards. The best thing to do is call the police or simply 101 for advice. The RSPCA may be a good idea but they won't respond as quickly as desired. You could argue you should act then and now, but a phone call to 101 really won't be that long.

Funnily enough, if the dog was a baby or a child it's perfectly fine to smash the glass. You may be liable for criminal damage but you can argue it's the best of two evils. Is it best to let a child/baby die or cause criminal damage? It comes under defence of necessity. It depends on if the baby looks as though it is on deaths door and it really is a spur of the moment act. You can't just smash the glass on a reasonably warm day. Obvious scenario is a supermarket car park - you inform the manager and/or the police.

[sexpot]

Nope, call the police, and if it was a situation dependent on time, I'd call 999.

I don't know what it's like there, but over here the police have an average response time of 10 minutes. Would you really wait potentially 10 minutes for the authorities to arrive?

[Kardan]

I don't know what it's like there, but over here the police have an average response time of 10 minutes. Would you really wait potentially 10 minutes for the authorities to arrive?

Depends on how much time I thought it was worth waiting for. There's a difference between a baby stuck in a car when it's 20 degrees outside, and a baby stuck in a car when it's 35.

[Yawn]

mess. if some1 who was simply uninformed about the dangers of hot cars and has left their dog or child they gna be more grateful to have saved their child/pets life than bothered that they have a smashed car window

heck if we going thru a heatwave a smashed car window will bring a nice breeze :Innocent:

[FlyingJesus]

i cant believe you idiots would just sit there and watch a poor baby or animal melt to death

Don't think anyone decided they'd pull up a chair and watch

[wordofwisdom]

i would if the rspca wouldn't do anything on arrive quickly or i'd phone the police however if it looked as if the animal was dying i'd smash the window

[akeel$]

i cant believe you idiots would just sit there and watch a poor baby or animal melt to death

this.
just smash the window grab the animal and wait for the person who owns the car to come back to teach them the lesson and how things work in the real world!

[Alkaz]

The window is replaceable, the life of the animal isn't.

[FlyingJesus]

Yeah it you can buy dogs