Good to know, I was told by a cop friend when I told him that story that what I had done was illegal. How about this one. When I got my first apartment in college my parking space was about 10 feet away from my front door. About 3:00am one morning my alarm went off and I dashed out the door with the nearest thing I could grab. When I opened the door I found three guys standing around my Jeep (unfortunately again they were Hispanic). They all bolted (maybe it was because I was wearing a pair of boxers and an AK47) I chased them for two blocks. What would be the legality on that one? Being a little older, wiser, and a little heavier I would not have chased them now. I was 19 at the time.