An American asked why people in the UK didn’t ‘just take over a castle’ and the answers were as quintessentially British as you’d expect

13.

‘Most English Heritage castles no longer have roofs. So there’s that.’
–katie-kaboom

14.

‘I’d choose Conwy. They cleverly built it so the railway line protects it from attackers. Completely impenetrable if you spread the wrong type of leaves on the line.’
–Crunchie64

15.

‘Nah, they’d just turn off any power and block your phone signals. You’d all cave within days if you couldn’t post on social media, play video games or order Deliveroos.’
–Zealousideal-Wash904

16.

‘Most castles in England and Wales were destroyed over 300 years ago. You can go sit on a cold ruin with no water if you like, or go piss off the Coldstream Guards at Windsor, see how far you get.’
–Fillbe

17.

‘Are we talking about a working castle currently owned and occupied? Replace the word heritage castle with any other type of building and ask yourself what would happen if a group of crackpots stormed and occupied it? Don’t get me wrong, watching the news would be a blast, but they ain’t gonna go easy in case they chip the carvings on the doorframe.’
–DivineDecadence85

18.

‘… and if it was National Trust they’d have that huge and angry team of old lady unpaid volunteers to make sure you didn’t sit on any of the chairs or touch anything.’
–Brilliant-Figure-149

19.

‘Where can we buy tickets?’
–burgertwot

20.

‘Why bother taking it with force? Just wait till night and scale the walls. The owners would then serve legal notice on you as any owner of property would do if someone was squatting in their property.

If as you say you took it by force, this would then be a criminal matter. For the Police to deal with, not the government. They would probably just wait for you to get hungry (Americans love their food) and come out of your own accord.’
–MLMSE

21.

‘They would use police negotiators to bore you into submission.’
–EldritchCleavage

22.

‘I actually tried this once and was moderately successful. The problem was they closed at 5pm so I had to leave so the staff could go home.’
–cregamon

23.

‘You’d need to protect it at the natural weak point of any castle these days – the gift shop.’
–Southern-Bandicoot

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