When do you turn?

[Paul]

Confession time.
In an 80's winter, with no home, job, car, food, or dosh, alone, not even a dawg!
It only took me 24 hours before I entered my first squat.
I felt dreadful.
Always a sort of 'law abiding' type person, ex-forces, yet here I was joining the great unwashed.

BUT in doing this one act of criminality, I was eventually able to sort myself out and start again.

I know some will say, "never happen to me" or pull me apart.
I don't really care what folk think about what I did.
To me it was a question of survival.

Yet be honest and answer this question without telling me why it couldn't happen to you and what I should have done.

Just when would you personally abandon the "quaint UK laws" and start to look after yourself and your own without restraint?
At what point would you turn "FERAL".