To quote QI, “Nobody knows”.
The linked article has the same image with this caption:
The farmer reportedly hog-tied the two ‘terrified’ males to the bike (Image: Facebook)
And later says:
When they returned the next day to retrieve the bike, the farmer, who was riding his quad bike at the time, tackled them to the floor and bound their hands, reports The Sun. Pictures shared widely on social media showed two hooded males unsecured but face down on the front and rear of the stationary vehicle.
I’m not checking whether The Sun has any source for the photo because it’s The Sun.
I don’t know what the situation is in the US but in the UK it is one of those things that “everyone knows” which everyone is mostly wrong about.
It is a thing but actually doing it without tipping over into false imprisonment is so difficult that the best advice is " If you’re thinking about whether to perform a citizen’s arrest, don’t".
Generally speaking, anyone talking about performing a citizen’s arrest is a good sign that they are an arsehole with authoritarian fantasies.
In this case he apparently secured the trespassers, phoned the police to tell them he’d done so (which might just about have been legally ok) - and then decided to take them to the police station himself.
