Posted on 03/21/2022 4:04:26 PM PDT by Phoenix8
Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.
My brother had my car once. He called and asked “So if the car happens to go airborne and a red light comes on the dash that reads TURBO BOOST, does that mean anything bad?”
I respond “No Dave. That just means you’ve overheated the turbocharger and it needs to cool off for a bit. But DAVE, it’s customary to let off the gas a bit when you do take my car airborne.”
How can an article headlined “LAPD Names Person of Interest” and which repeats that in the narrative, fail to tell us ... the name of the person of interest? Give Pilar Arias the Pulitzer she deserves.
Accessory to the crime !
—” It’s worth it to them to destroy a $50,000 car and earn $200,000 in views.”
Or maybe not.
How many YouTube views does it take to make $1,000?
Based on industry averages, you’ll need about 500,000 views to earn $1,000 from ads. The cost per thousand (CPM) works out to be $2 per 1,000 impressions.
And yet that little green VW kept getting ahead of them.
To all sentient people, they’re still NOT a thing.
It was Herbie’s cousin.
This is the man with a kids brain, it appears.
Trying to think of an appropriate punishment. Perhaps this one:
1. 90 days in the LAPD jail.
2. On release he has to clean up LA transient waste (a say 10 hours a day at 15 dollars an hour) and wear an ankle monitor until he pays off the KBB value (or repair costs) of the car.
What do you think?
(first video)
Reminds of that 1970s cop TV show, The Streets of San Francisco.
Can’t see the video — some sort of login required.
Preferred punishment:
1> Rather than waste money on incarceration, severe caning for 30 minutes each day for 90 days. I’m sure the LA jail has inmates ready to do the job. Post video of the punishment on social media, with captions explaining how this came to be.
2> Pay full restitution for damages and cost to the public dealing with his case.
3> The cleaning up transient waste is a good idea, but cut the pay to $15 per day, less the cost of watching him.
Well, if they are going to be caning them, and they do it like they do in Singapore, you’ve sentenced them to death. Doing it once is bad enough-every day for 30 days? Overkill.
And, even if they survive, the rest of the punishment will certify that they will be doing time for the rest of their life.
You know seriously I’ve always thought caning/whipping should be brought back.
The idea is it’s “cruel and unusual” punishment so it won’t even be considered.
So let’s look at what is cruel and unusual. A young guy with a family gets drunk and steals, or maybe gets in a fight and then breaks a few windows.
1. So called just and “humane” punishment is say a year in jail. What happens in that year?
Wife likely cheats on him or leaves him (i think the statistic is a majority leave spouses in well under 5 years)
Loss of his job, difficulty in getting a new one.
Loss of property
Kids get a new daddy that at best neglects them at worst abuses them
Basically his life as it was might be over
2. “cruel and unusual”, 30 lashes with a whip followed by a 24 hour stint in a pillory.
Guy will NEVER likely do that again (due to real pain and humiliation he suffered), still has his family, job and a life. The whole incident is nothing more than a painful lesson in a few weeks with a little antibiotic lotion on his back and a scar or two.
So which is really cruel and inhumane?
Incarceration is expensive and inefficient. The inmates are victimized and abused by others. They have to learn to be extremely tough, and often join themselves to a faction for protection. They learn criminal kills and make connections that follow them out. For some, being in jail or “juvee” is a rite of passage they brag about. Much better to whip’pem good. It’s cheap, darned unpleasant, humiliating (”I got caned until I wet myself and cried for mama” isn’t cool), doesn’t require job and spouse loss, doesn’t send the perp to crime school, not much exposure to covid, drug, rape, etc. Leave the jails for the hard-core criminals.
Of course, it would save billions of $ of public expense, so there is no chance.
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