REMEMBER THE CANING OF MICHAEL FAY TEN YEARS AGO?

The Associated Press | 2 April 1998

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) -- The young man who was caned in Singapore four years ago for allegedly vandalizing cars has been arrested in Florida on drug charges. Michael Fay, 22, was arrested at his apartment Tuesday by a deputy responding to neighbors' complaints about loud music. Fay, a student at Valencia Community College, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and less than 20 grams of marijuana. He was released Wednesday after posting $500 bond.

``I'm not going to lie to anybody. It was my mistake. I was smoking marijuana,'' Fay said later. In May 1994, Fay was flogged four strokes with a rattan cane on his bare buttocks for a vandalism conviction in Singapore, provoking outrage in this country. The nation's authoritarian government has been widely criticized for curbing civil liberties. Fay, who had been living in Singapore with his mother and stepfather, said he was beaten into confessing to a crime he didn't commit.

After returning to the United States, Fay was suffered burns to his hands and face in September 1994, and admitted he was burned while sniffing butane, a fuel used in cigarette lighters. He then went into drug rehabilitation for a butane habit.

Link to story about Michael Fay's caning:

Click here for Michael Fay story.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Excellent form of punishment. So, what is the latest news on Michael Fay? Does he have children? Where does he live? Standards of discipline should be administered evenly everywhere. If Americans misbehave, they should be soundly punished. If Islamic radicals misbehave, they should be punished. The punishment should be the same for all for like behaviors. Where is Michael Fay now?

[Huck]

I shot the sheriff.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Please keep this one with the additional link.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

I shot the sheriff.

LOL. This thread with the link to his story needs to be the one kept. Hope the admin deletes the other one and not this one.

[texasflower]

Excellent form of punishment? For one thing, it didn't seem to work.

For another, it's just wrong. It's torture.

[capydick]

Sounds like another Rodney King in the making.

[isom35]

what happened to make us want to remember fay?

[OldFriend]

Probably would have been more appropriate if they stripped him and made him wear ladies underwear on his head! Now that would have been real torture!

[dead]

After returning to the United States, Fay was suffered burns to his hands and face

They should cane the editor.

[Lizavetta]

In May 1994, Fay was flogged four strokes with a rattan cane on his bare buttocks for a vandalism conviction in Singapore, provoking outrage in this country. The nation's authoritarian government has been widely criticized for curbing civil liberties.

Fascinating.

Cane a brat and the liberals cry about civil liberties.

Run rape rooms, knock gays off buildings, feed humans to chipper shredders, dig huge holes and fill them with dead Iraqis, gas the Kurds, and what do you hear from the left?

(crickets chirping)

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Respectfully disagree. I believe it does work. I have yet to hear of individuals who have been caned repeating the behavior that caused them to be caned. Perhaps someone could look up Fay and interview him? Where is he?

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Cane a brat and the liberals cry about civil liberties.

Run rape rooms, knock gays off buildings, feed humans to chipper shredders, dig huge holes and fill them with dead Iraqis, gas the Kurds, and what do you hear from the left?

You nailed it with that one. How true.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

They did strip him. Bump this one ahead of the other thread which doesn't have the whole story link.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Everyone forgets.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Would you REALLY like to know what happened to make me remember him?

[dead]

Excellent form of punishment? For one thing, it didn't seem to work.

Judging from recidivism rates, prison doesn't seem to help much either.

Any fresh ideas on what to try next?

[muawiyah]

THe war crimes guy? The Dems like war criminals. Kerry has no problems with his base.

[texasflower]

No.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Run rape rooms, knock gays off buildings, feed humans to chipper shredders, dig huge holes and fill them with dead Iraqis, gas the Kurds, and what do you hear from the left?

Liberals crying about their civil liberties.