Exercise: Link Is Seen Between Crime and Fitness

The NY Times ^ | June 17, 2008 | ERIC NAGOURNEY

[Rammer]

You sir, are mostly correct.

The BMI is a useless number, you’re right.

However, you are wrong in the usefulness of this study and it’s printing on toilet paper. All that would do is ruin perfectly good toilet paper and make it useless.

[Stirner]

You are probably right, based on your experience, about body-builders being self-centered, but I wonder if obvious fitness has an effect on jurors and judges. What I mean is if two different people were guilty of the same crime, might decision makers go harder on people who appear physically intimidating compared to those who are small or fat? If you look like people's stereotype of a scary criminal, you are at a disadvantage. If you look inoffensive, out of shape, or like a “nice guy”, you may not wind up in jail, for the same behavior.

[boop]

I could tell you this just by watching a random episode of COPS. The perp is always some thin guy without his shirt wearing acid washed jeans.

[apocalypto]

LOL

And then there is the high crime rate among NFL and NBA players.

[Marie2]

Yes, most drug addicts are thin, too.

So the study shows drug addicts in their 20s are most likely to commit a crime.

You don’t say.

[TKDietz]

They have low body mass because so many of them are meth heads. They fatten up while in prison and then start tweaking again when they get out and by the time they are arrested and imprisoned again they'll be back to having low body mass.