Justice and Punishment in Maryland

[PygmyPlaidGiraffe]

"I was caught stealing gas."


interesting


I wonder if Enron executives and Corperate CEOs and accountant firms that are indicted would have to wear sandwich boards; or would this kind of punsihment only be reserved only for those that don't engage in white coller crime?

 

[PygmyPlaidGiraffe]

more weird news

Extreme Enforcement

Woman handcuffed, searched and held ... for three hours

for eating chocolate bar.

Metro's police force has been ridiculed for what some say is extreme enforcement of its no-eating rules. In 2000, a police officer handcuffed a 12-year-old girl for eating a french fry on a subway platform.

Transit police also gained a degree of infamy in 2002 when one of their officers ticketed a wheelchair-bound cerebral palsy patient who cursed when he was unable to find a working elevator to exit the system. Unflattering publicity eventually led the police to void the ticket.

 

[TragicMonkey]

I'm in favor of imaginative but cheap punishment for crime. For example, I suggest that anyone caught throwing litter from their car should be forced to eat whatever they threw out. Except for lit cigarettes--those should be relit, then extinguished on the offender's eyeball first.

And while it's nuts to have arrested the candy-bar woman for making a remark, I have to say the woman's a fool to herself. Making that particular comment to a cop is just asking for trouble.

 

[Bikewer]

In response to nuisance complaints on the local bus service, a list of ordinances was drawn up prohibiting loud music, profanity, smoking, and eating on the Bi-State buses.

Initial enforcement was handled by a "task force" of plainclothes officers who would ride the buses, looking for violators. One crew used to make their arrests at the stop in front of our old department adress on a major route.

One day they came in with a little old lady who they had busted for eating peanuts. This major arrest made the local papers and TV news, and the "task force" was allowed to quietly fade away.