# Characters who got a slap on the wrist but deserved much more (spoilers about Eureka and Torchwood)

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**Created:** [July 20, 2009, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-got-a-slap-on-the-wrist-but-deserved-much-more-spoilers-about-eureka-and-torchwood/503570 "2009-07-20T00:09:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![raspberry\_hunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@raspberry\_hunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raspberry_hunter)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-got-a-slap-on-the-wrist-but-deserved-much-more-spoilers-about-eureka-and-torchwood/503570/81 "2009-07-28T20:42:29Z")

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Fred and George in Harry Potter. Don’t get me wrong, I love them and think they’re marvelous characters, but, uh, shoving a fellow student into a cabinet from which he may not be found for _weeks_ should have got them some sort of attempted murder charge.

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**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-got-a-slap-on-the-wrist-but-deserved-much-more-spoilers-about-eureka-and-torchwood/503570/82 "2009-07-29T22:50:32Z")

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Witness the latest Eureka. A guy places blinky cubes around the town and get suspended while a person who steals a law officer’s body, almost killing her and she gets probation.

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-got-a-slap-on-the-wrist-but-deserved-much-more-spoilers-about-eureka-and-torchwood/503570/83 "2009-07-30T03:19:14Z")

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I see myself as occupying a somewhat-less-nerdlicher position by, though I understood the “Torchwood” reference, being without a clue regarding everything else in this thread. Yeah, I could pick up enough from personal knowledge and context to know what you meant, but I prefer to go with that “without a clue” statement, inaccurate as it may be.

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