Hanging would be too good for these fuckers.

The BBQ Pit
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My sympathy goes out to the family of Robert Stanley, a 75 year old father, husband, and grandfather who was murdered by unknown assailants this past Saturday.

He was driving his bus down the freeway and was struck by a 14kg (30lb), basketball sized boulder that was dropped from an overpass. The perpetrators of this random act of horror had to cut through the chain link fence before they could commit this heinous act. Mr. Stanley managed to pull his bus to the side of the road and put on his four way flashers before he collapsed and died from his injuries. He should also be considered a hero for possibly saving the lives of many other people.

Although there have been many tips given to the police no arrests have been made.

I want to see the people who did this caught and punished beyond the fullest extent of our current laws. Imprisonment isn’t enough for these sad fucks. When the police find them I don’t think many people would mind turning their atttention elsewhere while our constabulary beats the ever loving fuck out of these folks. Hanging would be too good for them because it would be too short lived, they deserve to live a long life filled with torment and pain, just like Mr. Stanley’s widow, children, and grandchildren.

The perpetrators are likely teenagers and I enjoy the thought that they are probably hiding somewhere, scared shitless that they will be caught and sent to prison where they will be passed around the general population like candy.

His four sons were supposed to be going on a fishing trip with him tomorrow but instead, they will be attending his funeral.

http://www.canoe.ca/EdmontonNews/es.es-06-06-0009.html

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Maybe medical experiments? I’ve long held that the worst criminals should be forced to undergo medical experimentation as a way to make up their debt to society. Better to use a person who despite the ability to reason and a moral sense has chosen to do evil then creatures like chimps and such who don’t have such abilities.

Let find these guys and infect them with some deadly disease and then see if the newest experimental drugs can cure them.

Then hang them!

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I hear about stuff like this every once in a while and I just can’t help wondering what in the fuck they were thinking!? I think, like Feynn, that it was most likely teenagers. But what part of their reasoning equipment is so warped that they can’t see that huge boulders dropped into moving traffic=potential for death? Did they want to kill someone? How can any rational person claim that a stunt like this was “just a game” or that they “didn’t mean to hurt anyone”? No–just cause a five car pile-up so you can see all the rescue crews come with their pretty lights on, right? It’s like they’re living in a cartoon, and are expecting the director to yell cut and the players to stand up, shake their heads a bit, stuff their intestines back into their torsos, and just go on about their merry way.
::sigh::
People’s lives just trashed >snap< because a couple punks got bored with their playstation.

Of course, there’s always the infinitely more disturbing scenario in which the perpetrator(s) had every intention of killing someone. Murder so detatched and random that it hurts my heart to think about it.

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A good friend of mine lost a windshield to a watermellon dropped from an overpass. My friend was alone at the time and he was lucky in that the watermellon hit the passenger side. Had it hit the driver’s side, I have no doubt that he would have been seriously injured, if not killed. The perpetrators of this “joke” were never caught.

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You know, a lot of lives could be saved by organ donation. I’m sure whoever is reponsible has organs. Y’know, heart, liver, kidney, eyeballs. And I understand that the organs are much fresher and more usable if they are removed before death, without benefit of anasthetic . .

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Yummm…vivisection…and to make it better, let’s allow the parents of these infected pustules watch the procedure…

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:: Zette sharpens her melonballer ::

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The problem is probably because the idiots who do this kind of stuff don’t think they’re endangering people’s lives – they figure it’s a game, and the worst that will happen is that someone has to cough up “a few bucks” to fix the damage to his/her vehicle.

Which doesn’t make it any less of a crime, but it might explain why the morons do it.

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I knew a kid who pulled this kind of stunt. It was 25 years ago, and a bowling ball instead of a boulder. A woman was horribly injured, and never fully recovered. The kid (the mutant offspring of friends of my parents) did a couple of years in juvy hall and was released.

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Yeah, I’m with you Feynn. Let’s burn the fuckers. Let’s make sure they never get a chance to redeem themselves. After all, they’re prolly teenagers, and we all know how hanging teenagers has helped reduce the crime rate. Yep, those stupid arseholes who chucked a rock onto a car that killed a man deserve MORE than hanging…indeed, you suggest BEYOND the fullest extent of our current laws. Whaddya reckon Feynn? Shall we drop them in boiling oil, or draw and quarter them? Shall we leave them to the mercies of a nest of ants, so that they come out completely rooted? Whaddya reckon Feynn? Yep, they fucked-up, but, hey Feynn, didn’t YOU do anything completely stupid when you were a teenager? I did, and I thank god/allah/ whoever was the deity of the day that NOTHING serious happened. It could’ve. Easily. And while I feel for the family of Mr. Stanley, do you really thing that revenge against a bunch of dickhead adolescents is going to rectify things? Really?

Sure they were dickwads. Sure they were arseholes 'cos they should have anticipated the consequences of their errant actions. But should they DIE for it? I dunno mate, sounds a bit dodgy to me!

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I can assure you with 100% accuracy that all subjects of capitol punishment have never ever become repeat offenders.’

You kidding? You know how much oil costs now days??

And the other way is just too messy. . …

Oh come on, that is sooo elementary schoolish. Yeesh.

While I can’t speak for Feynn, I can safely say that, indeed;

I never EVER EVER did anything malicious that could have EVER EVEN POSSIBLY killed another person.

I did like the blades of a blender once without unplugging it though. (it was off, just not unplugged)

Congrats on being an insensitive dick, I’m sure your parents are proud that they fucked up.

:rolleyes:

I was taught to respect life from Day 1, and that HELPING people was the highest calling that one could aspire too.

Getting drunk/stoned/whatever and doing stupid shit, or just doing stupid shit alone, was a BIG no no

(I also didn’t spend ass loads of money on candy or goodies or cloths or any other such expenses, I put all of my money in the bank. Called thinking ahead and self preservation, nice concepts, should be taught to children by parents, I wonder why they are not. . . .)

Your fault.

I honestly hope that you feel guilty for that, guilt is damn nearly about the only redemption for endangering another’s life.

(I don’t give a fuck WHAT Deity you do or do not beg for forgiveness from, if you don’t feel BAD about what you did, no sense bothering, it all just becomes lip service after that)

Might prevent them from happening in the future.

Right now kids pretty much have the “Well I can do ANYTHING I want and NOT get in trouble” type of an opinion.

I’d betcha assloads of money that after a few generations of “Drink beer / do drugs and get shot on site” that this nation would have FAR less occurrences of drug / alcohol related accidents. . . .

Same goes for doing stupid shit.

People who throw firecrackers at dogs/cats, hell, now there are some stupid fucks. Now I wouldn’t mind spending the money on oil for boiling them in. . . .

People who think that human life ain’t worth a shit;

well hell, why should THEY even be CONSIDERED human?

If they do not want to give proper respects to other members of the species then I see no reason to TREAT THEM with the respects accorded to a member of the species.

They render themselves null and void.

Oh yah how about instead why not shove’em in jail for a few years, let’em get out, and become a danger to the public again!! Why that is SUCH A GREAT IDEA!!!

Pardon me, I have to go chase after my eyeballs, they just rolled out of my head. . . .

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Did you ever deliberately do something that could kill another human being? I did stupid stuff as a teenager, yet I somehow managed never to seriously endanger myself or others.

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Well, this story gives me a nice warm feeling inside. I do hope it’s true.

http://www.darwinawards.com/personal/personal1999-27.html

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kambuckta -

You’re right, I know all the vengeance in the world won’t bring back Robert Stanley. I never knew him but from what I have heard and seen on the news, he was a great guy. I drive that same freeway and it just as easily could have been me or someone else I know.

It is a shame that vengeance cannot bring him back, it’s a pity because if it really could I’d be breaking out the melon baller. Because it can’t I am left to vent my frustrations here.

But then again, perhaps we should coddle these irresposible and thoughtless little fuckers, if they are minors they will serve some time in a juvenile facility and even if they are charged as adults they are probably going to get out in under ten years. (This is what OUR current laws would probably give as a sentence).

What they probably need is a whole bunch of hugs. Yeah, that’s it… hugs.

Nah… fuck that.

I like your idea about the boiling oil better (despite the price of crude). Having them drawn and quartered never even crossed my mind but now that I think of it, that is a fucking stellar idea.

You see… I’m not yet in the mood to consider redemption as an option. I am more in the mood to blow off some steam as an innocent man was randomly killed by what appears to be a group of irresponsible, uncaring, and malicious persons. Things like this don’t lend themselves to making all of us feel all merciful.

Whaddya reckon?

Is it okay for me to me REALLY pissed off? Perhaps it would be more appropriate for me to start a rant about people who use the word “prolly” because that really pisses me off.

In answer to your question about doing stupid things as a teenager… I can’t think of anything I ever did that would have been life threatening and never in my wildest dreams ever considered tossing large objects off bridges would be something fun to do on a Saturday afternoon.

Of course, I was the world’s most boring teenager. It sounds like your teenage years were a little more exciting than mine.

Peace.

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Orright Feyyn, sorry about the ‘prolly’ (it shits me too when others use it, but I thought I might get away with it on this occasion, but…alas…not to be!)
I can appreciate how you’re feeling about the little arseholes, and I too have no illusions that just because a kid is technically a minor that it makes him/her less responsible for their actions.

I have had some recent experiences living with some ‘kids’ (as a care-giver for homeless kids), and I have no doubt whatsoever that most kids should be responsible for their actions.

HOWEVER…I DO wonder about hanging kids who chuck a rock off a bridge.

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Who said ya have to use crude oil ? cooking oil makes a nice crisp and it takes longer also

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Hey Fionn, I did some MAJOR stupid stuff as a teenager, and as I said in a previous ost, it was just good luck, or good Deity that kept me from getting into a confrontation with The Law.

I’m a mum now of teenagers who are dabbling in the same sorts of mischief that I did when I was their age. THAT’S why I hope that the death sentence isn’t invoked for sheer adolescent stupidity. In many ways, we’ve all been there and done that, and most of us managed to avoid the consequences of our thick-headedness. for the less fortunate/clever/astute then a prison sentence is in order…

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I guess the point I’m trying to make is that teenagers DO fuck up, as much as we as adults try to prevent it, but do we want to see them DIE or be imprisoned for life because of their stupid actions? [selfish motives] I must admit there are a couple of kids I WOULD like to see behind bars for the next 20 or so years, but only because they then would not be a bad influence on MY kids![/selfish motives]

What are ‘sentences’ for anyway? Punishment, rehabilitation or retribution?

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Nothing I did as a teenager (aside from, say “driving” which could, potentially result in an accident, etc) ever came close to endangering anyone’s life. And they didn’t “chuck a rock” they dropped a BOULDER into traffic.

When I was a kid, I remember my dad, his girlfriend, his girlfriend’s 18 month old baby, and myself set out from Florida to Pennsylvania by car. Somewhere around Georgia, at night, while driving under an overpass, our windshield suddenly shattered into a bazillion pieces. The Mountain Dew label stuck to the glass made it pretty clear what had happened.

So we stood there on the shoulder of the highway, in front of the car’s headlights, picking glass out of a screaming infant, out of my father’s hands, etc. … My dad could have very easily lost control of the car and we could all have been even more injured or possibly killed. As it was, I can tell you that I hope you never have to treat an infant with 100+ glass cuts. It isn’t fun.

And it was all because some idiot thought it would be fun to throw a glass bottle off an overpass into highway-speed traffic.

People like that … we don’t need their genetics in our gene pool. Cull the herd.

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That IS minimizing their crime a bit, isn’t it???

They didn’t just toss a rock off a bridge. Their intention was obviously to cause mayhem. Showing a complete disregard for life. We have malice aforethought here, since this very bulky, heavy rock had to moved and transported though a fence.

Did you think they couldn’t see the bus coming from their vantage point? They intended to do as much damage as possible.

I think some punishment, severe as the law allows, is in order here. And if they get their asses kicked when apprehended, so much the better.