Of all the stupid things in this thread, this has to be near the top.
Not thought through all the way
Deliberate
Painful
Permanent damage
Failed to get money
Looks stupid to the entire world
“I did it for the money. I don’t have the money, and I don’t have my legs. Pretty, isn’t it.”
I’m curious about the evil mofo who did the persuading. What did he hope to obtain from this racket?
I also wonder about the mental state of both of them. Before the caper that is, not now.
He doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
He’s lucky he didn’t kick the bucket. At least that won’t happen now.
An Ohio toddler died after her mom left her home alone while she took a 10-day vacation. …
Kristel Candelario, was away on a 10-day summer vacation and had left Jailyn alone in a playpen with a few bottles of milk, …
But Candelario was hundreds of miles away in Puerto Rico with a male friend, authorities said. After a few days at the beach and another stop in Detroit, she returned home on June 16 last year to find her daughter dead. She’d been gone for about 10 days. …
Candelario told the court she prays daily for forgiveness, adding that she believes God and Jailyn have forgiven her.
“I am not trying to justify my actions, but nobody knew how much I was suffering and what I was going through,” she said.
The mother was sentenced to life in prison, without the possibility of parole.
Mentioned in the Evil MFers thread.
I think that’s not enough. They should forget to feed her for a week or two.
My standard is, if you murdered someone, the method you used is not “cruel and unusual”, and can be used on you.
And inflicting that sort of punishment on someone really does terrible things to the person assigned (or even volunteering) to render the ‘punishment’. You are what you do, not what you believe.
Meeting evil with evil is still evil.
One can say that about any form of legal punishment.
That’s a rather absolutist = mindless perspective. But unsurprising.
One could say that, but one would be in error.
I would say that legal punishment is, in fact, meeting evil with evil, but “punishment” is not the same thing as “consequences” or “penalties”. Criminal sentences can also, potentially, serve the purposes of restitution, rehabilitation, protection of the public, and deterrence towards other potential criminals, and those are all non-evil purposes.
The thumbnail and article show a picture of the couch. If you do a google image search for “Lacey Ellen Fletcher”, there’s more pictures of her (alive) sitting on that same couch, as well as, what I assume is, a crime scene picture. Her face is blurred and she’s mostly under a blanket and if you didn’t know better, you’d probably assume she’s sleeping, but the picture is out there if anyone wants to see it. It’s not that graphic, but it seems wrong to link to it here.
It’s the difference between justice and vengeance. The law seeks justice while JAQ is asking for vengeance.
The problem is that, while those are the theoretical goals of criminal justice, the system we have mostly fails at them (has a troublingly low success rate). Prison was invented for dealing with the enemies of the Crown and is largely impractical as a tool for managing modern social problems. And “restitution” is almost entirely absent from the criminal justice system.
But this is a subject to be thrashed out in detail in another thread.
Free Hat.
Clever, but stupid.
Sounds like it would have worked if the plane wasn’t full.
It shouldn’t have worked, though. The ticketing system shouldn’t have allowed two entries on the same ticket. Whoever tried to enter later, whether with the real pass or the copy, should have been flagged as a duplicate by the system.
Unless gate agents are used to people getting off and then reboarding. Does that happen often?