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K Frame

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Wow! This will be effective!
« on: July 13, 2008, 04:44:26 AM »
British plan is to make youths caught carrying knives visit stabbing victims in hospital.

Probably the only thing it will do is map out for them just where to stab someone.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7503845.stm
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Re: Wow! This will be effective!
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2008, 05:27:50 AM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on July 13, 2008, 03:44:26 AM
British plan is to make youths caught carrying knives visit stabbing victims in hospital.

Probably the only thing it will do is map out for them just where to stab someone.

Yeah, or give them a chance to finish the job ...  rolleyes
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Re: Wow! This will be effective!
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2008, 05:30:07 AM »
I think a more useful intervention would be have them volunteer in the ER.
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Re: Wow! This will be effective!
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2008, 05:37:45 AM »
Quote from: wmenorr67 on July 13, 2008, 04:30:07 AM
I think a more useful intervention would be have them volunteer in the ER.

No. Too much opportunity to do harm to patients. And they would, too. These are remorseless, violent thugs who would probably think it was funny.

A simple contaminated object can kill, so can a syringe of whatever might be around. Plus they'd steal drugs. The doctors, nurses and orderlies have ENOUGH to do in an ER, their attention is on the patients, they can't be watching what a street thug is doing. There's always crash carts full of stealable things around the ER.

The most I'd make them do would be incinerator duty for the biohazard waste.
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« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2008, 05:44:58 AM »
Quote from: Manedwolf on July 13, 2008, 04:37:45 AM
Quote from: wmenorr67 on July 13, 2008, 04:30:07 AM
I think a more useful intervention would be have them volunteer in the ER.

No. Too much opportunity to do harm to patients. And they would, too. These are remorseless, violent thugs who would probably think it was funny.

A simple contaminated object can kill, so can a syringe of whatever might be around. Plus they'd steal drugs. The doctors, nurses and orderlies have ENOUGH to do in an ER, their attention is on the patients, they can't be watching what a street thug is doing. There's always crash carts full of stealable things around the ER.

The most I'd make them do would be incinerator duty for the biohazard waste.
Couldn't we incinerate them for BEING biohazard waste?
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Re: Wow! This will be effective!
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2008, 05:46:46 AM »
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Couldn't we incinerate them for BEING biohazard waste?

Not in England: they're subjects.
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« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2008, 06:23:45 AM »
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Not in England: they're subjects.

Subject to burning?
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« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2008, 04:43:04 PM »
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« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2008, 05:15:31 PM »
Quote from: thebaldguy on July 13, 2008, 03:43:04 PM
It looks like pubs may have to frisk each patron for a knife.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/pubs-to-be-forced-to-search-customers-for-knives-866478.html
Only the ones with prior problems with knife carrying patrons. So I figure many of them will move to new hunting grounds, and then those will be ordered to start frisking their patrons as well, and so on.
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Re: Wow! This will be effective!
« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2008, 10:55:28 PM »
A brief back massage with a bamboo rod, followed by ten years hard labor would be much better.
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