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Title: Sick world, sick people
Post by: Hawkmoon on March 07, 2019, 06:32:33 PM: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Man-Blinds-Grandma-By-Gouging-Her-Eyes-Out-During-Argument-Over-Debit-Card-Prosecutors-506776331.html?_osource=taboola-recirc

30-year old man gets in an argument with his grandmother because he overdrew her debit card by $1,000, then gouges her eyes out. Doctors estimate less than a 1% chance that she'll regain sight in her eyes.

Here's a case where I think an old school, eye-for-an-eye approach is literally called for. I think an appropriate punishment would be to remove his eyes and transplant them into his grandmother.

I know ... I'm a bad person.
Title: Re: Sick world, sick people
Post by: Triphammer on March 07, 2019, 06:57:02 PM: Sounds like a Solomon's decision to me.
Title: Re: Sick world, sick people
Post by: grampster on March 07, 2019, 07:09:03 PM: Eye for an eye seems appropriate.
Title: Re: Sick world, sick people
Post by: cordex on March 07, 2019, 07:56:15 PM: Quote from: Triphammer on March 07, 2019, 06:57:02 PM
Sounds like a Solomon's decision to me.
Divide him in two with a sword and give half to his mom and half to another woman?
Title: Re: Sick world, sick people
Post by: Andiron on March 07, 2019, 09:09:15 PM: Rabid dog, meet Old Yeller treatment. Guy needs put down.
Title: Re: Sick world, sick people
Post by: WLJ on March 07, 2019, 09:13:45 PM: Flying lessons
Title: Re: Sick world, sick people
Post by: Andiron on March 07, 2019, 09:31:55 PM: Quote from: WLJ on March 07, 2019, 09:13:45 PM
Flying lessons

Pinochet did nothing wrong...
Title: Re: Sick world, sick people
Post by: Perd Hapley on March 08, 2019, 12:36:19 AM: Quote from: Andiron on March 07, 2019, 09:31:55 PM
Pinochet did nothing wrong...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Title: Re: Sick world, sick people
Post by: makattak on March 08, 2019, 08:37:18 AM: Quote
Grief is expected to appear in court again on March 15. He could face up to 25 years in prison if he’s convicted.

Not long enough.

And he probably won't even get the full 25.
Title: Re: Sick world, sick people
Post by: MechAg94 on March 08, 2019, 08:56:45 AM: That story is probably worse than this, but bad all the same.
https://www.koat.com/article/police-man-killed-wife-2-friends-when-they-wouldnt-let-him-drive-drunk/26760700
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WINONA, Miss. —
A Mississippi man shot and killed his wife and two other people at her birthday party last week after she tried to stop him from driving drunk, investigators said.
Not sure what sort of angry drunk you have to be to do something like this.
Title: Re: Sick world, sick people
Post by: Perd Hapley on March 08, 2019, 11:45:50 AM: Quote from: MechAg94 on March 08, 2019, 08:56:45 AM
That story is probably worse than this, but bad all the same.
https://www.koat.com/article/police-man-killed-wife-2-friends-when-they-wouldnt-let-him-drive-drunk/26760700

Not sure what sort of angry drunk you have to be to do something like this.

Probably the kind that's not legally allowed to have a gun, and should have been in prison to begin with.
Title: Re: Sick world, sick people
Post by: HankB on March 08, 2019, 12:42:10 PM: I don't believe in torture as punishment, it's not good for the person(s) administering it.

BUT - I DO believe in putting down mad dogs.
Title: Re: Sick world, sick people
Post by: Hawkmoon on March 08, 2019, 01:00:17 PM: Quote from: HankB on March 08, 2019, 12:42:10 PM
I don't believe in torture as punishment, it's not good for the person(s) administering it.

Nobody said anything about torture. It's about restitution, not retribution.
Title: Re: Sick world, sick people
Post by: Jamisjockey on March 08, 2019, 04:59:48 PM: Didn't see that one coming.