[quote]orion wrote:
Lorisco wrote:
Varqanir wrote:
Maybe we should take a cue from the Puritans: put all the girls (and their parents too, why not?) in the stocks outside of City Hall, with large placards explaining what crime each of the stockaded individuals had committed.
There would, of course, be a bushel basket of overripe fruit and vegetables conveniently available, so that passers-by could select a soggy tomato, maybe, or a brown banana, or perhaps even a mushy cantaloupe, and hurl it gleefully at the malefactors.
There’s your public humiliation, baby.
I was thinking more along the lines of public caning, like in Singapore, but I like your idea as well. Oh, and that includes the parents.
It seems barbaric, but, just like bootcamps, what if that actually works?
I know that at least in our system, juvenile delinquents get a pass so often that they lose any respect for the law.
Until they turn 18 and are tried as adults and all their prior convictions are added to their sentences.
Maybe a solid public ass whooping would save a lot of time, money and grief.[/quote]
I don’t know what is barbaric about it. It’s just a public spanking with a wooden stick. As a teen I received several of these myself (not public, but with a wooden stick) and I turned out fine;}
