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Originally posted by alyosha1981
reply to post by tezzajw
Your right she should have to pay the $200, and do the jail time and then go apologies to to the store owner as well!
Originally posted by tezzajw
Sure, she's legally an adult but she's still a teen. I encourage you to read some basic psych books and see how the teenage brain is still prone to risk-taking.
Originally posted by alyosha1981
I don't mind some of my taxes going to the justice system, thats why it's there! for criminals like her ( and worse) as well.
Originally posted by tezzajw
So you would personally lock her up for three months and justify to her family why you feel that this is warranted?
I'm assuming that you never did anything wrong as a teenager, nor did any of your friends or family?
We can't have a police state and absolute subjugation without people willing to be controlled and abused by authority.
Most of the teenagers that I grew up with did some kind of naughty thing once. It's part of growing up. You would have to lock up nearly a whole generation of people in Melbourne if you're going to throw a girl in jail for writing her name on a wall.
Originally posted by RFBurns
That young lady looks quite intelligent to me in the press release photo. She looks like she is from a decent family, educated, not a bum or gang member. So I would think that this young lady has the smarts to know the difference between right and wrong.
Originally posted by tezzajw
Originally posted by RFBurns
Ok here we have an 18 year old ADULT, who shortly after turning 18, decided to spray some paint on private property..a resturant wall.
Ah-huh. Yeah, no worries. It's probably worth reading the article before replying to it.
You realise that she used a black texta and not spray paint, right? You realise that she wrote her name about the size of 1 foot by 2 foot?
Sure, she's legally an adult but she's still a teen. I encourage you to read some basic psych books and see how the teenage brain is still prone to risk-taking.
Just liked I predicted in the OP and I'm not being let down. The police state replies are typical of a world gone mad. Keep them coming!
Who wants to volunteer to personally look this girl in the eye and tell her that she's going to be deprived of her freedom and liberty for three months because she wrote her name on a wall?
Remember, when you look her in the eye, think of all the times that you could have been caught doing something, or when you were caught and let off lightly, how lucky you were and how she's been persecuted by an injust unfair system.
Originally posted by RFBurns
reply to post by alyosha1981
Im sure this 18 yr old young adult will learn the lesson of being an adult real quick now, and definately think twice about doing stupid childish acts like that ever again.
Now she will have her first black mark on her brand new ADULT record. Heck of a way to start out being an adult.
That young lady looks quite intelligent to me in the press release photo. She looks like she is from a decent family, educated, not a bum or gang member. So I would think that this young lady has the smarts to know the difference between right and wrong.
Chances are that after the first month in jail, she will be let loose anyway and the rest of her jail time will be probation.
Cheers!!!!
Originally posted by Snappahead
Yep, did plenty wrong in the past and have paid for it - see my reply above.
A good foot up the ass from their parents and neighbours would have sorted them out while they were young enough to take notice, but our paranoid politically correct country has given us a generation where it is wrong to make children suffer the consequences of their actions and instead we're left with the dysfunctional society we have. Lets hope there's more judges out here like this one that start laying down the law.
Originally posted by RFBurns
Does it matter if she used paint, sharpie, blood, lipstick?
No it doesnt.
When I was 18 I wasnt going around writting on walls my friend. I was doing things to better my life since at that time I just turned into an adult and knew the responsibilities that came with the glory of becoming an adult.
So please..spare me the "deprive her freedom" bull.... because that dont wash and 3 months is nothing. Even 1 month is nothing with 2 months probation. And being free doesnt mean being responsible free.
Get real.
Originally posted by RFBurns
reply to post by The Bald Champion
Chances are she will spend a month at most, in a low security county or city jail house, and get to watch tv, smoke em if she's got em, put her feet up and get 3 hots and a cot each day.
Or if her lawyer appeals, she can be out in 2 weeks after going in and spend her time on probation terms.
Who knows, if she behaves like an adult should while in jail, she may actually get out within the first two weeks and be declared as sentance served.
Its all up to her, ever since she turned 18..hence the term "legally responsible age"...which is 18.
Cheers!!!!
Originally posted by RFBurns
Im so glad you got ESP and know when someone reads something or not.
Im sure that as a responsible adult yourself...you would clearly see the point that the judge is trying to make with the case.
So before you go on some high and mighty march of you know best...
In simpler terms...quit making mountians out of ant hills.
Originally posted by alyosha1981
reply to post by RFBurns
Absolutly! and i'll add taht the public is sometimes outraged with a "harsh" decission made by a judge until their the victim then "it's on"
really who goes into a restaraunt and does this? or any other place for that matter.