Thursday, July 23, 2009

Is JUST the arrest a deterrent to crime?

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This morning on FOX, they had a story about three boys, 7,8 and 11, who were cuffed and arrested for stealing bicycle parts. The owner of the parts followed one of the boys home, then called the police, so the police are sure they have the right kids. Here's the blurb from a TV station in Bal'amur.
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Guess what? Their mommies are upset, that the little darlings were treated like "hardened criminals". One mother says she is considering legal action.
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So once again, the cops are the bad guys, the mini-gangstas are the downtrodden masses. AW, BS! What would your parents have done if you were caught stealing out of a neighbors yard? My father would have beat me like a red headed step-child. I'd still be grounded, and I'd owe three more years of raking leaves and shoveling snow in that neighbors yard. The punishment would have WAY outweighed the crime, but I would have thought twice about it before heisting anything else. To start with I knew better than this at 7 or 8, and certainly by 11.
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On FOX only 2 of the 3 mothers and miscreants did the interview, hopefully miscreant number 3 was still too sore to sit down for the interview. And in answer to the topic title, "Is JUST the arrest a deterrent to crime?". One of these little thieves lied about stealing the parts on camera, until mom told him he needed to tell the truth. Something tells me, this wasn't his last trip in a squad car.

OBLIQUE THOUGHT: in the article, the African-American mother referred to the vehicle her son was placed in, as a "paddy wagon". Should we expect a spokesmen from Sinn Fein to start asking for an apology from this lady for using racially charged terms that harm all Irish people?
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Straight and Narrow Schteveo
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12 comments:

Anonymous said...

When the Fox News guy asked one of the kids if he stole something, the kid said no. Then the Fox guy said that the kids had admitted to the police that he took things. The kids then said yeah, he took some stuff that didn't belong to him.

So, I guess taking things that don't belong to you isn't considered stealing??

Who's John Galt?

Schteveo said...

Anon,
he was bold little thief wasn't he? Usually kids stare into a camera, especially the TV cameras. Neither of those kids would even LOOK at the camera.

Guilt? I believe so. But denying it after getting caught seems like a pattern. Like I said, Ayize hasn't seen the last of his rides with the po po.

Spider said...

The story shows me that these kids have been down this road before. But hey, cut them some slack. After all, they're just getting started. After a few more arrests, they'll get better at lying and avoiding the police, especially since they know mommy is there to cover for them.

The sad part is, this is the age when a good ass wippin would probably save these kids, but there doesn't seem to be anybody who cares enough. The skells who spit these kids out are far more interested in how much money they can get out of the city and the police.

Anonymous said...

Beat them and the mothers

Anonymous said...

chop off their pee pees.

Schteveo said...

Spider,
we agree. An old fashioned ass whippin goes a long way to establishing a life long habit of obeying the law.

You know what else hit me this AM? There was NO father mentioned for any of these three kids. All the stories were all about, "... the mothers, moms, sons, she, she, the mothers and their boys...". Not a father in sight, except as a sperm donor 8, 9 or 12 years ago. But single parent families aren't part of the problem.

sr & K said...

That's because they was all taken way by dee FBI dis mournin. Sos I aks, where's Missy? Cawt up in da web?

Snorphticulous said...

Sends dem litta dahlinkz obba hea. I fixes dem ups nize. Sumpin fo mah buttey Ky-o-teez to makes a sammich outta. Yee hawwww.

AN dat ain't sayin EATs ME needer.

Or maybee we jes lets da rats nibba own dey toez. EH HENT!

an Missy, I need a current picture of you. I'll send you one of me at Disneyland a couple weeks ago wit my hand up Snow Whites dress (after I had to cap all seven ub dem midgets, of course).

"Grammie" or whatever name he wants to call me!! said...

OT QUESTION:

Did anyone watch Moabama's health care speech last night? Did they have the republican response to it like they used to have the democrat's response to W's speeches or has the media done away with that?

sfp said...

Most incoherent socialist babble I ever hoid. First he says he has no idea whats in it and them tell us how good it will be (hallucinogenicly fantastic) The ultimate free lunch. Like the one Ol PeanutDik sold the Moron Majority.

Ya'll get what you deserve.

Anonymous said...

Want a good laugh?

" We cannot but regard Mrs. Clinton as a funny lady as she likes to utter such rhetoric, unaware of the elementary etiquette in the international community. Sometimes she looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping."

– Official North Korean Statement, 7/22/09

Goober said...

If I had gotten caught by the police stealing and arrested at that age, i would have been BEGGING the police to not take me home. Take me to jail, and throw away the key. At least my old man can't get to me there!

But then, in today's world, my Dad would be considered abusive (when he was about as far from it as a man could possibly be. He was always fair in dishing out his ass-whuppins. I always deserved it).

Funny, I get ass-whuppins, and the child psychologists of the world tell me that I am damaged, that I should have a wounded inner child and an unhappy life because my parents were cruel and abusive, but I am successful and wealthy and quite happy, thanks much...

Yet, these kids, who the child psychologists would say had a great childhood, in which they were allowed to participate in making the choices determining their life path, were never disciplined harshly, and probably never got spanked, and have Mommy coming to their rescue when they do bad things, are probably going to end up felons and incarcerated most of their adult lives.

Child psychologists can kiss my well-spanked ass.