Well, the trouble with arbitrary prosecutions is you never know which group or who will be next.kyleb said:I think it is a great idea to make a very public example of someone like this. No, she won't go into the pokey for 20 years for terrorism - in a few months, a prosecutor or the DA will lessen the charges. However, the immediate publicity will dissuade the next person from doing it, and she'll learn an important lesson in how expensive and life changing it can be to intentionally destroy $35k of someone else's stuff.
No of course not and if I owned the store I would throw it out and expect the person who did that to pay for it.Cap'n Jack said:Would you eat the food?
What is arbitrary is trying to use over the top prosecutions for crimes which bear no reasonable relationship to the actual actions.kyleb said:When you intentionally damage $35k of stuff, it isn't an arbitrary prosecution. Ain't like they said "eenie, meenie, miney, moe" and picked a random person queuing up in the checkout line.
No, it was apparently the action of someone with mental health issues. In that sense, such a person is not likely to even modify their behavior much in response to the charges.benyflyguy said:This wasn’t even a stunt.
Definitely stupid and if she did not have pre-existing mental health issues, should definitely be punished. In any case, mental health issues or not, should be responsible for the property damage.kyleb said:If I'd done something stupid like that, I'd have claimed mental problems too. I don't see what she did as political. I see it as an extension of the youtube/reality TV culture where people are almost encouraged to do absolutely stupid things. Thing is, do the stupid things to YOUR stuff, not someone else's stuff.
Getting even crazier. I think it is a biological weapon only if the contents were processed somehow to increase the concentration of the virus and she actually had the illness. :emoji846:Cap'n Jack said:What if she sneezed into a spray bottle filled with water and started spraying people with the contents?