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I heard this morning something I'd like you say me if it is true.
On a french forum, somebody explains he has heard that a new law was voted in Texas. This new law is about the punishment of those who degradated a wall or something by graffiti. If somebody is catched he may condamne to have the inch cuted.
It seems to me something really crazy. It's like the islamic law which cut the hand of robber.
Can you explain me ? It is wrong or true ?
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quote:Originally posted by Choobak: If somebody is catched he may condamne to have the inch cuted.
I don't understand you. Do you mean to say that a body part would be cut off as a punishment? If so, then that can't be true. Higher laws in the US would forbid it.
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You won't be executed, but in my understanding, it is a felony to grafitti gang signs on public property in Texas- which means you might go to jail. If you're just putting up grafitti and you get caught, you get a fine.
Texas may like the death penalty, but not *that* much.
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Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman has suggested that those who deface freeways with graffiti should have their thumbs cut off on television.
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I'm vaguely offended that the story was purported to be from Texas. Not at Choobak, of course.
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(I saw the recipe! It looked great. Unfortunately I don't cook much, and have been to busy to bother changing the measures to cups. Someday maybe...)
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Oscar Goodman is a very good mayor, and extremely popular in Las Vegas. However, he is just as much a showman as he is a mayor. Everything he does is for P.R., usually for the city, but sometimes for himself. He says and does some outrageous things, but most of the people here love him for it; it's part of his charm.
He does have his flaws, however. He's a lawyer by profession, for one thing. Can't trust those guys. (Actually, he made his name by defending mafiosos back in the bad old days of Las Vegas.) He likes his likker a little too much, if you ask me. He actually has an endorsement deal with a gin company. He doesn't understand children at all, so he sometimes says some pretty stupid things when he's visiting schools, etc.
But he is a fantastic ambassador for Las Vegas. He has done almost as much for the city's marketing success over the last decade as Steve Wynn. He and the Maloof brothers are responsible for Vegas getting the NBA All-Star game in a couple of years, and if we end up getting any NBA or MLB team here in the next five years, as some predict, it will be largely due to his efforts.
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quote: It's not necessarily that I deem him evil. It's just that I can't imagine why anyone who didn't have an evil streak would WANT to be mayor of a city that advertises "Whatever happens here, stays here."
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I saw this briefly on CNN this morning before work. My first thought is that the guy's been watching too many Mafia movies.
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No matter what Goodman says, cutting off people's thumbs on television and/or public canings are a clear violation of the US constitution. I can't imagine even the most conservative judges in the US upholding a law of this sort.
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quote:Another panelist on the show, Howard Rosenberg, a state university system regent, responded by saying that cutting off the thumbs of taggers won't solve the problem and Goodman should "use his head for something other than a hat rack."
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Oscar knows a law like this really wouldn't fly. It was just his way of saying he's really serious about the problem(s).
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No, in Texas we elevate our grafitti criminals to the status of artists, just like most other states in the nation...
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quote:It was just his way of saying he's really serious about the problem(s).
Oh, so it's like the penalty I used to suggest (NOT in front of the public, though) for parents who leave their very small children unattended in the children's section of Borders (I used to work there.): A first offense would involve tying the parent to a chair and forcing him/her watch all the child-abduction episodes of Law and Order: SVU. A second offense would involve sending the kids to new homes with better parents.
(Seriously, I would get so frustrated seeing these itty bitty kids "parked" in the children's section while the parent went off to shop or get a cup of coffee. Sometimes the kid wouldn't even be old enough to talk... anybody could just walk off with them, or pull them behind a bookshelf, and nobody would realize it until it was too late. And I couldn't watch the kids all the time -- I had to do my job...)
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I had a similar problem when I used to work retail. One woman with a toddler asked if we had a bathroom. When I told her she could us the one in the stockroom she said, "Go to the potty with the nice lady." And then left me with a child too young to go to the "potty" by himself. Okay, first, soooo not my job! And how does she know I'm a "nice lady" not some child molesting kidnapper she's asking to undress, wipe, and re-dress her kid. Honestly!
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