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28 May 2004

Something's Very, Very Wrong with This Picture 

Three children decapitated in Baltimore. What's wrong with the world?

I woke up this morning to the news of a cab driver here in Oslo who'd beaten an 11-year-old mentally handicapped boy until he started bleeding, as he was driving him to school. Another person witnessed the whole thing from the car behind and called the police. They stopped the car. The cab driver has confessed, but it seems like no one knows why he did it. However, this is not my concern. First of all: What in Bob's name is wrong with you??? Secondly, his punishment was a fine of about US$1,000, he may not drive children anymore, and the police are considering revoking his cab driver's permit. WHAT??? What kind of a punishment is that, for beating a helpless child (he couldn't even speak, and was clearly upset when brought to the casualty ward)?

A Norwegian man, convicted for raping a young boy in Greece, had his sentence revoked when sent back to Norway after only a few months in Greece. He was given 30 years imprisonment in Greece, two years in Norway. He said the Norwegian prison was like a hotel compared to the Greek one. What's the point in putting people in prison when they don't a) see it as a punishment, and b) get more than a few years for rape?

Here endeth today's Question Hour. I'm off to lunch. To paraphrase Candice Bergen in Sweet Home Alabama: "Yum!"

Current track: Not much.

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