Friday, July 18, 2008

Cruel and unusual punishment

Car-keying suspect out on $25,000 bail

As a Canadian, I've always thought that people should be punished for the wrongs they commit, but that the punishment should not be cruel and unusual. Having had my car keyed a couple of times in Vancouver, I don't have too much sympathy for people who do such mean-spirited, seemingly pointless things (and this guy has been caught 3 times) . . . however, this punishment surely is cruel...

Kim, who works at a restaurant on Kingsway in Burnaby, was ordered to live with his parents in their Coquitlam home and not to change his residence, except with prior permission of the court.

The man is 31 and it was probably his parents who had to post the $25,000 bail. I suspect that his parents are going to make his life pretty miserable for the next little while.

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