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ParticipantArrest him now; nobody wants a fugitive situation.
Then again, having him spend the rest of his sorry life in Costa Rica or Argentina will do the taxpayers a favor, since they’re not paying for his imprisonment. The worst penalty for a person like him is to die as an insignificant, powerless little foreigner.
ParticipantWhat airline do you fly for? I want to make sure to avoid it.
He flies for Con Air and Air America, don’cha know.
ParticipantForeign tourists, I can live with. Gawking midwesterners, ummmm….
ParticipantHuman v. Dog. I cannot believe this is even debatable. You may believe in capital punishment. That’s a separate issue. But to equate human life with a dog? Basically you are saying the property of another –dog — is more valuable than a human.
No, I’m saying that the lives of some humans — serial killers, genocidal psychopaths, people who prey on the aged or very young — have negative value. Would I throw the switch in the electric chair? Probably not. Do I support the death penalty? In general, no. But I think that there are many non-human life forms that are worth more than certain sorry examples of humankind.
ParticipantI’d say that “most” human life is more valuable than a dog’s. A genocidal mass murderer? A serial killer? A swindler who probably drove some to suicide? I have my doubts.
Not that I’d personally press the switch for the electric chair, but I’m not sure if I’d go out of my way to save their lives (over any other life form) either.
ParticipantDepends on the dog and the person. You’re telling me you’d choose Bernie Madoff’s, Jeffrey Dahmer’s, or Adolf Eichmann’s life over that of a loyal dog?
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I’d actually agree. Though I think that most people who call dogs “children” do so in jest, not seriously. If someone seriously thinks of a dog as a child, then yeah, they’ve got issues.
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Got to love Californicator petty Fascist thinking. Need a law for everything — throw the book at ’em. If it causes an accident, then look twice at it, but treating any unrestrained dog like a DUI is frankly insane.
I may add that some dogs do NOT deal with car rides well, and having them ride in a crate or wear a harness would make things a lot worse. Think shaky/vomity/messy mutt.
January 5, 2014 at 6:07 AM in reply to: So what would you do with someone that keeps taking your newspaper? #769537ParticipantI miss the old days when you can just get in a fight and people understood you have at least some rights to defend your property / yourself without overthinking the situation when clearly, someone is in the wrong here…
If the thief somehow ends up with a nosebleed, who’s to say that he didn’t trip and fall while stealing the paper…? Of course, then he could sue for the “victim” having unsafe front steps. *sigh*
ParticipantIf a dog is well trained, being off-leash should be OK in a park or whatever.
January 4, 2014 at 12:15 PM in reply to: So what would you do with someone that keeps taking your newspaper? #769516ParticipantThey left an old newspaper out with a note that said “don’t steal our newspaper. We know who you are. If you do again, we’re calling the police!”
If they did actually call the police, would the dispatcher laugh or call an ambulance to take them to the loony bin?
ParticipantYou’d be horrified at New York — people bring them into restaurants and banks … officially illegal, but what’s a law that’s not enforced much?
I’d watch out though … with recent news out of North Korea, it seems that Kim Jong Eun(uch) may release some dogs with frickin’ laser beams on the US population.
ParticipantBuy dryer on Craigslist for $50 — WIN!
ParticipantTarzhaaaay was just publicized recently. Could have been anyone who handled your card and stole the number, or another insecure merchant.
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