OT: Dumbf#$%ers + my school.

[daveblackeye15]

Today was Finals week and boy do I love Finals Week when it's over. But on Monday it was no ordinary Final Week. I was in my 7th period class when the fire alarm went off. When all of us got out of the building we were a bit confused. Just last week we had had a fire alarm so we all figured this was one of those prank fire alarms.

It wasn't a prank.

In 8th period class a there was an announcement that the message board in front of the auditiorium was set on fire and thankful a student came by and quickly pulled the alarm. There is a reward of $100 to anyone that can find or give out information on the dumbf**ker(s) that did this. Not only is this a big felony but my school is old and would burn up quickly if it had caught on fire. I don't know if the dumbf**ker(s) have been caught but here's what I would do to them.

1) Give them one hundred hours of community service.
2) Make them pay a large amount of money.
3) For one hour each day for one week make the dumbf**ker(s) watch films that have the dangers of fire and also showed charcol bodies of dead people. Hell I want this motherf**kers to be terrfied and pay for what they did.
4) Make them do something embarrising in front of the whole school. I don't know but I smile at many cruel ideas.

So I'm glad my school didn't burn down and nobody got hurt. I just hope the motherf**kers get caught and pay for this.




-Craptastic!-

[Evil Matt]

Well, the first idea isn't bad, because it makes those dumbasses have to be proactive and actually do something beneficial with their time.  Although, I can tell you from experience that most community service is done sitting in a chair, waiting for your eight hours to end.  A large fine may or may not work, depending on how bad their parents will kick their asses upon having to pay it.  A movie about fire safety is probably not your best idea, because they'd either laugh at how bad it was, or laugh at the scenes of charred bodies.  I went to school with a whole lot of idiots, I know how they think...

And sadly, while making them do something embarassing in front of their peers is a GREAT idea, we can't get away with stuff like that in this country.  It's too damaging to their fragile psyches.  God forbid they end up with low self esteem when they're thirty years old and jocking the deep fryer at a Wendy's all because someone made them uncomfortable for fifteen minutes back when they were in high school.  


Sorry...I started going off on a tangent there, didn't I...?

[daveblackeye15]

Evil Matt: < all because someone made them uncomfortable for fifteen minutes back when they were in high school.>

Mintues?! I'm talking HOURS for many DAYS! Besides cocks like them (him/she) diserve it for putting a whole school in danger. And also this is just a fantasy. And the fire and safety movie I was just talking about charcol bodies and if they laugh at all I guy will come over and punch them and he'll say "You s**t that was once a living being! it's not fake! It's real!" but people can dream can't we?

[Susan]

I'm suprised I lived through high school. We had about 20 bomb threats that had is standing in cold weather, rain, heat while the fire department scoped the building over (this was very early90's). We had a few people set fires, launch stink bombs in stairwells which were more of a nuisance. And before all these school shootings became a popular fad, we made local news here when a parent came up to the school and in disagreement with our principal..aimed for his manlihood, fired and slightly missed the target - but put him in the hospital for quite awhile. After that we had security guards outside the office for the remainder of my time there. We also had a hushed up case of a teacher messing with some girls

[Grumpy Guy]

I've always felt that public humiliation would be a cool form of punishment for minor crimes.  

Of course, it could also horribly backfire.  There are more than a few people in prison who blame "the system" for their being there, even though they killed, raped, or sold drugs.  Embarassment might make the rest of us feel a bit better, but, in the end, they'll blame the state, or whatever, for their problems, and never own up to the fact that they're the ones that screwed up, and they got only what they deserved.

Besides, we've got the whole no cruel and unusual punishment thing goin' on.

[raj]

That's what the stocks are for.  Those old stick your head and hands through the wood thingies.  They might work.  Of course, in the age of Jerry Springer I'm not sure that shame has any meaning.

I'd have the jerks work in an emergency room, or work with burned people.

[JohnL]

>or laugh at the scenes of charred bodies

Take them to the city morgue and show them some real charred corpses.

>That's what the stocks are for. Those old stick your head and hands through the
>wood thingies.

"Stocks" only had holes for the person's feet and sometimes their hands and the person sat on a bench. The "pillory" was the one that had the holes for both the head and hands while the person was standing.

[Eirik]

dave - I dunno where you live, but if it's as cold there as it is here, that fire drill wasn't fun.

Here's a novel idea: those kids (I'm assuming they were students) who lit the fire (assuming it was on purpose) are guilty of attempted arson - a felony.  Why not arrest them and put them on trial and let them suffer the proper sentence for that crime?  And if they can prove that they did not intend to start a fire, get them for the lesser charge of running from the scene of a fire without alerting anyone.  

Unfortunately, when I was in high school and college, I saw school administrators brush s**t like that under the rug, hand out slaps on the wrist, and never notify the authorities.  In one case, a girl reported to her RA that another student raped her.  The RA (genius) called the dean!  Not the cops, the dean.  The dean came in and kicked the accused kid off campus permanantly and yanked his partial scholarship.  Um, excuse me!  Due process???  Police?  Medical collection of forensic evidence??  Arrrrgh!!  Anyway, I hope your school got the cops involved.

The legal system: it can really mess with you when you break the law.