tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289482511228853984.post2608710286798374531..comments2023-12-16T05:27:05.041-06:00Comments on mexpatriate — in the key of steve: paging john edwardsSteve Cottonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468378507171761868noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289482511228853984.post-38425986093340819412009-01-18T18:18:00.000-06:002009-01-18T18:18:00.000-06:00Kim -- You are correct. Using the perpetrators' w...Kim -- You are correct. Using the perpetrators' weapons on them is almost karmic. Perhaps, karmic relief.<BR/><BR/>Ken -- The System seems to have the whole process backward -- as if the own's wall causes the problem.<BR/><BR/>1st Mate -- Pink it is!<BR/><BR/>Theresa -- Nothing more need be said.<BR/><BR/>Kadmiel -- Some lessons the police are well-suited to teach.<BR/><BR/>AMM -- Even though the buttock touch was the portion that disturbed me, I was not disturbed enough to criticize it. Had they been my boys, the paint would have simply been the target for my parental hand.<BR/><BR/>On Mexican Time -- I see a rend here.<BR/><BR/>Judy -- Based on the news story, it appears that the fine was it.<BR/><BR/>Ken -- Perhaps we shuld send our votes to the human rights commission? Serious Voice -- 0.Steve Cottonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00468378507171761868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289482511228853984.post-22903520313527019892009-01-18T14:41:00.000-06:002009-01-18T14:41:00.000-06:0011 Aye, 0 no's What,s that tell you?11 Aye, 0 no's What,s that tell you?Tanchohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196129338636347646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289482511228853984.post-86960705820940747072009-01-18T10:23:00.000-06:002009-01-18T10:23:00.000-06:00Hopefully the judge takes this one step further an...Hopefully the judge takes this one step further and says 'You had money to buy spray paint. Now I expect you to buy the paint to cover up the mess you made and provide the labor to do it to the owners satisfaction.' <BR/>My boys still haven't forgotten a five gallon bucket of hot soap water and scrub brushes after 15 years or the whole apartment complex watching as they cleaned up the mud ball mess on a white block fence they and some of the other boys made. JudyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289482511228853984.post-73747563951141473072009-01-18T09:51:00.000-06:002009-01-18T09:51:00.000-06:00I think it was a good one too :)I think it was a good one too :)ElleCancunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09225343993129134601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289482511228853984.post-71590756393792733332009-01-18T00:44:00.000-06:002009-01-18T00:44:00.000-06:00If it were my kids who were the offenders - I woul...If it were my kids who were the offenders - I would be very appreciative to those policemen. Punishment that fits the crime.<BR/><BR/>but - the painting of the buttocks may be a bit to far - the rest okay!Frankly Rondahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03214064414695951062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289482511228853984.post-22006367507314140772009-01-17T21:17:00.000-06:002009-01-17T21:17:00.000-06:00this is a punishment that does fit the crime the p...this is a punishment that does fit the crime the police are not out there to justiy what punishment anyone should get but maybe next time the boys will think twice about spray painting something stupid on the street. or hopefully not at allKadmielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01490691494472226114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289482511228853984.post-88824925377443245202009-01-17T19:12:00.000-06:002009-01-17T19:12:00.000-06:00snicker....Theresasnicker....<BR/>TheresaTheresa in Mèridahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17217945138741786373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289482511228853984.post-19288210746358101782009-01-17T18:39:00.000-06:002009-01-17T18:39:00.000-06:00Maybe it'll start a trend! Only I think they shoul...Maybe it'll start a trend! Only I think they should use fluorescent pink...THAT would be a deterrent!1st Matehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05276608080436409432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289482511228853984.post-38066765996774769492009-01-17T17:25:00.000-06:002009-01-17T17:25:00.000-06:00As a victim of graffiti, I would love to use that ...As a victim of graffiti, I would love to use that as punishment! In the town where I use to have a commercial building the city in their wisdom gave owners 72 hours to remove it. Well guess what, no one calls you back for days, then the city fines you 2500 dollars!<BR/>There has to be a punishment that causes either embarrassment or something worse, otherwise their "expression of art" will continue!<BR/>I am glad that I have trees and not walls down here! They don't make good canvases.Tanchohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196129338636347646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289482511228853984.post-38237720383232451882009-01-17T12:52:00.000-06:002009-01-17T12:52:00.000-06:00"Let the punishment fit the crime."Being forcibly ..."Let the punishment fit the crime."<BR/><BR/>Being forcibly painted as punishment for spraying graffiti seems so very appropriate. And I don't think it would make its way very far up the list of human rights offenses ever committed in Mexico. <BR/><BR/>One wonders, though. Did the police use the perpetrators' own paint on them? Or do they carry their own paint for just such occasions? <BR/><BR/>I personally hope it's the former. <BR/><BR/>Kim G<BR/>Boston, MA<BR/><I>Where it's very hard to tag something that's already covered with snow.</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289482511228853984.post-10904507154625008652009-01-17T11:20:00.000-06:002009-01-17T11:20:00.000-06:00Laurie -- I roared when I read it. Then my lawyer...Laurie -- I roared when I read it. Then my lawyerly sude added a soft tsk, tsk. Then I lauhed again.<BR/><BR/>Michael -- If you and your new Green Party friends bring back the stocks, I will lobby to add litterers to list of potential inhabitants. My Celtic genes tell me that shame is an underused social tool.<BR/><BR/>Brenda -- Odd mix of emotions, isn't it? The head says it is not quite right, but the heart says it is spot on.Steve Cottonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00468378507171761868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289482511228853984.post-28894839861721099342009-01-17T10:46:00.000-06:002009-01-17T10:46:00.000-06:00I agree that the police are not there to mete out ...I agree that the police are not there to mete out justice; but on the other hand how I laughed at what they did. Truly the boys deserved this rather than a slap on the wrist. I am sure this lesson made more of an impression than the fine did.Brenda Maashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03451724306271286173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289482511228853984.post-27057946470723748512009-01-17T10:45:00.000-06:002009-01-17T10:45:00.000-06:00I advocate the medieval stocks as punishment for g...I advocate the medieval stocks as punishment for graffiti brats. A 48-hour stint with one´s head and hands locked into the wood stocks as one sits on a hard stool in the public plaza, oh, that would be so very, very lovely.<BR/><BR/>Bet it would reduce graffiti too, a much-underestimated crime against society.Michael Dicksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01720359542700663699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289482511228853984.post-89695500206692080682009-01-17T08:23:00.000-06:002009-01-17T08:23:00.000-06:00Oh, I think it's funny. I wouldn't be too angry un...Oh, I think it's funny. I wouldn't be too angry unless it was an unfashionable color. Blue or purple hair is a fashion statement for some kids. A few months ago someone added mustaches and beards to many political posters in the capital of Honduras. Even on billboards. All in one night all the signs were decorated. I thought it was a good joke.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05913240698925025195noreply@blogger.com