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YES! OFF WITH THEIR THUMBS!!
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Mayor: Sever thumbs of graffiti artists!
Nov 5, 11:19 AM EST
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman has suggested that those who deface freeways with graffiti should have their thumbs cut off on television.
Goodman, appearing Wednesday on the Nevada Newsmakers television show, said, In the old days in France, they had beheading of people who commit heinous crimes.
You know, we have a beautiful highway landscaping redevelopment in our downtown. We have desert tortoises and beautiful paintings of flora and fauna. These punks come along and deface it.
I'm saying maybe you put them on TV and cut off a thumb, the mayor added. That may be the right thing to do.
Goodman also suggested that whippings or canings should be brought back for children who get into trouble.
I also believe in a little bit of corporal punishment going back to the days of yore, where examples have to be shown, Goodman said.
I'm dead serious, said Goodman, adding, Some of these (children) don't learn. You have got to teach them a lesson, and this is coming from a criminal defense lawyer.
They would get a trial first, he added.
Another panelist on the show, Howard Rosenberg, a state university system regent, responded by saying that cutting off the thumbs of taggers won't solve the problem and Goodman should use his head for something other than a hat rack.
*CREDITS TO KING5 NEWS*
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that is WRONG! severing thumbs??? shiet that is some corporal punishment. i consider some graffiti artists as great artists.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. That's my kind of mayor! xD j/k
But damn...guess he's really pissed off that those punks.
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lol.
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lmao, i live in vegas..i saw him say it on the news too. i think the article is over exaggerating it. -____-. at the end, he did said he was jokin, but punishment should be imposed on those ppl who ruin the landscape...
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when is the show? I wanna see.
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interesting..i wonder if it will scare off those punks
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Not a bad idea
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I'm really hoping he's kidding :|.
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^ I hope not. Some people just don't learn and have absolutely
no respect for public property. That's MY tax money they're raising
to clean up their W@$T^%&@$%!@#$.
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whippings and canings are so last century...
although mild electric shocks could be a refreshing change to corporal punishment
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what about a constitutional right against cruel and unusual punishment? O_O
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severing thumbs sounds a bit harsh..but I agree that harsher punishments should be put back into practice, as long as if they can have a trial first.
the punishments they give out in north america is nothing. that's why some people who have commited a crime don't stop if they are caught because there's nothing for them to be afraid of
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Stupid idea, even the ultimate punishment--death sentence--proves to be an ineffective deterence against crimes, this will not do any good. How 'bout more rigorous law enforcement eh? Get those policemen to actively go out and bust those graffiti artists and encourage the citizens to partake too.
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i support. off with those thumbs!
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i heard about this over the news a while ago.
