news.yahoo.com — PAINESVILLE, Ohio - A Salvation Army worker who was ordered by a judge to spend a night homeless for stealing a holiday kettle containing about $250 returned to court Friday with red eyes and red cheeks. The worker was fitted with a GPS device to track his moves, so there was no getting out of it.
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copperplatedJan 27, 2008
I can understand this sentence (along with the jail time and community service he has to do), but why is he also order to get a GED and a job? That's kind of weird.
jphicksJan 27, 2008
So, he doesn't have a job and lives with his mom and worked as a volunteer with the Salvation Army. None of this may work, but I suppose it is possible this entire sentence could, in theory, turn his life around. Here's hoping.
msaleemJan 28, 2008
I would rather live in lawlessness than in a land where such people are making the laws.
andystitzerJan 28, 2008
Judges don't make laws.
captainnopantsJan 28, 2008
It's a ridiculously stupid punishment.
drleephdJan 30, 2008
It's stupid forcing someone to live as a homeless person for stealing money which would have benefitted the homeless?
drleephdJan 30, 2008
true. they don't. +1
drleephdJan 30, 2008
interesting. Not murder, but involuntary manslaughter at best / worst. I think not though. If a judge sentences someone to a particularly dangerous and violent prison and they get stabbed... etc.