October 17, 2004

The case for public floggings

Meredith and I were coming back from Salt Lake City today. In the waiting area in the airport was a teenage boy, probably about 16, lying on the floor talking on his cell phone. I isuccessfully gnored almost his his entire conversation, but was unable to avoid hearing this snippet:

"Yeah, and I stole a bunch of my grandmother's silverware, too. Yeah, it's awesome. It's really nice silver, too -- she's had it forever. Yeah, I got like five forks and spoons. I'm gonna melt it down to make into bracelets or something. Want one?"

Perhaps Singapore has the right idea with public floggings after all.

Posted by Mike at October 17, 2004 09:14 PM