@ficuswhisperer @Melizmatic @nimelennar
You’re all awesome.
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That is so wrong. I think her sentence was too light. She has to apologize?! Lame. Jail time is called for here.
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Only assholes tag.
Watch Shortbus.
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Do you live to troll?
I’d rather she spent her time cleaning up litter and vandalism in public parks.
Incarceration won’t teach her shit except how to be better at crime.
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Probably because he was briefly interesting during his Mechanical Animals phase. Then again, most anyone is bound to be interesting when they model themselves after David Bowie.
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I’m thinking jail time in addition to community service. I’m also thinking of the message that would send to anybody else with designs on doing anything similar in a National Park. (and I am not advocating for an extended jail stay…more like a visit.)
The National Parks should be considered sacred. This sentence doesn’t convey that. Not to me, at least.
She had two years of probation, I believe?
I’m thinking the industrial for-profit prison complex doesn’t need any more cheap labor to help line its pockets.
I hear you on preserving nature, but a few years of cleaning up after other slobs would serve society better than another body in an already overcrowded prison system.
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I guess it might seem that way! I just think that most people think and act too similarly to each other.
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So, hasty, thoughtless categorization?
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Oh, god! That made me laugh so hard. 
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The only thing I’d like to point out, which is only tangentially related, is that accusation of a crime is often reported (both here and elsewhere) as if the accusation is true. I’d love to see people wait for the verdict before assuming.
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I understand what you mean, and I used to be opposed to graffiti in any form, but I hope that you would agree that graffiti on a run down, abandoned building is a lot less detrimental, and somewhat more acceptable than tagging a historical monument or a natural artifact.
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I remember it being Prince in the late 80s/early 90s British school playground.
I agree. There is far too much presumption of guilt in practice currently. There’s an odd amount of trust in police and prosecutors that they’ve fingered the right perpetrator. And there’s far too much incentive for prosecutors to make landmark cases that get in the news and there are a lot of law enforcement agencies that post perp shots even if convictions haven’t been secured yet.
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I will admit I rushed to judgement. I presumed she was guilty when she posted photos of the vandalism to her Instagram account, and the vandalism had the same name as her Instagram account, and when she took credit for the vandalism.
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I wasn’t referring to this particular situation. Read my other comments on this thread. It seems highly likely that she was honest when she admitted to committing these acts and the prosecution seems just. My last comment was in general reference to civilian responses to media or law enforcement publication of criminal charges. A lot of people read “______ was accused of ________ crime” and they think “they probably did it” without knowing much more about the facts of the case. This particular case doesn’t seem to fall into that category.
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