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Originally posted by Moses
Years ago in San Francisco 2 young idiots were spray painting buildings. (Self expression or graffitti?)
Two older guys saw them, held them down and proceeded to spray paint the offenders head to toe. Hair, leather jackets, nothing was missed. No punches were thrown-no blood.
Police arrived and took the names of the youthful vandals then arrested the older guys for assault. Only in California.
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Well you know that WAS assault. They could have made a citizens arrest, and held them until the cops came. But instead they tried to take revenge. Vandalism is sensless, and terrible and I have had more than my share of broken windows, key-ings, and midnight hit-and-runs. Those guys could have let the rule of law decide the punishment. Instead the opted for a kind of mob justice. Vandalism is bad but it is only a property crime. Attacking another human being is violence. Justice would have been served if all of them rotted in jail.
I'm really sorry about the broken window. I had all but one window broken out of my Golf once and I continued to finding glass even years later when I cleaned it before selling it.