[Jeff Higgins]

I hate to be too pessimistic either, but it seems our justice system goes after folks who they can fine for something with much more vigor than it goes after those it can't. Once someone falls into that ever growing niche in our society with nothing to lose - monetarily - the pursuit of them seems to stop. Low-level losers like this seem to reach a break over point where they become untouchable. It costs too much to put them in jail (and they really don't care if they wind up there anyway), and they can't pay the fines.

There should be some kind of "lifetime achievement award" for these folks, much like the "three strikes" laws for more serious felons. If, for some reasonable period of time, they demonstrate they just aren't getting it, and will remain a low level pain in the ass of society, we should just get to euthanize them. If that were the clearly defined, consistent result of such a lifestyle, you can bet your hairy ass these people would straighten up and fly right. Or at least we would be rid of them. Today, their actions simply lack any consequences they care about. Call it the "Logan's Run" approach - death at 30 if they haven't done anything by then.