Given what the kid was doing, I'd almost consider a public caning a justified sentence.
Like it's one thing for kids to get themselves into a little mischief and trouble, but it's quite another when they're actively going around stealing and vandalizing public property just because they're fucking bored.
Isn't this something the Simpsons parodied though? Only I think they changed the details, and had it happen in Australia. And all Bart did was prank some Aussies over the phone and left them with the bill. The final sentence after negotiation was for Bart to go to Australia and receive a public kick in the ass. Which is all quite a lot more humiliating I think for a much milder offense (in terms of how said mischief might evolve over time).
Given what the kid was doing, I'd almost consider a public caning a justified sentence.
Like it's one thing for kids to get themselves into a little mischief and trouble, but it's quite another when they're actively going around stealing and vandalizing public property just because they're fucking bored.
Isn't this something the Simpsons parodied though? Only I think they changed the details, and had it happen in Australia. And all Bart did was prank some Aussies over the phone and left them with the bill. The final sentence after negotiation was for Bart to go to Australia and receive a public kick in the ass. Which is all quite a lot more humiliating I think for a much milder offense (in terms of how said mischief might evolve over time).
I wish they publicly caned Jonny Somali.
Of course he deserved it. He got fewer lashes than Singaporean would have.
People were horrified that "oh a first world country still has corporal punishment." Weak.
It was great advertising for Singapore. After that, no American dared chew a stick of gum for years.