I remember this one. The kid was an entitled brat, he FAFO the hard way.
He was more than old enough to know what he was doing.
iirc he was sentenced to 20 lashes, in 5 sets of 4? Because each lash will leave a HUGE welt & probably break the skin too. It got reduced to a lower number, and iirc he really did get 4 before the diplomats "rescued him".
He spent 'hard time' in jail too. Good! Every vandal should get the same.
It was a foreshadowing of what the leftists would become: glorify criminals no matter how pathetic they were, demand 2-teir "justice" based on ever-changing criterium.
Yeah, I looked it up and it was only 6, then reduced.
Perhaps the normal penalty was 20? But he only got 6 because he was American? He was 18 when he did it, and 19 for the trial, so he wasn't "a kid" anymore, even if by maturity he was still 11 😑
the part that pissed me off as a kid was his supposed argument that if he had known the punishment was so severe, he would never have done it, as though that was supposed to justify leniency.
Then again, i heard it was ten, not six, so take what i say with a pinch of salt.
I remember this one. The kid was an entitled brat, he FAFO the hard way.
He was more than old enough to know what he was doing.
iirc he was sentenced to 20 lashes, in 5 sets of 4? Because each lash will leave a HUGE welt & probably break the skin too. It got reduced to a lower number, and iirc he really did get 4 before the diplomats "rescued him".
He spent 'hard time' in jail too. Good! Every vandal should get the same.
It was a foreshadowing of what the leftists would become: glorify criminals no matter how pathetic they were, demand 2-teir "justice" based on ever-changing criterium.
I read about this case in criminal justice class in school.
He was sentenced to be flogged, six lashes, later reduced to four as a response to the outrage. Flogging is known as "caning" in Singapore.
He deserved six. FAFO indeed.
Yeah, I looked it up and it was only 6, then reduced.
Perhaps the normal penalty was 20? But he only got 6 because he was American? He was 18 when he did it, and 19 for the trial, so he wasn't "a kid" anymore, even if by maturity he was still 11 😑
One article said he got scars from it. Good!
the part that pissed me off as a kid was his supposed argument that if he had known the punishment was so severe, he would never have done it, as though that was supposed to justify leniency.
Then again, i heard it was ten, not six, so take what i say with a pinch of salt.