News.com reports on the case of two US teenagers, who posted a malicious “fire in the hole” video on YouTube. In it, they ordered drinks at a fast-food restaurant, then threw them over the attendant as she gave them their change. In addition to clean-up costs and 100 hours community service, the judge sentenced them to post an apology on the video-sharing site. This is a great common-sense sentence, with those involved in formulating the sentence realising that the best way to make the punishment fit the crime - and deter others from doing the same thing - is to humiliate the perpetrators for the world to see, in the same way they humiliated their victim.

The full article is on CNET News.com, here.

Posted Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 @ 5:39 pm
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