While working for Uncle Sugar, I was sent over to Incirlik to do a staff assistance with a team. I noticed two supply depots next to each other, one Turkish, one U.S. Right outside of the Turkish Depot entrance two bodies were hanging from the fence. I asked about them as they were really stinking from being there a while, and I was told they had been caught stealing from their depot. But since adjustments were made to point out the error of their ways, no one else has tried to steal. Course I felt stripping and partially skinning a person, don’t know if they were alive, is a little strong. But they were quite happy with the results and took them down about a month later when they stunk so bad with decay even they found it uncomfortable.
rwood
Many years ago I was watching an episode of that TV news show, ‘60 Minutes’. I’ll never forget it. They were interviewing the reformist president of some African country. I forget which country.
Anyway, crime had declined dramatically since this man became president. The interviewer asked him why that was. I suppose the interviewer expected to hear something noble like “We reformed our society, from top to bottom.”
“We killed all the bad people,” the president actually replied.
I had a Turkish Navy student once who was arrested for shoplifting and turned over to us on base. We called the military liaison at their embassy and they sent personnel to take him into custody and escort him back to Turkey. Never seen a man so terrified. Never heard what happened.