Posted on 02/27/2006 2:43:06 PM PST by Hi Heels
Man sentenced for ride-by bottom slap Sun Feb 26, 8:28 AM ET
BOGOTA, Colombia, Feb 24 - A Colombian man has been sentenced to four years' house arrest for slapping a woman's bottom as he rode by her on his bicycle, sparking debate on whether the punishment fit the crime.
Showing re-enactments of the incident, television news shows were filled on Friday with legal experts offering opinions about the judgment handed down earlier in the week by Bogota's district court.
Some said that to confine bicycle messenger Victor Garcia to his home for four years for smacking Diana Marcela Diaz's buttocks was excessive. Others said it would deter other men.
One program showed three models having their denim clad bottoms smacked so hard by a phantom hand it could be clearly heard by television viewers.
The women said that while the punishment seemed extreme, they hoped the case would mean they would be safer while on foot.
"It happened to me once," one of the models said. "I was walking very relaxed and a guy rode by on his bicycle and, 'ta!' He smacked me. I took off my shoe to hit him with it but he was already too far away."
Let 10 male homosexuals smack the guy's bare ass
sexual assault is a serious crime.
Who knew?
:P
Well I am laughing at this one, sorry.
"Well I am laughing at this one, sorry."
I'm not. Would you still be laughing if the woman who was victimized was your wife or daughter, and some man just came up to her in the street and grabbed her rear end?
Someone who is willing to do something like this man did is probably willing to go farther eventually. What's next for him? Groping, rape?
Better to slap him down hard at the beginning of his criminal career.
I think the sentencing was just. Let's see if he grabs someone's backside 4 years from now. I'm betting he learns his lesson.
The charge should be " Sexual Assault". The rest is hyperbole.
PS: The four years should be accompanied by one beating a year by a drive by baseball bat.
It was a slap.
A slap is not a grab.
Come on. The sentence was ridiculous. And you're getting hysterical. I would have given him a suspended sentence of a week max for this silliness.
Slap! ha ha ha
ROFL! That is true ownage.
The sentence might be a bit stiff but this @hole definitely learned his lesson. He might as well joined monkhood after the four years.
Well this ought to put the fear of God and the Carabinieri into Italian men's hearts.
Someday, the whole world will be all good. No smoking, no drinking, no laughing, no eating, no touching, no running or jumping, no fun, no nothing. But we will all be good and pure and healthy and politically correct and diverse and multicultural and "liberal". I can hardly wait.
I've got my doubts about that hottie.
But did she enjoy it?
4 years house arrest? "oh yeth, it is a therious therious cwime." Any time someone says "How would YOU feel if...." the twit alarms go off in my head.
LOL!!! I not only hurt myself laughing at that but woke the dog up.
"Someone who is willing to do something like this man did is probably willing to go farther eventually. What's next for him? Groping, rape?"
Why, why...sputter, sputter...and the old lady/bad driver who parks with her wheels up on the sidewalk is probably going to go farther eventually. What's next for her--rolling stops, running down a whole kindergarten class field trip?
Hysterical ninny alert. Any honest anthropologist will tell you that men have been slapping women's butts since there were...well, butts. That doesn't justify it, in our day and age, but a little perspective might help. This is PC, spread around the globe. When I see that even conservatives are willing to sign on to it mindlessly, I realize how effective the leftists have been in spreading their measures of control.
Here are the scenarios in how this should have been dealt with:
1. The girl slaps the shit out of the guy.
2. The girl's brothers kick the shit out of the guy.
3. The cop kicks the crap out of the guy, then hauls him to court, where....
4. The judge admonishes him, forces him to apologize to the girl, then fines him a couple hundred bucks and says, Don't let me see you again.
5. The girl's father visits the young man, tells him that wasn't very nice. Then, after judging him and observing him for a while, discerning what he can about his character (and no, a youthful impulse does not define character) he does one of two things:
a.) Tells him if he ever even looks at his daughter, his sons will show up to effect #2, above.
b.) Invites the young man over for a coffee, to apologize to the girl in person...and meet other members of the family.
There was a story last week about a seven-year-old being suspended from grade school for "sexual harassment"--he had pulled a girl's ponytail, or maybe snapped the waistband of her pants, I forget which.
So glad he was slapped down--elsewise, he might have mass-murdered an entire cheerleader squad when he turned 13.
A helluva lot more harm was done that boy than whatever it was he did to the little girl.
Both these incidents are just little pieces of the War Against Men, which we are losing, because of men who are so happy to sign up to fight against themselves.
Geez, he didn't grab hold of her bottom. It was a slap. An incident that lasted a split second. No, it wasn't his wisest move, but I wouldn't call it such a criminal act that it deserved 4 years of confinement in his home. Fine the guy a $100 to be donated to the local women's shelter and let the woman slap him hard across the face and be done with it.
BTW, I am a woman.
Seems like we could use a hand on this thread. It seems to me that after four years of house arrest, this guy's going to have to catch with society from behind, and it seems his only trade is that of a common pedaler, and possibly a handy-man. Certainly a four year sentence will lead to arrested development, no ifs ands or butts.
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