Man dies doing community service

The Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | Posted on Fri, Aug. 04, 2006 | By Todd Mason, Inquirer Staff Writer

[Hatteras]

It should be a law that all members of a chain gang be allowed a visual image to keep their minds off the heat...

[Richard Kimball]

I've got to acknowledge that the story only tells what he told another worker he was arrested for, and the reporter did not, apparently, bother to check the arrest record.

It this is true, though, a couple of points. It's a lot easier to arrest people who aren't dangerous than to actually go after the bad guys. As to the body temperature not being elevated, if they took a core body temperature at the ER, it would tell if heat exhaustion or heat stroke was present. Core body temperature is a good indicator. However, the heat could be a contributing factor, even if it wasn't the cause. The cause could be a heart attack from exertion and existing coronary conditions. I tend to be skeptical of medical reports, particularly when they involve a governmental entity that may be at fault for the death. They're kind of like the old lawyer joke, "What's 2+2?" "What do you want it to be?"

[NaughtiusMaximus]

" . . . and the innocent we let off with a warning." -
Old KGB motto from Gulag days.

[wolfcreek]

Texas State Parks have the same rule. If it's in a glass container, you're really in trouble

[subterfuge]

The rangers should have just told him to dump it out --if they had that much of a problem with it in the first place. Instead they arrested him?!?!?

You can't meet your arrest quota doing that. I wonder how many Jaywalkers they got that day?

[Tired of Taxes]

after reading about the young man who was arrested for asking a police officer for directions

Where's the story about the young man arrested for asking for directions?

In Philly, a few years ago, a teenager was arrested for calling 911 because he was lost.

[Attillathehon]

Doesn't this fall under the "Cruel and unusual punishment" bit?

[takenoprisoner]

"Instead they arrested him?!?!?"

You are confusing a free state with a police state. Of course they arrested him.

[Drew68]

Where's the story about the young man arrested for asking for directions?

I'd be hard pressed to find the link but it happened a few months ago in Baltimore.

[Drew68]

How is constructing buildings for the county "community service"? Sounds more like involuntary servitude to me.

Exactly. I did some community service as a teenager and it involved sweeping the floors at a public recreation center. A friend of mine sorted files and documents. At both places we were inside and the work was far from demanding.

Lifting concrete blocks is "hard labor" --the type of work associated with chain gangs and incorrigible prisoners.

[sportutegrl]

Did this thread get pulled or something?

I don't think so. It's still here. Was this posted earlier, because I searched on the title.

[sportutegrl]

How is constructing buildings for the county "community service"? Sounds more like involuntary servitude to me.

Just doing the work that Americans unions refuse to do.

[sportutegrl]

Over DRINKING A BEER ? How sad.

Pennsylvania has some of the most antiquated, prohibition era liquor laws I have ever seen, but then I come from Louisiana originally.

[VOA]

Hard labor for drinking a beer while fishing but probation and release
for those molesting our children...sounds about right -sarc

I think that Dennis Prager covered liberal lunacy like this with one old
Jewish proverb.
As best I can recollect it, it says "Those who are kind to the cruel,
shall be cruel to the kind."

(Not saying drinking beer against local regs is "kind", but relative to
child molestation is sure is!)

[JockoManning]

'If not, will it prevent him from voting Dem in the next election?'

'Not in Philly (and a couple of times in NJ too).'

+* +* +* +*

LOL. That doesn't stop them from voting in St. Louis either. Some of the dead people cast multi-votes.

[Drew68]

bttt

[stopsign]

I thought it was a crime NOT to drink beer while fishing.

And it shouldn't be a crime, there are so many laws that it is impossible to not break one sooner or later... : ) <<< me