"run the ba$tards out on a rail! (figuratively speaking)"
Gramma, why figuratively? A few splinters in the hindquarters might help make up for spankings and paddlings these slimeballs, cowards and sellouts didn't get at home or school when they needed it as kids.
I say it's time to GO TO THE WOODSHED with 'em!
Hey! I didn't say that! I'm all FOR the literal way.
It was The Boss who was being nicer than I. (yet again!)
Works fer me...MUD