Posted on 11/06/2012 9:53:33 AM PST by South40
Judge orders Cleveland woman to wear an ‘idiot’ sign after she was caught driving on a sidewalk to avoid a school bus
(Title too long for FR so I was forced to shorten it)
A Cleveland woman must wear a sign labeling her as an “idiot” after she was caught driving on a sidewalk to avoid stopping for a school bus as it dropped children off, a judge ordered.
Shena Hardin, 32, pulled the off-road move twice to avoid stopping for the students, local WEWS-TV reported. The bus driver, Uriah Herron, shot video of Hardin pulling the maneuver in her silver Jeep in east Cleveland on the first day of school in September.
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Pull her ability to drive.
In a previous life I was head of an IT Help Desk.
There was an “Explanation of problem?” field on the “Help Desk Request” form.
I noticed that sometime (really, “often” is more accurate) the technician would put “PEBKAC” in the field. When technicians were conversing with each other on the phone they would explain the problem by calling it an “I.D.- TEN - Tee error.”
I wondered about all that for a long time until I asked what these error codes meant.
Written out, the “ID10T” error code became obvious.
I hesitate to join the “shame on her” chorus.
I’m a law and order guy, but this bugs me a little bit.
I don’t even pretend to be a Constitutional scholar, but the 8th amendment prohibits cruel & unusual punishment.
The term “idiot” strikes ma as a degrading term about a person’s mental capacity.
Don’t get me wrong, I throw the term around a lot and personally LOVE the term. Particularly regarding libtards.
But I’m an individual. It bugs me that a Government official gets to brand an individual citizen with such a degrading term, in an official way.
How long until some liberal judge forces conservatives to stand on street corners with “idiot” signs, as political retribution?
What’s wrong with a fine or other conventional citation? Why the theatrics???
Judges these days strike me as power-mad egomaniacs who love to demonstrate the smallness of the individual (for example, overturning popular votes for their own biases), and the unfettered power of the state over individual Americans.
I don’t like it.
Even leaving the cruel and unusual argument aside, is this really necessary? Judges want to be celebrities nowadays.
LOL!
Everybody also knows you don’t drive on the sidewalk, also.
Somehow I knew what race she was without having to see the picture.
In the few instances Ive read it seems the judge usually give an option. “A month in jail or a week in jail and 3 weeks wearing a sign around town that states youre a moron. Which is it?”
Not quite two years. OCR was a big thing back then (1976), and the government wanted those documents in a computerized format; lots of small companies were doing conversions. We typed from pages ripped out of the original books, on IBM Selectrics with a special OCR element, at a penny per line. I got very good as a typist doing it.
Look at her. Is a sign really necessary?
Where I live in Nevada, you cannot pass a school bus—PERIOD—on either side when the lights are flashing!!!!
idiot (id’i-et), n.
the lowest classification of mental deficiency, below ‘imbecile’ and ‘moron’...
That sounds like coercion to me.
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