Community Service

[chrisgel]

Hi All,
I went down to my allotment for an hour this morning and there were 4 young lads busy re-laying paths and generally tidying up. They were all wearing Hi-Vis vests with the words Community Payback in large lettering on the backs.
Please don't for a minute think I felt any sympathy for them but it got me thinking.
Wouldn't this be classed as "Cruel and Unusual Punishment" under the Human Rights legislation? Surely it's a small step away from making them sit in the stocks and have rotten tomatoes thrown at them.
By the way I'm happy to report they all looked as miserable as h**l.

[society]

Maddy, I don't understand why you think it's disrespectful. I assumed they've committed a crime and this is their means of punishment.

I don't see anything cruel in what they are doing.

[ummmm]

They still have to go to probation whilst doing CS.

[MadMen]

Disrespectful to the pensioners, soc. In the example I gave in my post - not the OP.

[RATTER15]

I wouldn't trust them to push my elderly relative around in a wheelchair. I suppose it does depend on their crime and their character, they aren't all drunken knife wielding thugs I suppose.

[MadMen]

Exactly! I just think the elderly deserve a bit of respect and having someone forced into pushing them around, as a way of avoiding prison, is totally disrespectful. I wouldn't be pleased if it were one of my relatives either.
Gardening and litter picking, yes, but leave the biddies alone.

P.S Ratter, I think I overdosed on Lucozade :( Feel even worse now. lol