Thread: Karma - a true story

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

I'll just go and get my pitch fork, shall I?

Ye haw! Where's the good old fashioned lynching goin' down?

Originally Posted by goingbush

Well mate, that is one strange attitude you have got !

Living in the Tasmanian highlands must have removed you from the possibility of being a victim of crime.

As for ISIS, credit where credit is due, I'm all for chopping off any thieving bastards hand, its just their attitude towards women that I'm at odds with.

Actually I'm only fairly new to Tasmania having moved from Sydney where I was employed as a Law Enforcement Officer.

You may not have an issue with ISIS, but they do with you and would happily execute you as a product of the decadent West. Which is the point that I was trying to make i.e. when people feel justified in creating their own justice regardless of the law of the land they tend to forget that other people with a different moral compass or worldview can do the same.

Yeah, I'm getting that my attitude is "strange" at least to the majority of people posting on this thread.

I can understand your attitude- I just wouldnt like to see it taken to its logical conclusion in a society where I've got to bring up my children.

Originally Posted by bacicat

Ye haw! Where's the good old fashioned lynching goin' down?

Wait, this is bacicat, the super moderator, isn't it?
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Originally Posted by korg20000bc

Actually I'm only fairly new to Tasmania having moved from Sydney where I was employed as a Law Enforcement Officer.

Police or ranger.
Why I ask, was your experience with murderers or stray dogs? If it was with thieves, did you find it a little monotonous arresting the same individuals week in, week out?

And i thought i was a red neck, no-one deserves to have to have a leg partly ripped out and then being mistreated by medical staff.

Maybe i have seen too much summary justice up here with innocent parties being killed, houses burnt down, general rape & mayhem, just because they know the guilty party, and that's just the Police & Army having a day out.

It's a slippery slope once you start that sort of stuff.

Sure lock em up, hard labor in the sun, porridge, and a kick up the bum, but that's about it my book.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Police or ranger.
Why I ask, was your experience with murderers or stray dogs? If it was with thieves, did you find it a little monotonous arresting the same individuals week in, week out?

No, I wasn't a ranger.
I just can't get the attitude.

Say your son has gone off the rails, fallen in with the wrong crowd and, despite your best efforts to help him, has started thieving to support his drug habit. You're walking home one night and see a motorcycle rider trying to flee the police. He comes off and then tries to leg it. With horror you realise it's your precious boy right as he gets hit by a car and then the car stops and backs over him over him. His leg is smashed and he'll never walk properly again.

Is anyone trying to tell be they'd stand there and say something like "Piece of **** got what he deserved...", "Would have been better if that turd was killed.." or, would have a good guffaw with the rest of the blokes who told you that the nurse pulled his catheter out to cause him some more pain?

No.
At least I wouldn't like to think so. You'd act as his advocate, defender or would be pleading for mercy in the hope that he might get help and come right. I don't think you'd just stand by if the crowd of onlookers tried to get their justice either. I can't imagine anyone would not do their darnedest to protect him from that justice.

...whatever. Maybe I just read too much Tolkien.

My my, hasn't this turned interesting.

Mind you all don't fall off that very high horse you're on at the moment...

Scum bag thieves deserve what they get in my book - simple. IMO there are too many do gooders in this world standing up for people's rights who really don't deserve it or wouldn't give a **** about anyone else's rights to start with. Someone who steals someone else's property clearly doesn't care for their fellow man, so why should I give a **** about him?

Am I sounding too harsh? Have you had some low life steal thousands of dollars of stuff from you you've worked your arse off for?

Originally Posted by bacicat

My my, hasn't this turned interesting.

Mind you all don't fall off that very high horse you're on at the moment...

Argh, don't say that.
Its a sad story to me.

I'm not saying the thief shouldn't be brought to justice or didn't do wrong.

Someone who steals someone else's property clearly doesn't care for their fellow man, so why should I give a **** about him?

Because you're a better man than the thief.