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2021-12-15 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Grabbing granny behind San Francisco's looting spree

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Posted by Fred 2021-12-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [18 views ] Top

#1 Most of the punishments that were doled out to such thieves were proscribed by the "cruel and unusual punishment" ban in the Constitution. While mutilation is indeed cruel, it did make a person readily identifiable to all as a thief.

Maybe in the future there will be a biometric way to accomplish the same result? Naaaah. The ACLU would sue for sure.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-15 07:42|| 2021-12-15 07:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe in the future there will be a biometric way to accomplish the same result?

Be very careful what you wish for, MM. ACLU might actually agree to implants if it showed who criticized someone or didn't follow government mandates.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-12-15 08:28|| 2021-12-15 08:28|| Front Page Top

#3 There is an entire culture that thinks retail theft is great fun until they get caught. Then it's a ploy by eeeeevil corporations out to get them.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-15 08:32|| 2021-12-15 08:32|| Front Page Top

#4 People love sci-fi tales of having to painfully excise an implant. Most would never survive a properly directed HERF blast, let alone a few seconds of a gamma knife.

The biometric approach I'm thinking of is facial recognition and doors that can't be casually breached. I'm frankly surprised nobody is currently selling a system that drops everything in jewelry store show cases into a vault below the floor if an alarm is triggered.
Yes, I know that facial recognition is "harming the rights of chador wearers." Tough. Those people can afford bonded "buying agents." Problem. Solution.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-15 08:38|| 2021-12-15 08:38|| Front Page Top

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