Criminal severity of killing fish
Feb. 5th, 2017 02:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcHaving refused a police caution, Craig Giffard was recently given a 14-week jail sentence suspended for 2 years for angrily getting out of his delivery truck to punch an old man in the face through his car window. In other news, Daniel Challis and Cheryl Stevens were given 18-week jail sentences suspended for 1½ years for Daniel's swallowing a live goldfish.
It thus seems that swallowing a single small fish is about as severe as hitting a seated elderly person. I wonder if that goldfish suffered comparably to those routinely caught in fishing. Is the British fishing industry equivalent to punching all the British elderly in the face many times each year? If so, is it worth it? Or is criminal sentencing strangely random?
It thus seems that swallowing a single small fish is about as severe as hitting a seated elderly person. I wonder if that goldfish suffered comparably to those routinely caught in fishing. Is the British fishing industry equivalent to punching all the British elderly in the face many times each year? If so, is it worth it? Or is criminal sentencing strangely random?
