I bet in a couple of centuries our ancestors will be watching movies about the heroic exploits of Cunning Chav and his band of Happy Slappers.

Islamic style sharia punishment is barbarism.

Victims always take precedent over miscreants. AFTER the victim is cared for, see to the criminal.

Do not take what is not freely given.

Be responsible to your own acts.

Compassion is the ideal. However, first you must remain alive in order to exercise compassion.

Do not return good for evil, return instead justice.

I’ll trust my justice as much or over yours. certainly beyond any boob on a bench or thug in blue.

There is no such thing as divine justice, human justice is flawed beyond use and natural justice just might exist.

Also, true story: A guy I know once had a cat burglar steal all of his winter coats, and NOTHING else. Crazy, eh?

I knew there would be people on here questioning Cory’s empathy when I saw that line.

From what Cory saw we cannot judge whether he was indeed a thief, or perhaps just an adulterer avoiding a jilted husband (or even a drunk out on a lark).

But even if he was a thief we don’t know anything else about him, and who among us didn’t root for Jean Valjean, another thief?

I don’t like theft, and if I came home and my house had been robbed I would be very distraught, but that doesn’t mean I would like to track down the thief and break his legs, I just want my stuff back.

But perhaps that’s just me.

“People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them.” –Buddha

Broken Ankle Guy should have taken the stairs if he had legitimate business in that building. If he didn’t have legitimate business there, he shouldn’t have been climbing up the outside.

Cory, if you can find out how he’s doing or have any follow-up on this could you let us know?

You have to be taught empathy to a certain degree. People who spent their adolescence fetishizing technology are not going to be magically imbued with liberal values. Especially when the culture at large has rejected those values in favor of “The Virtue of Selfishness”.

The only reason we still have some semblance of liberalism today is because the baby boomers held on to their values in the face of the onslaught coming from official media and authority. Once they are gone it will be a very brave new world indeed.

Wanting to torture someone who hasn’t been to trial? Looks like Dick Cheney has hacked some of our user accounts.

Maybe our putative burglar fell off after the call was finished. Maybe the ambulance was called, but the cop cars got there first. Maybe there was an ambulance, but Cory didn’t mention it, or just didn’t see it before he went off to get dressed and brush his teeth.

Someone loses their cable TV reception and you make light of it! Cory, you cable TV subscribers everywhere an apology for your lack of sensitivity.

it is supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. Let the police decide, it’s their job – not yours.

Largely I’d agree with you, but I think on the whole I’d rather have a jury of my peers determine my guilt, not the police. There’s nobody I want deciding who is innocent or guilty less than the police (except perhaps the media).

Maybe it’s Low Quality Spider Man. O_O

“Hey, look, a creeping kid! For my new film, “The Creeping Kid!”

Good thing they weren’t making “Tall Angular Country Veterinarian” outside your window, Cory.

Apparently, some people in this thread think I should be harassed, beaten or imprisoned. It matters more to some people what I might have done than what I actually did. They seem to think there is moral good in preventing me from utilizing my body’s abilities without harming anyone, because I might harm someone – they will harm me if they can, to protect society from my evilness.

Godwin is waiting….

If you break a pipe or cable, you should fix it or pay to have it fixed. And you should never put any weight on cables, stretching communications cables invariably damages them.

Hmmm, also, don’t climb over slate or wooden roofs, and be careful not to damage built-up roofs and shingles.

Doubt it though.

Also, I enjoy learning new ways of spelling English words for mundane objects in everyday life. Kerb. How delightful! I was also unaware of the term “shinning” and had to look it up, but mostly out of my own ignorance and lack of climbing abilities.

Or you could hang the messengers.