This cretin attacked a poor woman with the only thing she had any feelings about.
If any of you have a loved one in a nursing home, check up on them regularly. Ifyou are considering a nursing home for someone, do your homework and check out the place.
Oh, and Snay, you should rough up the judge, too, for giving this @#$% such a pitiful slap on the wrist. I hope her 'community service' isn't around any other life forms.
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She only has to stay out of the business for three years? WTF? They should send her info to every nursing home (and for that matter, every hospital, day care center, school, retirement home, and possibly human being) on the planet, and say that, if she ever even attempts to work in that field again, the police should be called to arrest her again...
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People suck. One wonders how people like that are able to live with themselves knowing they have it within themselves to abuse the helpless. I agree with everything you guys have said. She should never be allowed to work in any branch of care giving again.
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Oooooooohhhhh. I just got the term "keel hauled". Never really put it together with the keel of a ship before. So, what exactly is "keel hauling", then. You tie them by the feet to the keel of a ship, throw them in the water, and let them drag underneath the boat until they stop moving?
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Yeah, right. I'm sure prisoners care about old people.
Anyway, I don't think keel-hauling was a method of execution, but I could be wrong. They put you in the water and then used ropes to drag you underneath the ship, but not lengthwise. Just across the, uh, width.
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From Dictionary.com: "To haul under the keel of a ship, by ropes attached to the yardarms on each side. It was formerly practiced as a punishment in the Dutch and English navies."
I still don't get it, but it sounds like something that might be appropriate for them to do to this woman.
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Bind wrists & ankles. Attach long ropes to both. Throw punishee overboard starboard side & pull (haul) them under the bottom of the boat, home of the keel. The kicker of it was that in those days, ships didn't have any kind of anti-barnacle growth anything, so the bottom was almost always (except for new ships) coated in razor-sharp barnacles which would then cut the shit out of the offender.
Also makes for one of the best Kirk lines ever written in a Trek novel: "Damn it, Spock! This is the second time you've pulled this stunt! First V'Ger, now the Guardian! I swear, if you ever sneak off to try mind-melding with an alien intelligence again, I'm going to boot you out the nearest airlock without a suit! We'll see if keelhauling is possible in space! Understand?"
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Only on this board could a conversation about keel hauling come back to trek.
Anyway. Depending on who was meting out the punishment, keel hauling was either merely a fucked up way to deal with minor infractions or a death sentence.
Captian Kidd once killed nearly a quarter of his crew by keel hauling them through shallow reef.
I often have wanted to see a movie about this.
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Really? What movie? As long as it wasn't "Cutthroat Island" (which is so bad I can't even finish) I'll go and rent it.
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