Does watching Bambi count as punishment?
By John Welford
@indexer (4852)
Leicester, England
December 18, 2018 10:18am CST
A prisoner in the United States, whose crime was illegal deer shooting on a major scale, has been told that during his prison sentence he will be required to watch Walt Disney's cartoon film "Bambi" once a day, every day.
Do you think that this is "the punishment fitting the crime", or just sheer nonsense?
My own view is that having endured it far too often when our son was very young, I could not imagine anything much worse as a punishment!
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5 responses
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
18 Dec 18
That's a bit ludicrous honestly.
A person who was unlicensed or otherwise illegally killing deer doesn't care about said deer.
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@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
18 Dec 18
Perhaps the idea was to make him change his mind - but I can't see how watching a cartoon with talking animals is going to do that.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
18 Dec 18
@indexer I am sure that's what they had in mind. I just don't think it would work. He may have been killing the deer to prepare and sell illegally. I'm doubtful he held any compassion for the animals.
@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
18 Dec 18
Silly concept. It's easy enough to doze off or distract the mind with that movie on.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
23 Dec 18
I don't mind the movie, but for someone that enjoys killing the deer especially more than they should be, maybe this will be just the thing for them to be watching. By the end of his time there, or even before he will be sick of it like you are, or maybe be crying for his actions if the movie gets to him at some lower level. lol.
I'm here looking for your christmas story challenge and ran across this one on the way.
