Some punishments seem a bit excessive

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I wrote about Vince going to court for carrying his brother on the bar of his pushbike. It reminded me of an article I read once while in a waiting room at the chiropractor’s. We both had appointments and, while I waited for Vince, I read a trucking magazine, mainly because it happened to be on top of the little table and had an article about trucking cattle for long distances. One article was about an old driver/mechanic who came out to Australia following World War II. He was a Latvian by birth and his people had a very hard time during the war. The small snippet which particularly caught my attention was when, as a very young adolescent, he told of walking into a store and forgetting to give the Heil Hitler salute. As punishment, he was made to spend six weeks defusing live bombs. I wonder what some of our young delinquents would think of that. The photo is of part of an old truck that is in the Ravensthorpe museum in Western Australia. Can you see the metal hand which was used to signal that you were turning? If the hand was in a straight line with the metal rod, you were turning right. By pulling a lever, the hand could be pulled at right angles to the rod and meant you were turning left or stopping.