{"id":45884,"date":"2018-05-22T10:38:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T14:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45884"},"modified":"2020-08-07T10:38:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T14:38:25","slug":"now-thats-some-hardcore-ownage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45884","title":{"rendered":"Now that\u2019s some hardcore ownage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignright wp-image-45885\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/judge_olson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/judge_olson.jpg 800w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/judge_olson-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/judge_olson-768x982.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2018\/05\/21\/teen-who-started-massive-oregon-wildfire-with-fireworks-must-pay-36-million-judge-rules\/?utm_term=.5527fd6d123f\">Applause for draconian punishment<\/a>: dumbass teenager who threw a firework that resulted in a gargantuan forest fire sentenced to pay $36 million dollars in restitution<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Step aside, Smokey.\u00a0 You ain\u2019t done SHIT in 64 years.\u00a0 Kids have continued to play with fire and idiots have continued to inadvertently start fires that have resulted in god knows how much damage and carnage to nature throughout the last century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But Hood River County Circuit Judge <strong>John A. Olson<\/strong> sentencing a 15-year old to pay $36 million dollars in restitution?\u00a0 Now THAT\u2019S going to make some dumbasses think twice on whether or not it\u2019s worth playing with fire and risk starting a blaze and getting caught and facing the gavel themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I really love this story, because far too often, America has seen people who have done terrible things get away with merely metaphorical slaps on the wrists.\u00a0 Draconian punishments would undoubtedly make people think twice or three or four times on whether or not a bad choice is worth the punishment, and if only America would go a little dark side and apply more of them, then maybe this country wouldn\u2019t be so full of shitheads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Of course, this 15-year old idiot won\u2019t be able to pay $36 million dollars back in his lifetime, unless he invents <em>Fortnite<\/em>2 or something.\u00a0 The likelihood of this dumbass seeing a million dollars in his lifetime is highly unlikely as well, but it\u2019s pretty awesome that Judge Olson even bothered to declare a finite number to his punishment.\u00a0 It reminds me of those stories where a murderer gets like two life sentences plus 75 years, as if there were any chance at all that the perp was going to live to be 285 years old in the first place.\u00a0 I feel like those are meant to be demoralizers not just to the punished, but also to send messages to any other would-be criminals to think multiple times on whether or not the crime is worth the punishment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But as for the idiot pyro, he\u2019s probably going to live the rest of his life knowing that absolutely nothing he ever earns is going to be 100% his.\u00a0 His inevitable job at Wendy\u2019s?\u00a0 50% of that paycheck is going towards that monumental debt.\u00a0 He\u2019ll be a burden onto pretty much everyone else in his life from his parents, to if he ever finds some semblance of normalcy to get a girlfriend or partner.\u00a0 Eventually, he\u2019ll be resented by everyone in his life because he\u2019ll never have any money, and he\u2019ll be a massive leech to them and the rest of society, and they\u2019ll probably have preferred he went to prison and died or something.\u00a0 And knowing that kind of sentiment exists for him, is a whole other punishment in itself, independent from the financial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-45886 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/smokey_bear.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/smokey_bear.jpg 400w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/smokey_bear-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Smokey the Bear couldn\u2019t have been any more wrong.\u00a0 Preventing forest fires can\u2019t possibly be the responsibility of individuals, because the vast majority of them are far too stupid to be able to resist.\u00a0 But if Judge John A. Olson takes Smokey\u2019s place, then ONLY HE will be, and will likely succeed at preventing forest fires from then on.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Bravo, Judge!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applause for draconian punishment: dumbass teenager who threw a firework that resulted in a gargantuan forest fire sentenced to pay $36 million dollars in restitution Step aside, Smokey.\u00a0 You ain\u2019t done SHIT in 64 years.\u00a0 Kids have continued to play with fire and idiots have continued to inadvertently start fires that have resulted in god &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45884\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now that\u2019s some hardcore ownage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[112,30,52,124],"class_list":["post-45884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-crime","tag-justice","tag-owned","tag-trolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45887,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45884\/revisions\/45887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}