Family served with eviction notice from Wandsworth Council

[AtW]

Should they stray more than 100m from their house they will be rendered unconscious in the middle of the street, so that any passer by can urinate on them or shave their eyebrows.

[Freamon]

People have been getting away with it cos it's "just a bottle of wine", "just some unpaid car tax", "just a common assault", "just shoplifiting", "just breaking and entering" or "just some victimless white collar fraud" or "just some anti-social behaviour" for far too long. If the courts had spent the last 20 years locking people up for relatively minor first offences you wouldn't have a nation of people who believe they can do whatever the **** they choose without facing any consequences.

I don't disagree. But to do a complete about-face on this policy and start giving people 6 months for stealing some bottled water, first offence, in light of the laxity shown towards MPs expense-fraud etc, just widens the credibility gap that already exists in the eyes of many people.

[doodab]

I don't disagree. But to do a complete about-face on this policy and start giving people 6 months for stealing some bottled water, first offence, in light of the laxity shown towards MPs expense-fraud etc, just widens the credibility gap that already exists in the eyes of many people.

yes, absolutely, but you have to start somewhere.

[centurian]

I propose a technological solution. We could use high tech GPS enabled tracking devices linked to massive doses of sedatives to impose house arrest on anyone convicted of a minor offence. Should they stray more than 100m from their house they will be rendered unconscious in the middle of the street, so that any passer by can urinate on them or shave their eyebrows.

The collars from "The Running Man" seemed to be quite effective in keeping people in a defined area - until an idiot user did the equivalent of leaving the admin password on a post-it note.

[lukemg]

Woman on radio last week saying that it was the lifetime tenancies that were a major problem and that as a punishment people can be put on 6-monthers. This is then reviewed in terms of behaviour/criminal activity and circumstances of occupants and renewed or cancelled as necessary. Just the threat of this is enough to keep many in line. But it's not faaaaaaiiiiirrrrr, fine, feel free to make alternative arrangements for yourselves.