Think prison…showers….big hairy guys. Yeah, a judge in Sydney, Australia has an interesting way of putting the fear of God into teens arrested for drag racing:
“You’ll find big, ugly, hairy strong men (in jail) who’ve got faces only a mother could love that will pay a lot of attention to you — and your anatomy,” said Magistrate Brian Maloney.
The 19-year-old male appeared in Sydney’s Downing Center Court on Monday charged with driving without a license, failing to stop at a police alcohol check point and driving dangerously.
It was his third time before the courts for driving offences, prompting the magistrate’s warning he would be jailed next time.
Maloney barred the teenager from driving until 2013, placed him on a 12-month good behavior bond and ordered him to do 150 hours of community work.
Breaching any of these conditions would see the teenager jailed where he would “shower with the gorillas in the mist down at Long Bay jail,” said Maloney, his comments confirmed by the court on Tuesday.
I surprised the judge didn’t advise the teen to invest in some soap on a rope, just in case.
The Sydney Telegraph supports the judges warning, as street racing has been an increasing problem in the city.
The newspaper’s editorial backed the magistrate’s warning of life behind bars, saying his comments were “a vision in clarity” and gave the teenager “a reality check of his future.”
Well, I hope that the kid’s been scared straight.
Hat tip: Crime Scene KC
Nice Deb 
Right, nothing says justice like threatening a kid with male rape. Since when is rape sanctioned against anyone, particularly those who have been sentenced to jail as punishment for a crime?
Hmm, change the teenaged boy to teenaged girl and then tell me if you would agree she had been scared straight, because I’m sure you would advocate the young lady be threatened with rape by big hairy men with faces only their mothers could love … right?
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Neither the magistrate (nor I ) was advocating or threatening the kid with rape. He was indeed warning him of the unfortunate realities in many prisons, hoping to “scare him straight”.
From the article:
It was his third time before the courts for driving offences, prompting the magistrate’s warning he would be jailed next time.
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Right, I’m sure here the Magistrate was referring to his pretty blue eyes …
will pay a lot of attention to you – and your anatomy,
Play coy if you wish, but the underlying meaning both you and the Magistrate are echoing is that men get raped in jail by other men, particularly young men.
No mention of the fact that rape is a crime, should be prosecuted no matter where it happens or to whom, just a wink and a nod and a watch out for Bubba chuckle.
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No, of course there was no mention of the fact that rape is a crime. Everybody knows that, already, and it would have diffused the warning.
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Andrew Sullivan wonders if there are judges like this in the USA, and where they are, and what he would have to do to get sentenced by them.
Hey, Humboldt, here’s some advice: If you don’t want to be raped in jail, don’t break the law.
How hard is that?
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