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If he was in Russia. He would be dead on the first night. The prisoners doesn't take it lightly on Rapists, pedophiles, etc
Load More Replies...Yap..just put the pedophile in a cage of hungry tigers for 3 days and lets see what happens...
Pedophiles should be killed. They can't be rehabilitated. In cases where there is substantiated proof- esp if they have acted on their disgusting twisted thoughts. Just kill them, incinerate their remains and be done w/them. Tax payers shouldn't have to pay for BS rehabilitation or their (PATHETICALLY inadequate) sentences.
So you are saying you are not a fan of pedo's? It's hard to tell. You seem kinda on the fence.
Load More Replies...Yes good old England were we give pedophiles s**t sentences, hence the reason Jamie Bulgers killer repeatedly re-offends and still has his life long anonymity, benefits and housing. What a p**s take
Agree about 3 years being too little, but hey, where's the love for the robbers? They owned up to the wrong they did in order to fight a worse crime. No honor among theives my a*s. Thanks for doing the right thing guys!
Meanwhile, in America, I am currently dealing with a pedophile running amok amongst our illness support community and we cannot have him arrested because he's both sick and hiding behind his parents' money. There's much evidence stacked against him but neither the FBI nor the local authorities in his area will do anything until he physically harms a child.
That's called due process. You have to be caught committing an illegal act. If he's creepy, that's unfortunate. If you're certain he's guilty of a crime, then present the evidence to the police.
Load More Replies...No one is good or bad– everyone's a shade of gray…although I would say pedophiles are all very dark shades of gray.
Does anyone know why the comment system of Bored Panda often replies to everyone than just one person?
This section seems to be really weird. Sometimes it looks like you've posted multiple times (but then later it only shows up once after appearing to you several times); you can reply to some people but not others, you can't edit or delete your own posts. We've all complained about it many times but have never gotten any response from BP. It's very frustrating.
Load More Replies...He deserved to lose his life - in a very slow and painful way! I can at least hope that "Bubba" got a hold of him while in prison those 3 years and made him his "Precious" - so he could have a taste of what he has done to children.
He's mentally ill, and you want him to die a slow painful rapey death for it? There's no evidence that he did anything other than view the photos. If you're that worried about him abusing kids, then lock him up to make sure he never does it (which is also messed up) but to want to have someone die in a painful and slow way for viewing photos and having a mental illness is really messed up.
Load More Replies...Well they could have binned the laptop and no one would have known what they did. They risked doing time to protect children.
Load More Replies...They weren't dirty. He knew the Pap's would be waiting outside the stage door of EQUUS every night, so he'd bring the same outfit and wear it home every night.I'm pretty sure he had it washed.
Good! Get the bastards. Child slave labour and molestations are rampant. They are disgusting people- I'm SHOCKED they aren't out for these guys how they are for the polygamy cults. They SHOULD be. They aren't just crazy, they r CRIMINALS.
Someone who got voted down mentioned "China Girl". If you pay attention to the lyrics, you will understand that it's about the subjugation and annihilation of Asian cultures by Europeans. Similarly, if you listen to the lyris of "Fashion" carefully, you can see it's about political and social leanings. In particular, it's about how the higher status people copy the style and culture of lower status people despite decrying it as inferior. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/01/20/how-david-bowies-china-girl-used-racism-to-fight-racism/?utm_term=.17ae4ff2b7c7
If I am remembering it correctly, PoC movie did have one female Chinese pirate in the sequence where they showed a meeting between all the pirates.
i wish they name the next one after Trump or Pence and then we'd hear it on the news: "Trump is causing great distress in the state of Louisiana!" or "Here we can see Pence wandering aimlessly"
This shows the humanity of a number of Germans in contrast to how the nation had been swayed to follow Hitler blindly. Its a brilliant fact and I'm glad you shared it.
The US national anthem's melody is based on an English song, BTW. (Another fun fact: the melody of "My Country Tis of Thee" is the same as "God Save the Queen" which is taken from a Prussian song, "Heil dir im Siegerkranz", 'coincidentally' the British monarchy is an extension of various German monarchies. So WWI was nothing more than a family feud, using millions of people as pawns.)
The divers were using an underwater communication system and the captive male beluga imitated their order to get out of the water and the diver surfaced thinking it was real. He had learned to imitate the patterns and frequency's of human speech, after several years he stopped doing it. Belugas rock :) they also shout like children in the wild, and the bump on their head is used for echolocation and scientifically called its "Melon"
Perfect illustration of how priorities differ from one discipline to another!
...but then the Stark foundation developed a serum/process to give him super strength and thus, Captain America was born.
she can run at the age of 70 and I debate whether a shower is more important than sleeping for extra 20 minutes.
This is a good one. And nowadays, for people who can only wear a shoe on one foot, there are groups/stores who sell single shoes, while only able to wear for example the left shoe. They let others buy the right shoe and vice versa. At least I know this is a (small though) thing in my country.
Well there you go. But its sad that a life was taken to prove a very important safety fact. Some of the laws are there to help you and keep you safe, I wish more people understood that.
"wrestled the 200-pound shark to shore" That's superlative of Badassery.
The nutrient-rich soil conditions are due to high concentrations of organic matter buried below. Don't assume that some divine order of things are playing a hand here; it's simple chemistry and biology.
Just. Why. I'm an atheist, I don't like most of the religious views or the priests, but the last 2 popes were so damn awesome, why would someone shoot the pope?
So, engineers are no smarter than slime mold? What does that say about the rest of humanity. lol ;P
"Gee, this is great!" Ah to be thirteen again. I say the same thing when I go to bed at night.
Well my horoscope for today read that I would get to know an unknown fact. :P
I love the history of clock-making and watch-making. It seems to me that this is the foundation for much of the technology that we use and enjoy today!
I showed up but the damn Brits reverse their months and days in dates.
Pink Floyd's double album 'The Wall' starts with a quiet voice saying ..."where we came in?" and ends with "Isn't this..."
Some in Sweden say that he was Astrid Lindgren’s inspiration for Pippi Longstocking’s father. Although, I cant find the source now.
This is the only time I will EVER cheer for the Yankees. (Go Phillies!)
They act like cats, they smell, are very noisy,are destructive and require special care. But they are adorable
This is true I'm in highschool and waking up at 6:00 in the morning is ridiculous considering the fact that so many kids are sleep deprived like my older sister who stays up all night doing school work
And I'm all like, wait, their Rite Aids have ice cream by the scoop???? WTF??? OUR Rite Aids where I live don't have that. In Hollywood, even the drugstores are better.
Or there could be a man, that was born in Austria-Hungary, went to school in Czechoslovakia, got married in Soviet Union and died on Ukraine without ever having moved from Uzhhorod.
Perhaps the following scientists apparently never cheated nor helped anyone cheat in exams
Read her story...It is hilarious what our world of media & powerful attorneys can achieve. This woman Mrs Gimenez basically f****d up the centuries old Jesus fresco, but with all the media causing a stir, people & tourists actually started going to the church to see this terrible job, and someone started a Petition online to support her vision! She ended up filing a copyright claim...for this! HHAHAHAHAHAHA
According to Wikipedia this is a crater lake and "a pocket of magma lies beneath the lake and leaks carbon dioxide (CO2) into the water, changing it into carbonic acid." ..."over time the water becomes supersaturated, and if an event such as an earthquake or landslide occurs, large amounts of CO2 may suddenly come out of solution."
Marilyn Monroe showed a lot of courage in other respects as well. She stood by her husband, Arthur Miller, when he was accused of communism in the McCarthy-era, singlehandedly took on the very powerful studio system to negotiate a better contract for herself by relocating to New York for a year and spoke publically for equality and against racism. And last year unsealed church records showed she'd paid for someone's funeral when the family had been unable to, but making it seem like the church had done so.
I'm not Christian and don't know every detail of the story but the fruit came from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil which God told Adam and Eve to eat from so it can be interpreted as both Good and Evil passed through Eve and went to her sons, Cain and Abel, as Cain later killed Abel.
There is no such thing as an Ex-Marine. It's former Marine. Calling a former Marine an Ex-Marine is a huge insult to us.
Where's George Washington when the country (and the world) needs him?
It's a shame that this information didn't filter through to the people responsible for executing ten years later the Texan who was accused of killing his family by arson...
This was the last Statesman the US has had as a politician, worried about what was best for America as a whole and not for himself.
Truth be told, it would probably do just that. People don't care much for Australian dollars outside of Australia, but I can see people wanting Dollarydoos just for the heck of it.
Who the frack cares about his impact speed? He fell out of an airplane and survived, Jaysus! Go tell him that it's "his final velocity that matters, yawn." I'm sure those horrifying seconds will remain with him forever, I know they would with me. Imagine the fear of two chutes failing and what the ground would seem like as it was rushing towards you and you're thinking, I'm about to die!" I doubt his impact speed was the last fecking thing on his MIND!
sad to know he had to go through so much to receive the acceptance of his parents.
i love this guy he has made my favorite game legend of zelda i love it love the action n the game and getting to control the game awesome
I always buy Arizona Tea whenever I'm on the road. It's nice to know something so tasty is so cheap. :D
According to whom? Is this an actual law? The problem I see with this is that you'd NEVER get the airline to admit that it was their action that caused the wait. They'd lie. Airlines will say and do anything to avoid responsibility. They'll never admit any wrongdoing. I was recently on a plane that the captain announced they had mechanical difficulties and the entire plane had to deplane and sleep on the floor of the airport overnight. The captain announced it! To the entire plane! The airline later said it wasn't their issue, that it was inclement weather. It was incredible. After a lot of back and forth I got my satisfaction but this is the way it is now.
I have the exact opposite condition. I can sleep for 24 hours and yawn and be sleepy for the next 12 before needing to go back to sleep.
So he's the one to blame for tons of plastic rubbish from waterbombs…
Has no one thought to add an adulterant that makes it too bitter to swallow?!
Incidentally after the state investigation, speeding went up by 76%, just nobody got ticketed.
Not so genius, amendments are the norm, not the exception. The problem with the US constitution is it hasn't adapted to the modern world, still stuck in the 18th century.
Poor kid, no childhood do we really wnat to do this to our kids again?
now THAT explains it - I was so mad they didnt do that in the movies but I guess this is a good reason
From Wikipedia: "Neighbours had assumed the flat was unoccupied, and the odour of decomposing body tissue was attributed to nearby waste bins. The flat's windows did not allow direct sight into the accommodation. Drug addicts frequented the area, which may explain why no one questioned the constant noise from the television. Half of her rent was being automatically paid to Metropolitan Housing Trust by benefits agencies, leading officials to believe that she was still alive. However, over two years, £2,400 in unpaid rent accrued, and housing officials decided to repossess the property. Her corpse was discovered on 25 January 2006 when bailiffs had forced entry into the flat. The television and heating were still running due to her bills being continually paid for by automatic debit payments and debt forgiveness."
Let's do away with pennies, nickles, dimes in the US. Why has the US become SO afraid of any change?
For the second time on this thread I will say it - this is why I oppose the death penalty.
"Information" without reference or source is not information, it's rumours and gossip.
I think this is more of something you’re supposed to scroll through while you’re pooping and less something you’re supposed to cite in your thesis.
Load More Replies...My god I can't believe I read all of these. At one point it was a challenge between me and the article to see will win. I feel accomplished. And sad because I feel accomplshed by that.
Most of these are very poorly written, which makes me doubt their veracity. Disappointing.
"Information" without reference or source is not information, it's rumours and gossip.
I think this is more of something you’re supposed to scroll through while you’re pooping and less something you’re supposed to cite in your thesis.
Load More Replies...My god I can't believe I read all of these. At one point it was a challenge between me and the article to see will win. I feel accomplished. And sad because I feel accomplshed by that.
Most of these are very poorly written, which makes me doubt their veracity. Disappointing.