what do you think? good or bad idea?

[Old_Me]

personally, i am in favor of this..

Florida sheriff fed up with school shooting hoaxes posts boy's mugshot to social media

A Florida sheriff fed up with a spate of false school shooting threats is taking a new tactic to try get through to students and their parents: he's posting the mugshot of any offender on social media. Law enforcement officials in Florida and across the country have seen a wave of school...

www.yahoo.com

 

[NMEDGE]

Good idea. Also charge parents!

 

[Cedric]

I'm in favor of it too. It should work, provided of course if the parents have a sense of shame.

 

[Belt Fed]

Tie em to a post in the middle of town and give them a few lashes, show them whimpering like a baby on social media.

 

[somorris]

I understand what the Sheriff is trying to do, but I do not agree with his methods.

 

[ECS686]

The way parents (and a lot of folks) want to put anyone on blast on social media this is hilarious to me.

While you can’t charge parents for a kid running their mouth you can (hopefully) embarrass some into trying to control their kids.

 

[Blackmesa96]

While at first glance it seems like a good idea, it ultimately will give the kid what they want, attention. Also, it seems likely that there will be those kids who think it's "cool" to be singled out in this fashion.

Given the convoluted thought process of teens and their inability to grasp the long term implications of their actions it could backfire. Sadly, I can see a scenario where this actually increases these sorts of threats, especially empty ones.

 

[mikep]

public shaming does wonders... it "takes a village", right? it may be helpful to also show mom and dad coming to bail out their pride and joy.

just edited- the only pitfall may be the overwhelming lack of shame in today's society.

 

[Shibadog]

The little sob’s need some punishment to convince them of the error of their ways. One of the reasons this problem exists is because we’ve got a whole generation who’ve never been introduced to a leather strap applied appropriately to their derrière. The whole “time out” thing, and the “quit crying and Ill buy you something” philosophy may sound sweet, but it sure doesn’t teach the “quit crying or I’ll give you a Reason to cry” lesson.

 

[trader]

sounds like "spare the rod, spoil the child"

 

[papa]

I like the idea but I think the parents should be featured also. They might just have a little more incentive to try to correct the misbehaving youth.

 

[javbike]

Good idea

 

[NMEDGE]

Tie em to a post in the middle of town and give them a few lashes, show them whimpering like a baby on social media.

When we were TDY in Singapore we used to rush back from work so we could watch the public lashings they used to give people on tv. It was an interesting show to watch. They were really strict there.

 

[belladonna]

Some kids (some people in general) need to learn the hard way that there are consequences for stupid decisions. Good idea.

 

[Old_Me]

i think as mentioned earlier, charge the parents as well, since the kid still lives at home, and post the parents pictures as well

let's get the whole family into an embarrassing situation.

at one time up these parts, and i do not know it it is still done, when a hooker was arrested, so was the "john", and he was paraded for pictures.