The sheer directness of the approach Chinese police have taken to shaming their creepy toilet peepers has been winning some admirers overseas.
His crime was apparently the voyeuristic staple of spying on hapless ladies going to the toilet.
Whether this is any more effective in discouraging perverts than the traditional approach of merely splashing their name in all the papers is not clear, although it seems doubtful the mass media in other countries could be persuaded to come out without the prospect of something significantly more salacious.
The “public execution” of criminals by way of media shooting squad is a Chinese staple – although normally such theatre is reserved for those guilty of more serious crimes.
I’m a bit conflicted by this style of punishment. On one hand they really do deserve to be made public so people know who to keep an eye on. But on the other hand it could spawn even worse retaliation crimes. If it was me deciding these sorts of things, I’d offer it as an option, with anyone taking that option having their fees reduced by a small amount. Kind of like how you can opt in to public service to reduce the sentence on misdemeanors in the US.
Ah yes, that fine American tradition, the perp walk, refined and perfected in Asia…SSDD.
Is China stuck back in the middle ages or something?
Oh wait, they don’t have the concept of “human rights” over there.
Even criminals should have the right to privacy. You might as well castrate him and hang him in the middle of a city square.
I do plan to watch you give your little holier-than-thou “human rights” speech after someone rapes and kills your mother and cuts your balls off, and get acquitted in court due to society’s sick obsession with bureaucracy in the name of equality and rights.
I love how the “China Menaced by Exploding Toilet” post is in the related articles.
Here in the states we could never do this. The liberals would get all up in arms about his feelings having been hurt. And then the ACLU would sue on his behalf…….