Needlework as Punishment

How very bizarre! Cheryl

Idle hands?? Judy

I know that "wayward" girls were given sewing to keep their hands busy in the past, but this is just too bizarre.

Cheryl

If you didn't enjoy it to begin with, it probably IS an effective punishment.

There are lots of crafty-type things if, given as a punishment, I would view as a punishment (knitting's one of them).

I don't know, it just seems too "touchy feely" to be really punishment. What is he supposed to do while knitting, say "I won't do little girls anymore" with each stitch.

And I think this punishment really demeans everyone of us that has donated a blanket to children's causes (hospitals, families in transistion, etc.)

Cheryl

HMMM -- I think the judge should have had the child molester castrated (without benefit of anesthesia) and then hung up to drain out and die like the rabid snake that he is. Wait a minute, that gives snakes a bad name -- maybe we should call the molester a cockroach instead. Of course, that's not possible so if the bad guy isn't gonna have to do jail time (which is the **least** that he should be sentenced to) then I guess the judge did an OK thing. The bad guy has to do community service and that community service is in the form of knitting lap blankets for the wheelchair bound. It's doing something there is a need for and it's the community service that is the punishment NOT necessarily the knitting. I still think they should torture the sick-o and leave his worthless carcass for the ravens to pick over! CiaoMeow >^;;^<

Oh, you know, I apologize. I didn't read carefully enough to know that he was a child molester. In which case, I have nothing more to say. I find it just too horrific.

Amen! C

I think it was Cheryl who said this story was bizarre, but I don't think that's a strong enough word. Why anyone would think knitting is a punishment obviously knows nothing about it. Soft gentle women knit and I know a big, strong, New York narcotics copy who knits. Why this idiot judge thinks that's a punishment, especially for such heinous a crime, is beyond bizarre and bordering on the insane.

Of course it's also insulting for those of us who knit and love it.

Lucille

"jkwrabbit" had some very interesting things to say about Needlework as Punishment:

Well, instead of hours, he could be sentenced to make 320 pairs of socks.....on size 2 metal double points.....in rayon yarn...black...with only a fifteen watt lightbulb....

Oh you nasty, nasty woman !!!

I still don't think it is enough! Cheryl

"Rosemar" had some very interesting things to say about Re: Needlework as Punishment:

Still not harsh enough for the crime, IMO.

OK, on size 00 needles. Using sewing thread.

Only if the socks will fit 15+ feet!

Cheryl

I missed the beginning of this, what did the punished do to deserve all this???