Not Exactly Justice
We've all heard the story of Bernard Madoff, the disgraced former businessman who was allegedly responsible for defrauding individuals, banks and charities out of roughly fifty billion dollars.
How do you punish a man who steals fifty billion dollars?
Well, several Palm Beach teenagers have reportedly taken the law into their own hands and toilet-papered his Florida vacation home. Now, that may seem like a small step, seeing as it's the kind of punishment usually reserved for minor crimes, like running out of fun-size Snickers bars on Halloween, or teaching high school French.
Obviously, this gesture of petulant defiance won't make that much difference in the punishment that Madoff, if he's found guilty, will ultimately receive. But still, as you look back through history, aren't there some figures who you wish might have been on the receiving end of some good, old fashioned, prankster-style abuse?
Adolph Hitler, for instance, committed suicide with the knowledge that his Reich had crumbled. I'd be thrilled if I read that shortly before the Fuhrer took his own life, he heard the doorbell of his bunker ring, and upon answering the door, saw a small fire burning, and stamped it out, only to splatter his immaculately shined jackboots with hot, sticky dog crap, which had been carefully loaded into a brown paper bag and set alight by a pair of indignant gypsy teens.
It's not exactly justice.
But you know, it's a start.
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