{"id":222,"date":"2009-07-24T09:01:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T13:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2009-07-24T09:09:13","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T13:09:13","slug":"is-justice-served","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/07\/24\/is-justice-served\/","title":{"rendered":"Is justice served?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clive sent me this link with the comment “So often we see [stories] about justice perverted. Ridiculous sentences, punishment as an example to others. This one seemed just. Fun too.” This is the end of the Barrel Monster<\/a> story:<\/p>\n

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A North Carolina State University student who created a “monster” out of construction barrels and placed it on the side of a road was sentenced Tuesday to 50 hours of community service.<\/p>\n

District Judge Vince Rozier deferred judgment against Joseph Carnevale until Oct. 30. If Carnevale complies with the sentence, the charges against him will be dismissed.<\/p>\n

Raleigh police charged the 21-year-old history major and part-time construction worker last month with misdemeanor larceny and destruction of property after he took the orange-and-white traffic barrels from a construction site near N.C. State.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Okay, at least Judge Buzzkill didn’t send Carnevale to jail, but what did the “victims” think of the crime?<\/p>\n

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Even Hamlin Associates, the construction company from which Carnevale took the barrels, has become a fan and has asked him to create a replica of the figure that led to his arrest on June 10.<\/p>\n

“It’s been positive publicity for us,” Hamlin President Steve Hussey told The Associated Press in June. “If we’d known he’d do that good of work, we’d have given him the barrels.”<\/p>\n

Authorities pursued the case, despite the construction company’s desire not to press charges. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So the awesome majesty of the state is deployed against a renegade artist, whose “victim” says it’s actually been a good thing for his company and who didn’t want to press charges.<\/p>\n

“The law is a ass — a idiot.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clive sent me this link with the comment “So often we see [stories] about justice perverted. Ridiculous sentences, punishment as an example to others. This one seemed just. Fun too.” This is the end of the Barrel Monster story: A North Carolina State University student who created a “monster” out of construction barrels and placed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,51],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","tag-art","tag-pr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}