Canada Rule: Behave or Lose Your Wii

By SpookSpook81. Friday, October 30, 2009 2:12:29 AM

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All right, so it's NOT a general rule...but wouldn't that be something? Canadians have been famous for their bacon for ages, and now they 'make history' by making a 12-year-old surrender his Nintendo Wii in exchange for his freedom. We're not kidding.

The Winnipeg Sun reports that Judge Marvin Garfinkle (it's obvious why the guy's bitter with a name like that) has arranged for a 12-year-old boy, who has been in a lot of trouble with the law lately, surrender his Nintendo Wii as a sort of bail. The terms, the article states, are that the boy keeps peace, appearing for court dates, live with his grandma, and participating in a bail management program. Should the boy fail to honor the agreement, the court gets to keep the console.

He is pledging as a security, akin to a cash deposit, his Nintendo Wii, and if he doesn't comply, he loses it. - Judge Garfinkle


The boy's lawyer, although the brat has spent some time in court already for breaking his school's door windows with a rock-filled sock and chasing and beating another boy, among other mishaps, claims that the boy is not violent but instead just someone who often finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I know it doesn't look good. I've never seen him enraged, I've never seen him upset. He's a 12-year-old who is generally quite scared. - Serena Puranen, Lawyer.

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Comments

Charles SchlossChas4 Friday, October 30, 2009 4:10:59 AM

sad using the Wii as bail will only make it worse, they need to help the boy not make it worse for him

SpookSpook81 Friday, October 30, 2009 6:24:26 AM

I think that if you 'hit him where it hurts' he might be more inclined to comply... unless he's truly a rebel and then things get worse...

J. KingMTKnight Friday, October 30, 2009 12:55:36 PM

Gee, it's little wonder the Peg has the highest crime rates in the country, with miscreants like that little shit running around....

Duaneborri Friday, October 30, 2009 3:29:36 PM


lack of Disiplin

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