Garbageman arrested for picking up trash at 5 AM

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vivster said:

Then I wonder why the fines didn't work and the company still sent their employees to do their work at the wrong hours. Or maybe the employee ignored the orders. Who knows.
I just don't like how the people sueing are instantly brandmarked as evil without further knowledge about what exactly went down. A judge doesn't just sent someone to prison for nothing. And there was indeed a violation of rules. The target or the length of the sentence might be debatable but there was a breach of rules and whoever breached them shouldn't be hailed as an innocent lamb either.

Couple of points:

1) I sincerely doubt an employee ignored orders and went to work at 5 AM.

2) I believe the correct terminology here isn't "sued," it's "prosecuted."

3) Sadly, I personally know more than one judge who could potentially sentence someone to jail for little. Some of them probably have...

4) Proportionality is a key aspect of justice. If you are arrested and imprisoned for jaywalking (which you known you've done before, you guilty sheep you), you'd rightly be indignant.

What we have here instead is a prosecutor who decided to twist a law intended to protect people from mildly serious threats to the public health and safety and use it to punish a garbageman (rather than the person who ordered the garbageman to work that early) for doing what he'd been told to do by his employer, and all because someone with pull at the city gets cranky when he's awoken before his alarm goes off.