Florida man breaks into woman's home to pet family cat

[God Save The King]

Is there even "mental rehabilitation" in US? I've never heard of someone who's sent to the shrink rather than the slammer to make Bubba's acquaintaince.

Very rarely, but forced check in to a mental institute does happen, but unfortunately it's reserved more for people who have not committed a crime. I.e. when I was growing up, my sister threatened to kill herself in-front of medical professionals after consuming a bottle of Tylenol. She was forced to be committed to a mental institute for 7 days. This was the state of Pennsylvania

She also was struggling with depression swerved into traffic, intentionally, while her child was in the car. Legally she could have gone to prison, instead they settled on probation for a few months, sending her child away to its father, and 2 months of mental rehab. This was in the state of Washington

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Do you remove their right to vote too? Like wingnuts suggest half the time? I'm only asking in curiosity, because then Trump just lost the election, as red states are the biggest welfare recipients.

Well felons can't vote, so just make being poor a felony. Problems solved!

[JohnBrown1917]

Start imprisoning the poor. Raises our median/mean incomes as well.

Don't give them ideas.

[Mistame]

Well, it was funny for five posts or so. Then it just got stupid. ^^

And that right there is why your justice system is totally fucked.

It's fucked because of people getting locked up for weed. Some creep breaking into someone's home should get prison time.

[JohnBrown1917]

Well, it was funny for five posts or so. Then it just got stupid. ^^



It's fucked because of people getting locked up for weed. Some creep breaking into someone's home should get prison time.

Their exists a difference between a 'long time' and going to prison.

[Aoyi]

This sounds to me like he needs mental help if he did just break in to pet the cat. I don't think sending him to prison is necessarily the best course of action here as he doesn't seem to be a real threat. Also, wtf with the woman hoping he goes to prison for a long time. I could understand wanting something to be done, but he was just petting her cat, not trying to kill her or even just trying to steal anything.

Apparently a commenter on that website feels the same as her:

He has to be insane for doing this he should remain behind bars for a very long time because he will do it again but t he next time it could be much much worse and that is fact.

2016. Where conjecture is fact because a random idiot says so.

[Mistame]

Their exists a difference between a 'long time' and going to prison.

"A long time" is inherently relative. Considering that he actually came back, 5x5 (served/probation) sounds about right.

[Dug]

Sounds to me like he's mentally unstable. I think a psych ward would be more beneficial than imprisonment.

[Shahad]

Sounds to me like he's mentally unstable. I think a psych ward would be more beneficial than imprisonment.

Or that cat really reminds him of his childhood pet Oliver that tragically died after getting hit by a car when he was 6.

[ItachiZaku]

The man. The myth. Florida man.

[Santti]

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with Florida?

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She was just jelly he paid more attention to her cat than to her.

[Mistame]

You dont really understand my point at all.

To be fair, your point is vague, at best.

[Tijuana]

http://www.local10.com/news/weird-ne...pet-family-cat

We have missed you, Florida Man, while we were distracted by politics the past few months.