DH: Let Vandals Wear Pink

Break out the pink jumpsuits and the sandwich boards. They can wear the jumpsuits while they’re repairing the damage they caused. When they’ve completed their community service, let them march up and down Main Avenue with the sandwich boards that explain how they vandalized public property. For far too long we have tolerated scuzzbuckets who ruin things for the rest of us. A report in this newspaper last week detailed how the city had locked up new restrooms at Aqua Park because vandals continued to wreak havoc on the $75,000 taxpayer investment. Priscilla Derry, a former member of the city council, expressed her outrage in a letter-to-the-editor. She said the damage done by vandals disgusted her and that she was tired of seeing her tax money wasted. She asked that the courts do more to punish anyone caught in an act of vandalism. S he’s right/ Dan Hammes , St. Maries Gazette-Record. More here .

Question: How should we deal with vandals who are convicted of their crime?