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In reply to the discussion: A little while ago I had one of the saddest phone calls I have ever recieved. [View all]Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)12. What's sad is some redneck could have shot him and then buried him with a tractor.
Or, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it in 1892:
"Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these dear old homesteads?"
"They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."
"You horrify me!"
"But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser."
-- Sherlock Holmes in "The Copper Beeches"
"They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."
"You horrify me!"
"But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser."
-- Sherlock Holmes in "The Copper Beeches"
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A little while ago I had one of the saddest phone calls I have ever recieved. [View all]
Kali
Jul 2012
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I'll repeat this story the next time I hear a moron complaining about 'illegals."
Gormy Cuss
Jul 2012
#2
One can only hope he's gone on to somewhere farther north and is busy. But you never know.
freshwest
Jul 2012
#3
You're in AZ. I hope he didn't get a 1070. That's just way too sad. I'd look too.
HopeHoops
Jul 2012
#4
I think at this point that would actually be the best news this family could have.
Kali
Jul 2012
#19
The problem of illegal immigration really comes down to one individual story after another.
hedgehog
Jul 2012
#9
What's sad is some redneck could have shot him and then buried him with a tractor.
Spitfire of ATJ
Jul 2012
#12
Still, some people are really good at crafting what they present to the world.
Spitfire of ATJ
Jul 2012
#35
11 Immigrant bodies found in train car (bodies had been in the rail car at least four months)
Omaha Steve
Jul 2012
#14
Now, why isn't the state looking for him? Instead of flying people to HI for Obama's BC?
freshwest
Jul 2012
#29