Carlos Portugal Gouvêa told police he was hunting rats near Temple Beth Zion, where congregants were marking the start of Yom Kippur. [More]
Maybe one was sitting on the car that he shattered a window on, ya think?
If all they ended up charging him with was illegal discharge of a pellet gun, the sentence is actually harsh.
[Via Edmund M]
You would assume that a visiting professor at the Harvard University School of Law and a supposed expert in international law would be more intelligent, but you would be wrong.
Harvard’s motto may be “VERITAS” – the Latin word for ‘truth”, but they would be served by a motto used elsewhere “ACTA NON VERBA” – “deeds not words”. Knowing the truth is fine and dandy, but knowing the truth and not acting appropriately is a major failure.