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happeningthang



Joined: 26 Apr 2003

PostPosted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I-am-me wrote:
I followed this story from the beginning. It was never a "beating". The korean police and prosecutor came out with that version. The korean could not even recall who it was that hit him so the whole thing is questionable.

"The taxi driver initially told police that Carpenter hit him, but later changed his statement, the South Korean judge said."





The soldiers confessed in similar fashion.

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The men gave contradictory accounts throughout the trial of what happened that night, with each placing the most blame on the others.
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TexasPete



Joined: 24 May 2006
Location: Koreatown

PostPosted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:47 pm    Post subject: Re: Americans sentenced in Korea Reply with quote

happeningthang wrote:
I-am-me wrote:
2 Americans sentenced for allegedly beating taxi driver. We all know koreans embelish their stories to get more money.

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=49233


How can you read that story, written and published by the American army, in which the soldiers confess their guilt in court, pay damages and take up the bible to demonstrate their contrition and good intentions ... and then all you've got to say is, "Koreans embellish their stories to get more money"?


Yeah, i particularly enjoy the part of the article where the soldier's like, "What gives? I opened up a bible and everything! How can they actually sentence me to prison, the jerks!" I'm sorry, but i'm getting a might tired of using Jesus/the Bible as a means towards reducing sentences (celebrity gets in trouble and the next paparazzi pic you see of them, they got a bible in one hand and maybe a Kabala bracelet on the other). If you entrap a cabbie, then beat the everliving aitch ee double--toothpicks out of someone, causing nerve damage and other injuries, you deserve to do some time no matter how much hush money you've paid to the Koreans.
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stevemcgarrett



Joined: 24 Mar 2006

PostPosted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There are 38,000 American military personnel in Korea (officially, at least--probably a thousand more advisors scattered in government agencies).

This has been blown out of proportion in the Korean press like everything involving foreigners.

Isn't it cute how those three but-t-ugly girls are carrying signs with the F-word on it.

Every time I see this kind of lame protest I fervently wish we'd just leave the peninsula and the Koreans to their own devices. Then let the South fret over the North. It would serve them right.

In Hawaii, we get tens of thousands of Korean tourists every year now and some get into trouble with the law. But do you see organized protests against them in Waikiki? (That's a rhetorical question)
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CentralCali



Joined: 17 May 2007

PostPosted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

stevemcgarrett wrote:
There are 38,000 American military personnel in Korea (officially, at least--probably a thousand more advisors scatterehd in government agencies).


Do you have any idea at all of what you're talking about?
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PGF



Joined: 27 Nov 2006

PostPosted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 10:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The AFN has constant commercials regarding breaking the law in a foreign country and which laws apply to the offender. Obviously this guy did not watch TV while in Korea.

Even if these dic8ks did not beat the living shi0t out of the cabbie, they are responsible for trying to steal his cab to get to a "nightclub". In the process, they sure threatened him. In the states a threat of bodily harm is equal to bodily harm.

The guy overpowers a cab driver with his buddies and steals his car. He's drunk, so fiucking what? 3.5 years is nothing for a violent crime.

All violent offenders, drunk or not should do hard time.

Free up space in prison for those assh0les by letting some non-violent offenders free; here and in other countries.

PTSD? Give me a f8cking break. Veterans of foreign wars that would have ended up as trash on their own country's side-walks anyway go on to become that trash regardless of if they served or not.

That sort of defense gives those who actually served in harsh conditions and have PTSD and manage to get by without being social retards a very bad name.


We, (those of us who are-Americans), bitsch all the time because of the light sentences handed down back home when some violent as=s9hole gets probabtion. Rejoice you are in the land of harsh punishment. It's just too bad the airman did not get publicly caned and have his fu9cking hands amputated.
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