The times they are a changin’. Society used to put minor criminals in stocks to humiliate them; now we put them on YouTube.
After Rickey Sharratt, 29, of Camas, Washington, was convicted for illegal off-roading on state forest land, he was fined $1,200 and forced to issue a video-taped apology that was posted on YouTube (above) by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources.
Sharratt seems contrite in the video, but reportedly later told a local newspaper that the video was “a bunch of baloney” to avoid community service and that the jurors at his trial were “all a bunch of tree-hugging hippies.”
A medical fact: A man wearing a Lynyrd Skynyrd shirt is constitutionally incapable of issuing a genuine apology.
Via: Outdoor Pressroom
