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Student Gets Eight Years for Eco-Vandalism

Apr 19, 2005 10:36AM PDT

LOS ANGELES ? A Caltech graduate student convicted of helping to firebomb scores of sport utility vehicles was sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison and ordered to pay $3.5 million in restitution.

wonder when he cant pay back will he go back to jail?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,153886,00.html

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Good! It's about time these terrorists start answering for
Apr 19, 2005 2:17PM PDT

their crimes.

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I thought they always have, when they were caught.
Apr 19, 2005 7:59PM PDT

I hope he does day for day and pays back every cent.

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Dont they get a little allowance in jail?
Apr 20, 2005 5:18AM PDT

If so, I wonder if thats being withheld in his case...

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(NT) (NT) But he'll "never do it again"
Apr 20, 2005 6:20PM PDT
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Theres probably a parent somewhere swearing up and down...
Apr 20, 2005 6:19PM PDT

'not my boy, he's a good boy'

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i tend to agree and more parents will say same
Apr 20, 2005 9:22PM PDT

in the near future

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If they would have cane'd him when
Apr 20, 2005 9:51PM PDT

he just started out being a punk and forcing the whole world to conform to his way of thinking, like that auto paint scratcher/painter got, he would have learned by now. You remember how the public applauded that?

Barney Fife said it best, "Nip it, Nip it, Nip it." Happy

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Sounds kinda lenient for a "hate crime"
Apr 20, 2005 10:16PM PDT
Devil