Waiting 4 Wrath - Episode 185 - The One Where We Got Struck By A Smooth Dolphin

In This Week’s Show, episode 185, we visit intergalactic British Judges to finally get a ruling on curing gonasyphaherpaaids with meat-tea and rage.

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while Erebus (the Greek male personification of darkness) hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying his patience!

Shea’s Life Lesson

This week I learned that running was invented by Thomas Running in 1612 when he tried to walk twice at the same time.

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Did you know that Erebus is the son of Chaos and the brother/husband of Nyx, the female personification of darkness?

But before we get to all that, let’s have a beer!

This Week’s Beer

Contemplation - Brewery Vivant Grand Rapids, MI

From: Steve E

Golden Ale brewed with Michigan Honey

* ABV: 7%

* BA Score: 3.66/5

* Style: Bière de Garde

* Jenn: 6

* Shea: 7

* Aaron: 7

This Week’s Show

Round Table Discussion

We get to start this week off right with a new patron! PishedBoy has answered the call and is this week's best person!

Steve is out today, so the kids will play!

Update to Shea’s shitty train story - apparently the shipment of smelly shite has been sent to … wherever lost socks go I guess, didn’t read that far, but Febreze has swung in to save the day, giving out free cans of air freshener to the locals who surely need it more than most…

Extra Beer!

I Wish You Were Here | Mockery Brewery

Denver

Shea’s Mother-in-law!

* 3.63/5

* American Blonde Ale

* 5.6%

* Shea - 10

* Aaron - 9

* Jenn - 8

Headlines

Teenagers Continue to Suck But Judge Lays Down the Gavel

NPR - http://bit.ly/2IIIv6x

Proving again that a.) we can’t have nice things and b.) teenagers can be the worst, an unnamed then-15 yr old threw fireworks into Oregon’s beautiful Columbia River Gorge last year. The resulting out of control wildfire burned nearly 47,000 acres of scenic landscape. Witnesses watched the boy and a group of friends laugh and throw several in until it finally caught fire, laughed and shouted and were generally awful little shits. One woman told Oregon Public Broadcasting how she him light a smoke bomb and lob it into Eagle Creek Canyon, which was soon consumed by a forest fire that blazed for months, eventually burning an area as large as Washington, D.C.

Happily, the hero of the story, Judge John Olson ran out of both patience and fucks dealing with the teenage turd and his mealy-mouthed lawyer. Despite protests from lawyer Jack Morris of cruel and unusual punishment, Judge Olson has sentenced Firebug Teen to 1,920hrs of community service, 5yrs of probation and a restitution of $36.6 million dollars.

Yep, even though the judge acknowledges that the boy won't be able to pay it in full, this is a glorious statement that this sort of dangerous behavior will not be tolerated. Judge Olson says this amount of "restitution is clearly proportionate to the offense because it does not exceed the financial damages caused by the youth." Per an Oregon juvenile delinquency statute: “restitution that equals the full amount of the victims' injury, loss or damage as determined by the court”.

Olson also pointed to "safety valves" within the statute, "which serve to ensure that the restitution statute as applied in any particular case, even one as extreme as this one, does not 'shock the moral sense of reasonable people.' " Those valves include the establishment of a payment schedule, which the judge authorized the Hood River County Juvenile Department to do. And after 10 years,