Miscellaneous

It's not so bad if you look at it in terms of centuries...

...Because then, James Kevin Pope's prison sentence is only about 40.

Yup -- Pope was just hit with a sentence of 4,060 years. If he can find the key to immortality, he'll first be eligible for parole in 3209.

But before you go feeling bad for Pope, this hefty sentence comes as a result of forty sex assault convictions stemming from Pope's sexual abuse of three teenage girls over a two year span. So the scum bag got what he deserved. But that doesn't change the humor in his sentence.

I mean, think of it this way. If, back in 807, Emperor Charlemagne had been hit with a similar sentence, he would only just be coming up for parole this year. But if you go back four millenia, it was the beginning of the Xia Dynasty in China (the first real government system there), and it was smack in the middle of the Tenth Dynasty in Egypt. I mean, we're practically talking cradle of civilization type shit here. Four. Thousand. Years.

See ya' on the other side, Pope!

Full post as published by Quiz Law on July 08, 2008 (boomark / email).