Exactly!speedsix wrote:one of the many reasons I don't Peep or do anything else that might warrant me being covered with that stuff...
A newspaper columnist (hard to type that without making "communist" out of it) for the Albany New York Times Union, many years ago, by the name of Barney Fowler, was very conservative in his views, also somewhat of a rarity amongst newspaper people anymore, and used to do regular pieces on HIS plan for: if not reducing crime, at least reducing the impact and expense.
Barney (I got to call him by his first name because he was my father in law's cousin) championed criminals being required to register their jobs, just like everyone else, and having to carry all of the same insurances, and pay into SSI, and so on, just like any other small business.
AND, it was his idea that each and every criminal should be made to sign a form that they were aware of the occupational hazards, including injury and possibly death, and that anyone who injured or killed them would not be held responsible because it was, after all, the criminal's chosen profession that resulted in the injury.
I can't really imagine such a law making it through most any legislature, but one can dream.