Now That Takes the Cake

Now That Takes the Cake

In this category I have lampooned a variety of actions of others. But this is my first set of prosecutors to roast. This is one of those cases where one can conclude the prosecutors are overreacting to a minor infraction.

This Are You Thinking? award will be going to the prosecutors from this story found here:

“MCARTHUR, Ohio - A judge in southern Ohio must decide whether to send a man to prison for sharing a Little Debbie snack cake. The case involves 21-year-old Timothy Caudill, who last year was held in a residential community corrections program in Nelsonville for breaking into a bar.

While there, prosecutors said he bought the oatmeal creme pie from a vending machine and shared it with a fellow inmate who was on restriction and wasn't allowed access to snacks.

Prosecutors in Vinton County have asked Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey Simmons to revoke Caudill's probation and put him in prison for nine months.

Caudill's attorney Claire Ball said that's outrageous. Ball says keeping Caudill out of a state prison would leave cell space for a more serious offender.”

Okay, Timothy Caudill should have followed the rules better. Rules are rules especially when you are incarcerated but the punishment should equal the crime. I am one that believes in the death penalty. Life for a life is the rule of thumb on that. But 9 months in jail for sharing half of a Little Debbie oatmeal crème cake sounds very excessive to me.

From a basic standpoint, does half an oatmeal crème pie count as a snack? It may be just a tad bit more filling than a Hostess Twinkie with about the same amount of nutritional value. There isn’t much to either.

If the prosecutor really wants an appropriate punishment for this massive crème pie crime, have Mr. Caudill do community service in a soup kitchen handing out food that actually does have nutritional value.

If the prosecutor does get this guy to sit in jail for 9 months because of half a crème pie, what are the punishments for speeding, graffiti, or murder? They make Sharia Law look tame.