The choice between walking and taking a taxi isn't always an either-or decision, as one fare-dodging woman found out.
After a 30-mile cab ride, Victoria Bascom attempted to leave a cab without paying.
Now, in one of the more cruel and unusual punishments around, a judge ordered her to cover the distance on foot if she wanted to avoid jail time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LykL14uXvc
This is not the first creative sentence handed out by eccentric American judge Michael A Cicconetti.
In a separate case, he ordered a criminal who had used pepper spray on her victim to be pepper sprayed herself as punishment (though there was a twist).
Judge Cicconetti's reasoning? "I think everybody would like to have an eye for an eye".
H/T Toronto Sun
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