Judge Orders Porn Thief To Go Blind

Judge Orders Porn Thief To Go Blind : "A teenager was told to sit blindfolded outside a porn shop he stole from by an American judge who has found fame for his creative sentences.

Judge Mike Cicconetti also ordered the 18-year-old to carry a sign saying 'see no evil'.

The ruling is among a series of wacky punishments which are an alternative to prison and designed the fit to crime....

During recent heavy blizzards, he ordered defendants - who can choose jail or the alternative justice - to clear snow.

He told The Times: "What could be better than shovelling snow for senior citizens?

"Do we serve the community better like that or by putting someone in jail at a cost of $70 (£45) a day?"

He added: "People will say the punishments are cruel and unusual, but what is cruel and unusual punishment? Is it a little bit of embarrassment and humiliation?"

One man caught with a loaded gun was sent to a morgue to see dead bodies while a woman who abandoned 35 kittens in a forest was told to spend a night in the woods.

A defendant who called a police officer a pig spent two hours inside a pen with a pig, complete with a sign saying: 'This is not a police officer.'

Meanwhile, two teenagers who scrawled 666 on a nativity figure of Jesus also got a taste of the judge's justice.

They had to lead a donkey through the streets, with a sign saying: 'Sorry for the jackass offence.'"