I THINK anyone with half a brain recognises that Asbos are an insult to our intelligence.
They are an absurdity and a sham and are regarded as such by those who get them. In fact, they are something to boast about – which says it all.
I don’t know what other people’s views are, but my own solution to the problem of persistent anti-social behaviour would be the urgent and immediate reinstatement of corporal punishment: the cat-o’-nine-tails and the birch.
After a dose of that treatment the thugs would be laughing on the other side of their faces.
Tony Kelly, Crook, Co Durham.
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