Your logical fallacy is the false dichotomy. There's lots of room in between murder and waving goodbye. Rehabilitation, it's not just a word in other nations in the developed world.

What kind of asshole would assume that in the age of fifty dollar tablets, there's not a security camera on a thousand-plus-dollar payphone?

But then you have to be sneaky when approaching the phone. Better to be disguised before you ever approach it.

I'm asthmatic and allergic to dogs, you insensitive clod! And furthermore, my dad had a dog when I was a kid.

I personally blame my asthma on my mother smoking until she found out she was pregnant, and my father smoking until shortly before he died, including all throughout the pregnancy, in the car, in the car after I was born, etc etc. There's no family history of it on either side. But of course, there's no way to know. It's convenient, though, because one parent is dead and I don't talk to the other one.

And no, I am not passing on these genes. They're just not that fantastic. Good enough for my purposes, but they could be better even there. If I weren't asthmatic, I likely also wouldn't ever have become overweight.

I agree with your conclusions, but not your premise. Any campus administrator could probably have tracked this guy down.

Walk into some woods. Change clothes/reverse, put on or take off layers. Pop on a big hat. Walk out of the woods, make the call.

Or here's a snazzy idea for you. You know they'll call the cops on a bomb threat. Call them yourself. Walk to the edges of signal and call 911 on a used phone you got at a flea market or yard sale, make your bomb threat with them. Don't even need a contract to make an emergency call.

Note that I think anyone who actually does this does need serious help, and I would never do it, because lives can be lost while emergency services are dicking around with bullshit. Just saying, I've never been to HAH-VAHD and yet I can come up with trivial ways around all of this crap.

Citation needed.

Because he is, however stupid, a human being.

Grow some empathy. He clearly needs a course in it himself, and to be kept away from situations where he might harm other people, but what will happen to him now will not benefit society.

Any agreement not in writing ain't worth the paper it's printed on.

But the cops will only make a deal like that if they're trying to get other information out of you...

Sadly, he'll now be looking at a whole lot of unplanned midnight exams.

The wonderful thing about shows like CSI is that it convinces criminals to implement absurd technical defences when their crimes will almost certainly be dealt with by old-fashioned police work.

The kind of intellect that uses a bomb threat to get out of an exam doesn't strike me as the kind that pleads the fifth to get out of a stretch in pokey.

Hemp, or Cannabis, has many uses: ethanol or biodisel production (and can be further refined into a gasoline replacement), clothing, paper pulp, rope, hemcrete, insulation, it provides a hypoallergenic (making it better than soy!) vegan protein source, it can treat a host of health and mental issues (morning sickness, PMS, nausea, vomiting, migraines, chronic pain, epilepsy, glaucoma, crohn's disease, colitis, diabetes, anxiety, adhd, neuropathy, insomnia, depression, Multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's, can balance appetite, and is NON-ADDICTIVE, shows promise of being able to cure certain cancers and in combination with western medicine improves effectiveness of Hep C treatment), lubricants for machinery, heating fuel, fertilizer, cattle feed. Also, overdosing is nearly impossible - you would have to ingest many pounds of it to O.D., far more than anyone can fit into their stomach, or if you want to smoke it, you'd die of asphyxiation long before you O.D.

It is also not a gateway drug: there is a greater correlation between either nicotine or alcohol use and hard drugs than there is with cannabis.

Disclaimer: I have never so much as tried pot - I cannot even though it's legal in my state because of my career. I'd like try it myself to treat migraines, but I can't. :-(

Also, if it were legal in my mom's state I'd love to buy some make a tincture for my her to help her with her pain so she can cut down her oxy use (she is on opiates because she is in severe chronic pain and is terminal).

High-sulfur diesel is great for all engines, even modern ones. But it's not good for catalysts, and that's why it's gone now. It's more expensive to add other lubricity agents, but that's what they've done. Biodiesel has more lubricity, but gels in cold weather. Then there's green diesel, which needs lubricity agents again. You could cut it 10% with biodiesel, though, and it would be a pretty much ideal carbon-neutral fuel (if the cracking energy came from someplace carbon-neutral.)

Sadly, they changed the oil, too. Now it's hard to find oil for the old engines. The old oil ruins catalysts. The new oil sucks. My engines are old, there's no catalyst on my truck or my car. They want Delo 400, but all I can find is Delo 400LE. I could get Rotella T Synthetic for the same price, but putting synthetic in an old engine is a recipe for environmental harm.

You would need regular inspections to make sure people didn't blow up their neighborhood. It's a lot more leak-prone than your range.

Yes, it's entirely true.

...and be one of three people. And actually, not all of them will get jobs either, because some of those job requirements are written to be unfillable, so that a foreign worker can be hired instead.

When I pull up to an intersection on a 40+ mph street I start a mental countdown from 4 and estimate how far I'll travel in 3 seconds and if I'll end up past the white line I just keep going, otherwise I come to a stop. If I run the red it is because the yellow is shorter than legally required.