It let me play Solitaire at a young age. I couldn't make C:\> do that without dosshell coming first, and moving the little block to it.

You would waste bacon grease on a goddam car? Beef fat can do the trick, the bacon grease must be saved to make the unmentionable meat parts semi-palatable!

And they often disappear, only to be found once the cells have ruptured and caked the terminals.

Which means, for every Chuck Norris, there can be an infinite number of Chuck Norrises.

And we're worried about Skynet...

Poison is mostly ineffective, but I much like the explosives. Nitroglycerin would seem to be particularly promising.

I've got a fine Chianti...

Well, I can go Moo, Oink, Neigh...so I must be an aminal.

Their nails are sharp, and can quickly gain a leverage advantage on you. Once you're down on the ground, you're pretty helpless unless there's only one or two.

So, you're saying, there's always going to be room for it?

You would have to mandate some amount of play per day, or else this would have the same effect as just taking all the games. Or so I've heard.

That lie would be seen through very easily. Your bail condition would be to eat quite a few florets nightly, else land in jail.

It's more the manner in which the bail was presented; the manner in which the judge decided what the bail should be tends to a presumption of guilt (the judge is ordering surrender of an item valued by the child in lieu of being put in jail); it's a little too 'eye-for-an-eye' for the bail hearing portion of the case. Monetary bail, to a degree, is different; money (while valuable) isn't necessarily an 'item', despite its physical form, and that standard for bail is consistent for any manner of criminal dispute (theft, assault, murder, extortion, and so on).

Some creative maneuvering, and a series of tube slides is actually not a bad hiding spot. You just have to go barefoot (socks slide too much, and shoes make too much noise).

For a minor, it's not the child's financial assets that become an issue; it's his parents/guardians' assets.

That said, this isn't a forcible seizure, either; the 'bail' could go 'unpaid' (the system isn't turned over) and the kid goes to the lockup...however undesirable, there is an element of choice there for him/his parents or guardians/counsel to make.

No, no, no. It'd go like this:

Judge: "What's something of value to you?"
Defendant: "Yo' mama"
Judge: *facepalm* Bail is a grand, take him to lockup..."