Reply To: Boys sentenced for trashing Stamford model railway show

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Having known people who’ve had their collections stolen and the like, the “law” as a whole doesn’t appreciate the amount of time and effort people put into these kinds of things.
Getting hounded on the bus can get you thousands of dollars in emotional damages, but losing something you spent thousands of hours of blood, sweat and tears on can net you a couple hundred for “damaged toys”.

It’s heart-breaking, honestly. The club does seem to have responded admirably, but I do think the sentence is a joke. The fine is so small compared to the value of what was destroyed that it almost seems pointless. I feel like the kids should have to spend every weekend and summer day for at least a year volunteering at the charity club being set up as a result.
Even if they’re bad kids and aren’t going to learn anything from it, at least that will go a longer way towards fixing the damage they caused than charging their parents a thousand bucks.