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thebeast
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High School - 12th Grade

What is the appropriate penalty for failing to honor your superiors?

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Posted by thebeast on Friday May 4, 2007 at 8:47 AM and tagged with in the penal colony.

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  1. angelacress Teacher
    High School - 10th Grade

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    The whole apparatus is pretty grisly. The machine is designed to hold down a prisoner while needles tattoo a particular sentence, or punishment, into the skin of the condemned. I believe that for some offenses the machine will etch the words on the prisoner's body, literally until the prisoner is dead. However, in the case of the prisoner who fell asleep on duty and shouted at his captain, he "will have written on his body: HONOR THY SUPERIORS!"

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    Posted by angelacress on Friday May 4, 2007 at 1:57 PM