Community service is pointless

[thinfourth2]

A couple of folk at my work are currently doing community service and i must say from there stories it is a bit of a waste of time.

The first is doing community service for taking a huge knife to the chip shop. His community service appears to consist of driving around in a transit mini bus with a load of scum and buying beer and thats it.

The second is doing his community service for assault. His community service is working at a place for young offenders. Exactly whose good idea it was to get offenders to work at young offenders place must be a genius


So can we not just please get rid of community service as it just seems to be a waste of time and money.

[thinfourth2]

elster said:

There are lots of drainage ditches that could be cleaned out, lots of pot holes to be filled in, lots of grass and hedges to be cut, lots of grafitti to be cleaned and so on and so forth.

Nice idea BUT a local cathedral used to get help from the community service folk and they just caused absolute mayhem. Stealing stuff, wrecking stuff and generally be a pain in the ass.

Community service just doesn't work