Quote Originally Posted by Ser Clegane
OK, Vladimir - as you seem to believe that I misinterpreted your original statement, let me ask some questions:

Do you believe the guys should receive punishment for this particular "prank"?

Do you think the punishment they received was too harsh or was it not harsh enough?
1: Hell yes! There is no right to be stupid.

2: I think of it in terms of degree: Intent; there appears to be no intent to do harm, Effect; the animal was not harmed, Enforcement; it's not "illegal" if it's unenforceable, I can't think of a good way to go about that in this situation. A moderate fine and public disgrace should be enough in this situation. Maybe some tangent charges for using the government postage system as well. If the effect had been lethal and the intent was to do harm I would support a suspended prison sentence and probation. In that case if they get so much as a speeding ticket they'd land in jail (I believe). Something funny from the AP too:

TOKYO (AP) — Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one's a 3.5-inch dwarf hamster; the other is a four-foot rat snake. Zookeepers at Tokyo's Mutsugoro Okoku zoo presented the hamster — whose name means "meal" in Japanese — to Aochan as a tasty morsel in October, after the snake refused to eat frozen mice.

But instead of indulging, Aochan decided to make friends with the furry rodent, according to keeper Kazuya Yamamoto. The pair have shared a cage since.

"I've never seen anything like it. Gohan sometimes even climbs onto Aochan to take a nap on his back," Yamamoto said.

Aochan, a 2-year-old male Japanese rat snake, eventually developed an appetite for frozen rodents but has so far shown no signs of gobbling up Gohan — despite her name.

"We named her Gohan as a joke," Yamamoto chuckled. "But I don't think there's any danger. Aochan seems to enjoy Gohan's company very much."

The Tokyo zoo also keeps a range of mostly livestock animals, and promotes "cross-breed interaction," according to Yamamoto.

But Gohan and Aochan's case was "was a complete accident," Yamamoto said.

Can't we all just get along? Oh and if you want some good examples of really wacky law just look at some of the stuff that comes from southern California.