'Cut off hands' - Mexican presidential candidate's plan to deter thieves

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

APRIL 23, 2018 / 12:02 AM / UPDATED 34 MINUTES AGO
Frank Jack Daniel

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Thieves should have their hands chopped off, a Mexican presidential candidate said in a televised debate on Sunday, provoking disbelief from a moderator and setting off a storm of comments and jokes on Twitter.

Jaime Rodriguez, an independent known as “El Bronco,” who is trailing in opinion polls, made the proposal during a discussion about corruption in the first televised debate among the five presidential candidates ahead of the July 1 election.

“We have to cut off the hands of those who rob. It’s that simple,” said the 59-year-old, adding that he would ask Congress to pass a law backing his idea.

Taken aback, the moderator Denise Maerker twice asked him if he was speaking literally, before checking again that he really meant what he had said.


Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-election-bronco/cut-off-hands-mexican-presidential-candidates-plan-to-deter-thieves-idUSKBN1HU0DZ

[Sherman A1]

1. We have gone through the looking glass

The world is a often bizarre place.

[raging moderate]

2. This is the STUPIDIST "remedy" for theft EVER!

So he imagines that depriving a thief of the ability to do honest work will somehow prevent him/her from stealing?