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Title: CalTech student gets 8 years for burning SUVs
Post by: Coredweller on April 19, 2005, 10:29:51 AM

It was a stupid thing to do, and I don\'t believe his excuses, but still... 8 YEARS???? for burning SUVs?  I would have given him a warning.  :)

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cottrell19apr19,1,2460589.story?coll=la-headlines-california

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Student Gets 8 Years for SUV Arsons

Man is ordered to pay $3.5 million restitution. Federal judge rejects plea for leniency, saying it would show favoritism based on intelligence.

By David Rosenzweig, Times Staff Writer

A Caltech graduate student convicted of taking part in a string of arson attacks on SUVs was sentenced to eight years and four months in federal prison Monday and ordered to pay $3.5 million restitution.

Appealing for leniency, 24-year-old William Cottrell told U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner that he wanted nothing more than a chance to return to a promising career in physics. Testimonials from professors described him as incredibly brilliant.
 
"There\'s no way I\'d ever be involved in anything like this again," Cottrell said as he stood before the judge, handcuffed and clad in an orange prison jumpsuit. "I won\'t ever even jaywalk again."

But Klausner said he was disinclined to grant any favors because of the defendant\'s intellectual prowess. To do so, he said, would send a wrong message that "we\'re going to punish some people harder because they\'re stupid."

Cottrell\'s defense lawyers had been hoping for a five-year sentence after his conviction in November on seven counts of arson and one count of conspiracy. Klausner tacked on the additional time, saying that he engaged in domestic terrorism by trying to intimidate potential SUV buyers.

The judge also said "we\'re very, very lucky" that the arson attacks did not result in any deaths.

Title: CalTech student gets 8 years for burning SUVs
Post by: GigaShadow on April 19, 2005, 10:31:30 AM

Is this guy connected to ELF?

Title: CalTech student gets 8 years for burning SUVs
Post by: Ashford on April 19, 2005, 10:31:35 AM

Good...

ALF, ELF, and PETArds all deserve it...

(The extreme ones, of course...)

Title: CalTech student gets 8 years for burning SUVs
Post by: GigaShadow on April 19, 2005, 10:37:43 AM

Now the naked Peta chicks aren\'t that bad...

Title: CalTech student gets 8 years for burning SUVs
Post by: Lord Nicon on April 19, 2005, 11:26:36 AM

SUV\'s suck

most of them anyway :p

Title: CalTech student gets 8 years for burning SUVs
Post by: JBean on April 19, 2005, 12:13:21 PM

I read this too.  Yeah, apparently the guy almost had his doctorate in physics and planned on "only" spray-painting SUVs.  And he was apparently associated with ELF.

Guy is still an ass and deserves what he gets.  You may disagree with others, but that give you no right to go out and destroy their property.

Damn terrorists.

Title: CalTech student gets 8 years for burning SUVs
Post by: Coredweller on April 19, 2005, 12:18:50 PM

I guess he\'s going to be teaching thermal dynamics to the brothers in lockdown.  In between the rapings of course....  :)

Title: CalTech student gets 8 years for burning SUVs
Post by: GigaShadow on April 19, 2005, 12:20:04 PM

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Originally posted by Coredweller
I guess he\'s going to be teaching thermal dynamics to the brothers in lockdown.  In between the rapings of course....  :)

:laughing:

Title: CalTech student gets 8 years for burning SUVs
Post by: Black Samurai on April 19, 2005, 03:38:14 PM

Ahahaha....fuck him

/I am now off to put $45 worth of gas into my SUV.

Title: CalTech student gets 8 years for burning SUVs
Post by: JBean on April 19, 2005, 03:51:37 PM

speaking of gassing up your vehicle

anybody else see their price per gallon drop nearly 10 cents the past week or so?

It\'s now $1.99 a gallon here for the cheap stuff

:)

Title: CalTech student gets 8 years for burning SUVs
Post by: mjps21983 on April 23, 2005, 05:36:53 AM

1.96 here, suckas

Title: CalTech student gets 8 years for burning SUVs
Post by: Lord Nicon on April 23, 2005, 07:39:15 AM

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Originally posted by mjps21983
1.96 here, suckas

I wish my gas was that low.

Title: CalTech student gets 8 years for burning SUVs
Post by: Deadly Hamster on April 23, 2005, 08:14:35 AM

There is also a man who got 20 years for the same crime who is now in prison.

Title: CalTech student gets 8 years for burning SUVs
Post by: clips on April 23, 2005, 08:31:21 AM

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Originally posted by Lord Nicon
I wish my gas was that low.

that\'s because he lives in texas...;)  that damn bush!

Title: CalTech student gets 8 years for burning SUVs
Post by: Lord Nicon on April 23, 2005, 12:10:46 PM

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Originally posted by clips
that\'s because he lives in texas...;)  that damn bush!

I was thinking the same thing