Justice, Peruvian style

Here's a video of what happened yesterday in the Peruvian town of Huancayo.

Two thieves were caught red-handed while trying to steal jackets from a stall in Huancayo's Central Market. They (siblings Javier and Rosario Rojas) then went through the following:

• stripped to their underwear

• hands tied behind their backs

• a paper with "I'm a Thief" taped to their chests

• paraded around the central market so that everybody could see their faces

• jeered and shouted at

• at the end of the parade, buckets of cold water poured over them

• finally the two were handed in to the local police station

Note that the two were not physically injured throughout their ordeal. I'll leave it to you to decide whether all the above was a good or bad thing but I will say that the Inca laws of Ama Sua, Ama Quella, Ama Llulla (look 'em up for yourselves if you care enough) are alive and well and living in the Central Highland region of Peru.

It's never too late

An old crook

Peru provides today's WTF moment. Here's the link to the El Comercio story (has a video of the lady in question), and here comes the Ottotrans™:

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A 90 year old woman who looks like a sweet grandmother was captured in Lima when she took part in a house robbery, according to police reports today.

Fanny Marulanda went to a house that was for sale along with two other women in the Lima district of Los Olivos. The old woman's job was to distract the host with a supposed deal negotiation while the other two stole valuable objects.

On being discovered the two younger women escaped in a taxi that was waiting for them, but Marulanda couldn't get to the taxi in time and tried to escape on foot. Her age got the better of her and she was apprehended two blocks away.

At the police station Marulanda gave a false name to officers and told them that the other two women had conned her by saying they were only going for a visit. However, when Marulanda's true identity was confirmed so was her previous criminal record as a thief.

The woman was freed by police who took her age into consideration.