TOO FAT FOR JAIL

[Jacaylbaro]

 

 

ROME (Reuters) - A court in Sicily has ruled that an accused Mafioso can be put under house arrest because he is too fat for any Italian jail.

 

Salvatore Ferranti, who weighs 210 kg (462 pounds), was allowed to go home after spending six months in four Italian prisons, his lawyer told Reuters, confirming a local newspaper report.

 

Guards at the first two prisons said they constantly needed to help Ferranti, 36, get dressed and undressed, move about and go to the bathroom.

 

Guards at other prisons said there was no bed big enough for him, that he could not get through the bathroom door, and that they would be at a loss if he had to be taken to a hospital in an emergency.

 

Ferranti was accused of being a member of the Mafia clan once headed by Salvatore Lo Piccolo, the "boss of bosses" arrested last November.

 

Lawyer Raffaele Bonsignore filed a motion with a court in Palermo to release him under house arrest because he suffered from "grave obesity", calling it "a pathology incompatible with prison".

[Ibtisam]

Subxan, suprised the chair has not given under his weigh :confused:

 

P.s. Easy way to get out of prison, but hard life, he made it a prison.

[MZanzi]

MR jc trobo qashin aruuris adiga

[Faynuus]

Sawirka kursigaaba kasii daran.

[Geel_jire]

what crime can a guy this big commit...... i cannot picture this guy doing the stuff typically attributed to the mafia.......doesn't seem particularly intimidating enough to do his job well

[peasant]

rationing his food can be jail too if they are looking for ways to punish him,,

[MAXIMUS POWERS]

fat people are fat because they have no control!

[chubacka]

they obviously were not thinking in the long term, if he stayed in prison he would have definately lost some weight wouldn't he?

[Naxar Nugaaleed]

Originally posted by marcassmith:

fat people are fat because they have no control!

and simple minded people are simple minded because they are simple minded.

[Geel_jire]

looooool@peasant

[Naxar Nugaaleed]

" World - Europe

Italian women warn court ruling makes jeans 'alibi' for rape

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Benito Mussolini's granddaughter Alessandra Mussolini, center, and other members of Italy's Parliament protest Wednesday's ruling

February 11, 1999

Web posted at: 6:15 p.m. EST (2315 GMT)

 

ROME (CNN) -- Female legislators wore jeans to Italy's Parliament on Thursday to protest an appeals court's throwing out a rape conviction on the grounds it was "impossible" to rape a woman wearing jeans.

 

"This ruling is shameful. It offends the dignity of women," said Alessandra Mussolini, deputy of the rightist National Alliance, who led the protest.

 

On Wednesday, Italy's male-dominated appeals court overturned the conviction of 45-year-old driving instructor Carmine Cristiano, who had been sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for raping an 18-year-old student.

 

The appeals court agreed with Cristiano's claim that the woman had consented to sex, because she was wearing jeans at the time.

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"It is common knowledge ... that jeans cannot even be partly removed without the effective help of the person wearing them ... and it is impossible if the victim is struggling with all her might," the court said.

 

The court also questioned why the victim, identified only as Rosa, waited several hours to tell her parents she'd been attacked.

 

Lawmakers call for 'skirt strike'

 

Mussolini and several other female members of Parliament came to work Thursday clad in blue jeans and holding placards reading, "Jeans: An alibi for rape."

 

They called on women across Italy to join a "skirt strike" and wear jeans until the court changed its decision.

 

"We thank the court for having enriched women's wardrobes with a new garment. To the business suit and the little black dress, we can now add the anti-rape outfit -- a comfortable and resistant pair of jeans," said union official Stefania Sidoli.

 

Opponents of the ruling say it may set a dangerous precedent.

 

"If we go on like this, every woman who doesn't wear a chastity belt will have the 'right' to be raped," said Sonia Viale of Parliament's equal opportunities commission.

 

A homemakers federation ridiculed the court by offering a prize to any designer who comes up with "easy-off jeans" and planned a march in jeans to the Justice Ministry.

 

The ruling also sparked a storm of protest from other judges, lawyers and politicians.

 

"The court's sentence contrasts with the principles of civil justice and is a worrying signal. It is a backward-looking ruling that strikes at ... the civil conscience of women and of the whole country," said Walter Veltroni, head of the Democrats of the Left party, the largest in Italy's center-left government.

 

A law student buying jeans in downtown Rome was outraged.

 

"Unfortunately, we're always trying to blame women for rape. So this shows there is still a lot of sexism around," she said.

 

Italy's appeals court, or Court of Cassation, is made up of 410 men and 10 women. In 1997, the court tossed out a sexual harassment case brought by a secretary against her boss. The court ruled the man was in love and was just being gallant when he kissed her. The woman was fired after she rebuffed his advances.

 

Rome Bureau Chief Gayle Young, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this"

[Buuxo]

^loool , What an A.s.s! .Some judges are complete ******,things they come up with :mad:

[Hunguri]

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[Jacaylbaro]

looooooooool@hunguri ,,,, waaar wuu soo jeedaaye ma sii jeedo ,,, belo ,,