JUDGE ORDERS WOMAN WHO STIFFED CABBIE TO WALK 30 MILES

Painesville, Ohio, Judge Michael Cicconetti is known for his unusual punishments. Last week, 19-year-old Victoria Bascom was found guilty of theft for not paying her cab fare of $100. Judge Ciconnetti sentenced her to walk 30 miles, the same distance she stiffed the cabbie for. Bascom wasn’t happy. She thought she’d just have to pay a fine. Bascom was required to walk the 30 miles this past weekend. After seeing that Bascom was likely not going to finish walking the required 30 miles in less than 48 hours because she walked in an grassy, muddy area of the grounds rather than the asphalt around it, Cicconetti reduced the sentence to 20 miles. Additionally, Bascom will be on probation for the next four months, and she has to pay $100 restitution to the driver she stiffed.
* Lindsay Lohan could have gotten it reduced to 100 yards on a moped.
* As sentences go, it’s got that Middle Ages vibe to it, doesn’t it?
* Has the judge sentenced anyone to burn at the stake yet?
* Maybe go colonial with it with the stock or pillory method.
* This judge is serious. He sentenced one man who threatened his girlfriend to spend three weeks watching “The View.”
* A judge with unusual punishments? Oh, great. That hardly sounds twisted at all.