Street Justice

by Jason Bruce

Overview

In a world where those at the top seem to constantly get away with murder, often quite literally, where white collar crime is punished with a mere slap on the wrist or more often than not just swept under the rug, wouldn't it be nice to see at least some form of punishment meted out? Street Justice poses one of those big what if questions that lurk in the back of our minds. What would we like to see happen to that murderer when he's caught? What if those muggers chose the wrong person to steal from and got a severe beating for their troubles? Now imagine if one day the government decided to do something about it, a token gesture at least, and offer the choice between thirty years behind bars for playing a role in crashing the stock market, or thirty days seeing how the other half, in this case, the homeless. What with overcrowding in prisons as it is, as well as public resentment at having to pay their taxes for people like that to serve a shortened sentence in an open prison watching TV, getting three meals a day when ordinary folk rely on food banks, wouldn't it make more sense to give them a much shorter, but much harsher sentence sleeping out in the cold, eating out of rubbish bins, etc? Based on trust, in this scenario there would be no need for walls, barbed wire, armed guards, etc, only an independent film maker and his crew, moderate government funding and a team of three genuinely homeless men with drug and alcohol issues to run the show. What could possibly go wrong? Heaven forbid it ever did and word were to get out, the whole thing might just be swept under the rug, all footage of the event seized, never to see the light of day ever again. But what if, just if, a transcript of the recorded material still existed? Now imagine those shameless champagne guzzling, tax avoiding, let them eat cake boys getting the only real justice they deserve. Street Justice!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783019878
Publisher:	eBookPartnership.com
Publication date:	08/08/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Jason Bruce was either assembled in a factory, as oft he tells his wife, or born in Burton Upon Trent (England) during the waning moon sign of Leo in 1969. The youngest of eight, his childhood was pretty much the norm, parents divorced, moving house every few years, getting put in a suitcase by an older brother, then pushed down the stairs, or the special treat of being locked in the boot of the car. Holidays to the south of France were many, which was where, at around the age of ten, he developed a taste for beer with the help of a wonderful invention named the vending machine. The years that followed were a joy, with new schools to settle into, new school bullies to get acquainted with , and some very nice chances to see what the inside of a police station was like. At fifteen and a half he refused to enter yet another school, and ended up at technical college studying metallurgy, and make things out of it. This led to a further course of study in welding, where as it would turn out, the same satellite antenas he produced, which were exported to Iraq, were blown up by the Royal Air Force, who became his new employers when he was nineteen. The RAF were good to him for six years, teaching him how to fix aeroplanes, drink beer like it was going out of fashion, and the best thing of all, the art of sarcasm, and how to be the brunt of a joke. The RAF was also where he discovered Karate, the reason he gave everything up, and moved to Japan where he has lived since 1995, speaking broken Japanese with his lovely wife, and two children, in between writing whatever novel, screenplay, or T.V series that pops into his addled brain. Finally, he bases his outlook on life on a line from Shakespeare's Twelth Night, by the character Malvolio, which goes, 'Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.'