Thread: WTH is wrong with some people??? Shooting at CT Elementary School
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Old 12-21-2012, 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by MS Fowler View Post
Actually not bad. And it has strong historical precedence. The Code of Hammurabi is recognized as the first Building Code. It specified that if you built a house for someone, and it fell, injuring or killing someone, you got the same as your punishment....killed the Owner--you die; killed his first-born son--your first-born son dies and so on. ( It might have even covered wives and slaves--but I don't know)
Its about the same now....anything goes wrong though instead of killing you they just sue your shorts off!
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