Perspective, banana wise

Isn’t it all a matter of perspective?

As I write these words there are demonstrations going on in Toronto as the G-20 is taking place. Hooligans have been rampaging through downtown, vandalizing and looting. They even torched four police cars.
Meanwhile in Brantford, about 100 plus kilometres away, a 42 year old man who had been drinking earlier this week put a banana up the tailpipe of a police vehicle.  This certainly surprised the officer occupying the vehicle and he exited and arrested the man charging him with mischief. Not surprisingly the gentleman confessed to his deed. 

I doubt that Toronto police will ever bring to justice the thugs who torched their four vehicles. Meanwhile my concern is that the judge hearing the case in Branford may be swayed by those vivid scenes of the four Toronto police vehicles blazing away and that this may affect the sentencing of the Brantford man. I can just see it now:

“I know that the accused does not have a criminal record but then again most recently there have been just too many instances of assaults on police vehicles.  Today the accused might put a banana into the tailpipe of the police car. Tomorrow it might be a zucchini. Sentencing must have both specific and general deterrence in mind.  Sir, did you bring your toothbrush along?... “ 

Good thing that most unlikely there are no videos on YouTube showing that Branford cop car with the banana sticking out of the tailpipe.  The guy would get penitentiary time for sure.

I believe that Toronto police would have been tickled pink if the only damage their four vehicles would have suffered would have been through people placing produce up their tailpipes. Isn’t it really all a matter of perspective?