Blue Collar Scientist

…because the judge says so.

Superior Court Judge Beverly Cutler said the verdict should provide a lesson. “We should get young people to stay home after midnight,” she said. She later amended that to say adults should be home by midnight as well.

Sorry, Miss Astronomer, you aren’t allowed to go to work anymore. Sorry, cardiac patient, but there are no doctors or nurses at the hospital after midnight, you will just have to wait….

I can only assume that this kind of civilization-disrupting advice springs from the naive understanding that no crimes are, or would be, committed during the daytime.

And when does “after midnight” end, anyway? I know people that go to work at six AM - that’s only six hours after midnight. Are they OK? Or do you have to wait until the number of hours after midnight is less than the number before? That would mean we all get to sleep in until noon….