You know this common spanking fantasy, where an offender – rather than serve a small-time sentence, pay for a traffic ticket etc – submits to a spanking instead? (“Please, officer, couldn’t you punish me in some other way? Like, spank me, maybe?”)

Well, the police chief in Warren, OH decided to run a whole “diversion program” for young offenders, in which “clients were spanked for infractions”. Yesterday they were still figuring out his criminal sentence.

I wonder if it’ll be a judicial paddling?