[Spridgets] "Perpetrators"? No, criminals!

[Jim Johnson]

Hmmmm....   If I recall correctly, there was a certain red BE parked in
front of Buster's garage door - the closest one of all to the assembly
area.  Perhaps we should examine the headlight rings on THAT car...   I will
not say who it belonged to but the owner's initials are "Hal Faulkner"...
;-)

Hal - according to your definition - a "perpetrator" would, per force, be a
"criminal" as Buster noted so why use the term "perpetrator"?  It looks to
me more like a term used by people who don't want to offend anyone with the
brutal truth.  It is so terribly P.C....

Besides....   Anyone who steals stuff from one of our cars is a "excrement
venting orifice"...

Cheers!!
Jim

On Dec 4, 2007 6:36 PM, Hal Faulkner <hal at katemuir.com> wrote:

> Buster said, "the favored term is "suspects"."
>
> I have even heard a policeman on TV describing a criminal act for which no
> one had yet been arrested say that  the "alleged suspects" escaped.
> However, there is a distinction between "suspect and perpetrator: the
> "suspect" is the person who you think committed a crime, the perpetrator
> is
> the person who actually committed the crime, identified or not.  If you
> "suspect" that, say, a Frank C. obtained a chrome headlight ring in an
> extra-legal manner, he would be a "suspect."  The person who actually took
> the chrome headlight ring (whether Frank or someone else) would, of
> course,
> be the perpetrator.  Please note that this is a fictitious scenario used
> only to illustrate a point of grammar and that any similarities to persons
> or events that may have actually taken place is entirely coincidental.
> _______________________________________________
> bmwwxman at gmail.com
>
> Edit your replies
>
> http://www.team.net/archive
>
> http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spridgets
>



-- 
Cheers!!
Jim - 68 "Spridget" in Dodge City
Don't miss "50 Years of Spridgets" at Lake of the Ozarks, June 26-29, 2008!!

For info and registration... <http://www.Sprite-MidgetClub.org>