Don't let your alligator mouth out talk your tadpole butt.

I understand that people feel moral outrage over this. And there is likely to be some criminal punishment. But perhaps she's been punished enough.

Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: / But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.

If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell.

Of course it hurts, it’s a spanking. How else would it work?

He's bound to have done something,” Nobby repeated.

In this he was echoing the Patrician's view of crime and punishment. If there was crime, there should be punishment. If the specific criminal should be involved in the punishment process then this was a happy accident, but if not then any criminal would do, and since everyone was undoubtedly guilty of something, the net result was that, in general terms, justice was done.