Well, call be a woolly-minded wet liberal, but when I see the level of perfectly justified rage that posters to this thread show: it makes me glad we have devised, over thousands of years, a slow moving cautious legal system with a lot of built in safeguards. It may have a lot wrong with it, but at least it tries to stop us relying on private vengeance in the heat of the moment. Stringing people up from the nearest lamp-post, or cutting their balls off, may make you feel better, but it won't solve the problem. And you're more than likely to get the wrong bloke because you'll be blind with anger.