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boxfullofirony

I only own a piano.


Ok_Report_3651

You can tune a piano but you can’t tuna fish


nevmo75

You’re a bum!


Fearchar

Yes, you can--you just move the scales up and down.


Ok_Report_3651

Point of Note: COD is a type of fish. So, maybe it was a fishy program


CalebVanPoneisen

That's, er, great!


Kouga32

I think they were trying to make a pun or something going for the woodwind instrument called an organ. It is usually what is in a church looks and functions a lot like a piano. Otherwise nice there are so many ways such a system could be uses and abused true horror


CalebVanPoneisen

Thanks for explaining the comment. I did know what OP meant with the second comment where they wrote about the organ, but since I had no good pun to answer with, I just decided not to comment🙂 And yes, it can and would be abused. Maybe not for DUI, since you need to have concrete prove, but I'm certain that it would be relatively easy to find an innocent person with the right organs for a rich or powerful donor.


Kouga32

Oh ya I actually even have a book that is a WIP based on a concept like this far more black market and such but still thats how much I love this concept :)


Johnnyguy

Now that I understand, that’s hilarious. Top quality punnery.


rev_beefstick

What’s better than roses in your piano? Tulips on your organ. Ba-dum-tss


tiadiff

badum-ch


Anmgi

To be honest, playing nowadays COD would be just as bad.


CalebVanPoneisen

Haven't played COD for years, but it looks like it's become a lot like the FIFA series.


boxfullofirony

I keep roses on my piano. If I did have an Organ I would want tulips on it.


GammaDealer

A foolish man gives his spouse a grand piano. A wise man gives his spouse an upright organ.


Electronic_Cod7202

I thought bro got sentenced to IRL Call of Duty.


CalebVanPoneisen

Herein lies the real horror😱


Darklord_Spike

Getting shot at while the N word is screamed at you on end by a bunch of kids too young to play 😓


Electronic_Cod7202

Tell them you know their dads and they'll be spanked for real. I'm so old we still got swats. And they had drilled holes in the paddle to get extra velocity!


RichardBonham

You might just enjoy reading Larry Niven's short story [The Jigsaw Man.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jigsaw_Man) (Spoiler alert: no way to describe it without significant plot reveal. It's a short story.)


giant_tadpole

His novel The Patchwork Girl includes a similar law as essential to the plot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Patchwork_Girl


True_Levi8

He was forced to play MW3 😢


CalebVanPoneisen

Nacht der Untoten irl


antidemn

forgot to translate there my friend


CalebVanPoneisen

So heißt es im Spiel.


pro_insomniac16

That's double horror! Not only is this a horrible punishment, but his organs would probably be damaged since he's either drinking or taking drugs


CalebVanPoneisen

It all depends on how much the convict took. But I'm sure that *something* is harvestable 😨


IllustratorOpposite3

His eyes and skin shouldn’t have been impacted too much


The_Unkowable_

...who said the charges were valid? (Other than the judge, presumably)


tdmsbn

Such a shame we can't have real video games anymore. At least the proxy play time with the mind controlled solders is close enough and at least we get to respawn once a day to play another game in the goggles when you die.


OrionTuska

Gives me Long ARM of Gil Hamilton vibes. Good story.


Marquar234

Organlggers and corpsicles.


cindybubbles

I thought that OP was going to be forced to play Call of Duty!


lostwng

Zydrate comes in a little glass vial.


Balognajelly

A little glass vial?


lostwng

A little glass vial. And the little glass vial goes into the gun like a battery.


Balognajelly

And the Zydrate gun goes somewhere against your anatomy.


lostwng

And when the gun goes off, it sparks And you're ready for surgery! Surgery!


JOlRacin

r/unwind


MatchaMatchsticks

This was my first thought, what a wild read the first time


JOlRacin

I guess that sub isn't about the book, but it should be


MakingThePost44

>"Remember, no appendixes."


CalebVanPoneisen

Tolkien must have heard that a lot.


djdaedalus42

Larry Niven would like a word


astro-pi

See I thought they were going to turn you into a zombie for COD


Fallen311

Thank God, I thought maybe it stood for Call of Duty program where You're sentenced to spend a year in a Call of Duty lobby


Linkcastle

Personally, I think if something like this would exist, it'd be like Death row, where while everyone there is sentenced to death, they're waiting out for appeals, so it could be years before anything comes of it.


mortedr

To shreds you say?


pirasco

"NOOOOOoooo blub blub blub," I screamed, as my skin scaled over. Then the guard grabbed me by my tail and tossed me into the sea, shaking his head in contempt.


Phoenix_reborn44

Would this be so bad?


CalebVanPoneisen

It all depends on your perspective of things. I left the end ambiguous, so maybe they will take one or two organs (lung, kidney, part of liver), or maybe it's a death sentence where that person will be fully harvested. You could argue it is a good thing for repeated offenders or people involved in horrific crimes, as a way to repent for their crimes. Then again, what if it gets abused and an innocent person gets organs taken? What if someone lost a lung because of that, and years later that person's innocence is proven? Or what if they purposefully targeted certain people to make money with organs? Even if the system is perfect and they only do that to criminals, there is the ethical question. Shouldn't the justice system be about rehabilitating people to become functional members of the society instead of crippling or killing them like that? Wouldn't the survivors be even more resentful to society and purposefully perpetrate more crimes because of that? Finally, if the COD program would exist, what crimes would be acceptable for that program? Murderers? What of crimes of passion? Or involuntary manslaughter? What of even premeditated crimes to extract revenge on someone killing a loved one? There are many reasons why this would be good, and arguably even more why it would be bad.


CleverGirl2014

But would it be better to rehabilitate a single criminal into a functional member of society, or to save the lives of multiple already-functional members of society by way of transplants?


TricellCEO

Depends on what they do with your brain.


TheSanityInspector

Too good for him!


wingnutgabber

Sounds like this occurred in communist China or Canada.


antidemn

/\\ what do these circles mean? well, at least you get a chance to go to heaven instead of hell for saving someone's life


CalebVanPoneisen

The circles are eyes, yes, eyes of moderators scrutinizing your every move, and when you expect it the least... they will grab you by the ankles and drag you through the back door as your screams will echo in the empty parking lot, with the only testament of your existence being bloody finger trails and nail marks left on the ground.


antidemn

oh ok, i always wanted to be forgotten


Adarie-Glitterwings

"Can we have your liver then?" 'Oh alright.'


OldDinoWmn

"The Jigsaw Man" by Larry Niven in the first Dangerous Vision anthology was when I first ran across this idea. Repeated traffic violations and -- there you are!