Two-Hundred-Forty-Two?

Anyone else see a failure in the system here?

• A man was arrested for the 242nd time Thursday night --this time after allegedly touching customers aggressively on an outside patio of an upscale Gold Coast restaurant, police said.

  Darryl Marlow, 54, of 940 N. Cambridge Ave., was arrested at 6:05 p.m. at Tavern on Rush, 1031 N. Rush St., according to police who said Marlow was cited with panhandling in a prohibited manner after violating a city ordinance.

  Marlow was seen reaching into Tavern on Rush’s outside patio seating area where food was being served and touching customers while aggressively panhandling for money, according to a police report.

So exactly when does this rise to the level of imprisoning or committing the mentally ill person so he stops bothering people? He's obviously incapable of functioning in society. We'll forgo our standard snide comment about bringing back street executions for the moment, but this individual has proven beyond a doubt that the system is broken.

One hundred arrests really ought to be a life sentence somewhere.