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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 698680)

Um, before you juice up the electric chair...it's a joke news site. You guys knew that. Right? RIGHT?

I mean GAWD I hope that was apparent. :lol2:

This from the Chive reader?

What?!?!? It's not trewwww???

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot (Post 698697)

This from the Chive reader?

The funny thing is, you two thought it was trewwww!!?!?.?;!?)*$

(13 pieces of flair, in form of punctuation)

Chive turkey. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary (Post 699484)

Very weird.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101211/...mutilated_body

Yeah, my first question, after WTF? would be WTFF? Then, drugs? because, seriously, WTF?

You've got to have a sense of humor for this news story:

NY Times
Inmates in Georgia Prisons Use Contraband Phones to Coordinate Protest
By SARAH WHEATON
Published: December 12, 2010

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The prison protest has entered the wireless age.

Inmates in at least seven Georgia prisons have used contraband cellphones
to coordinate a nonviolent strike this weekend, saying they want better living conditions
and to be paid for work they do in the prisons.

Inmates said they would not perform chores, work for the Corrections Department’s industrial arm
or shop at prison commissaries until a list of demands are addressed, including compensation for their work,
more educational opportunities, better food and sentencing rules changes.

The protest began Thursday, but inmates said that organizers had spent months
building a web of disparate factions and gangs — groups not known to cooperate -
into a unified coalition using text messaging and word of mouth.

I particularly enjoyed these lines of the story:

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Smuggled cellphones have been commonplace in prisons for years;<snip>
But the Georgia protest appears to be the first use of the technology
to orchestrate a grass-roots movement behind bars.

I didn't realize how progressive Georgia had become :D

Guess where they hide those contraband phones. Would you talk into one of them? You know, up close to your face. And mouth...

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 699972)

Guess where they hide those contraband phones. Would you talk into one of them? You know, up close to your face. And mouth...

A good one regarding porno flicks...

Vibrator...

then Ass to mouth.

Man avoids jail in hit-and-run because of his job

I don't see how the prosecutor can justify this.

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EAGLE COUNTY, Colo. -- Prosecutors have dropped felony charges against a man accused in a hit-and-run because prosecutors don't want the man to lose his job as a financial manager.

Martin Joel Erzinger, 52, is accused of hitting cyclist Dr. Steven Milo in July then speeding away. Milo was seriously injured.

When Avon police found Erzinger a few miles away, he was putting a broken side mirror and a bumper in his trunk, according to court records obtained by the Summit Daily News. Erzinger told police he was unaware he had hit Milo.

Erzinger works at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in Denver. He manages more than $1 billion in assets as a director in private wealth management and would have to disclose any felony charge within 30 days, according to North American Securities Dealers regulations.

"Mr. Erzinger struck me, fled and left me for dead on the highway," Milo said in a letter to District Attorney Mark Hurlbert. "Neither his financial prominence nor my financial situation should be factors in your prosecution of this case."

"Felony convictions have some pretty serious job implications for someone in Mr. Erzinger's profession, and that entered into (the decision)," Hurlbert told the newspaper. "When you're talking about restitution, you don't want to take away his ability to pay."

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The rest is here.

That's just crazy.

Crazy, but not surprising if you've been following the news for the past, oh, I don't know, century?

But the prosecutor doesn't usually admit to the newspapers that they're letting the guy off because he manages a billion dollar's in assets in private wealth management.

It's not so much that it's become acceptable, more that it's become almost rebellious. "You want to pick on us rich folks? Well, here you go, put that in your pipe and smoke it." They're like the James Deans of the upper crust.

As foot said, it's been happening forever, but now it's like Rich Chic to throw it in people's faces.

Wow, he will go far with all those chips...

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/lo...111871474.html