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[DanaC]

The expressions on the guards' faces are priceless.

[Sundae]

Being fat is not funny.
Be nice.

[glatt]

Well he's not particularly fat. They just made the hole too small, and if you look at the other pictures, they left lots of concrete reinforcing wires poking out of the hole's edges because all they had was a pipe to do the cutting, and it's the wire jabbing into him that seems to be the real problem.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The little guy is lucky he went first.

[Sundae]

I posted that in a lighthearted manner btw.

[DanaC]

Yeah, but actually, I followed the link and I found it less funny when i read the article.

"The other prisoners tried to push him but he stayed stuck in the wall. He started screaming in pain, and that was when the prison guards were alerted."

Prison breaks are common in Brazilian jails, where conditions are severe.

According to Amnesty International's annual report: “Prisons remained severely overcrowded and inmates were held in conditions amounting to cruel, degrading or inhuman treatment. The authorities had effectively lost control of many facilities, leading to a series of riots and homicides."

[Sundae]

I read a book about a woman held imprisoned in Thailand for drug smuggling.
She was guilty and freely admitted it, although she was coerced and some of it was a bit "wah wah wah".

Still, she said that her time in the "Bangkok Hilton", one of the most notoriious prisons in the world, was better than prison in the UK when she was released back here to serve the rest of her sentence. Because there she had work to do, she met and conversed with other women, she felt her time was served - if not usefully - then at least productively. Prison in the UK in comparison was a death of the mind and the soul.

She might not have had the "three hots and a cot" that people so resent here, but she certainly had the punishment. Not sure why. It certainly wasn't intended as protection for society, or even rehab. What kind of stupid of numb cunt would ever try to smuggle drugs after a conviction?

I quite like what the Dutch do.
Take the drugs, destroy them, send the mules back home.
They don't pay for their upkeep, they don't pay for trials, they just pack them off. Now that's a deterrant, surely? To anyone so desperate for food and housing to want to go to prison? Which according to our right wing press, all crimials secretly want to do.

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by Sundae

I quite like what the Dutch do.
Take the drugs, destroy them,

yeah, destroy them, right. Just the thing I'd do if I were a Dutch narcotics officer.


Hey! New career idea coming!!!

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by Trilby

yeah, destroy them, right. Just the thing I'd do if I were a Dutch narcotics officer.


Hey! New career idea coming!!!

Isn't destroy a synonym for re-sell?

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Isn't destroy a synonym for re-sell?

Not in my Dutch-to-English book. It's a synonym for 'partake of yourself why don't you?'

[footfootfoot]

@ Dana

Y'all don't never want to go to a South American prison.

[footfootfoot]

Well, they don't specify how the drugs were destroyed, did they? I imagine after they've been used once they're really no good to anyone anymore.

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Well, they don't specify how the drugs were destroyed, did they? I imagine after they've been used once they're really no good to anyone anymore.

Not unless it's a suppository and you accidentally poop it out.


(shades of Trainspotting) The Filthiest Toilet in Edinborough

[Ibby]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Well, they don't specify how the drugs were destroyed, did they? I imagine after they've been used once they're really no good to anyone anymore.

"yes, lieutenant, I burned the entire shipment. Yes, the whole pound of it. What? Oh, yes sir, it did take a while, but only a week or so, sir. I had some help."

[Trilby]

Oh, wow.

The nurse who was the subject of a prank call about Kate being in the hospital (some DJ's called and pretended to be Queen and Duke or whatever) and this nurse has now been found dead.

Apparently a suicide.

Who'd think that a little joke like that could go so wrong?