Very hot again.
A trip to the local drugstore involves turning on the air conditioning
in the car a few minutes before leaving.
I like the way they say it is 93 but it feels like 99. How do they get to that conclusion, I wonder, I didn't think it even felt like 93.
The escaped convict who was recaptured is in hospital and has been, surprisingly, very chatty, detailing his escape and how long they'd been planning it (which is making everyone back at the prison very nervous) He split up from his cohort five days ago because he had blisters and was slowing him down, so wasn't in the vicinity when the guy was shot dead.
When he leaves hospital he will be going to a "supermax" prison. And there prisoners have to be looked at every 15 minutes.
The prison from which he escaped was a 'maximum security', I guess that is what we would call an 'open prison'. That is where obliging guards show you the catwalks, so you can go down and fiddle with the electricity switches to enable you to use your hotplate in your cell to make hamburgers. The meat for the hamburgers is also obligingly brought in for you (I wonder if anyone thought of the buns) and if you are lucky there are tools hidden in the ground beef to facilitate your getaway along the catwalks.
This evening someone said that the tools hidden in the ground beef would be totally inadequate to cut through the steel pipes and things, that they had to have had outside help.
This evening someone said that the tools hidden in the ground beef would be totally inadequate to cut through the steel pipes and things, that they had to have had outside help.
I could just imagine if this happened in Britain, what a Field Day the cartoonists would be having.
What I just can't get my head around though is that they don't seem to have governors, or anyone in charge of the prisons. No one claiming to be anything like a governor has come forward. And what further baffles me is that no one is asking why, or where are they.
I guess I won't be heading off to any parades in New York, or elsewhere. I'll just stay here in the quiet Mid West and mind my own business.
today in history…..2009.
Bernie Madoff, the notorious scam artist, was sentenced to 150 years in
prison for ripping off his victims.
Today he is gainfully employed in prison wiping down computers and
phones for $40 a month. Some have said
that is $39 too much.
Sadly it has been said that there are many victims who
lost more than money. His son Mark
committed suicide, but he was not the only one.
A French financier had
slit his wrist with a box cutter and bled to death in his office. A British
investor shot himself, and another Madoff victim hanged himself in a London
hotel room, and it is believed there were even more than these suicides. Trivia answer - 35.
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