Workin’ on a chain gang

A reader from Haysville called with an idea for dealing with the roving bands of armed thugs that terrorized New Orleans: “Put them on a chain gang and make them clean up some of the mess. Maybe it would teach them something.”
Great idea, although this sounds too good for them. Maybe feed them to alligators?
Posted by Randy Scholfield

13 Comments

  1. Joe Williams
    Posted September 5, 2005 at 6:50 am | Permalink

    I thought they got rid of Chain Gangs because it was considered “Cruel and Unusual Punishment”

  2. Damoon
    Posted September 5, 2005 at 10:07 am | Permalink

    Sounds good to me, I think it’s more effective to punish criminals rather than try to “rehabilitate” them, gives them motivation to stay out of jail.

  3. Ed Friedemann
    Posted September 5, 2005 at 12:07 pm | Permalink

    Maybe feed them to alligators? And make the alligators sick?

  4. Ian Santiago
    Posted September 5, 2005 at 1:31 pm | Permalink

    Do alligators eat baboons?

  5. J M Walker
    Posted September 5, 2005 at 2:56 pm | Permalink

    Dey gottum in missippi.

  6. Ed Friedemann
    Posted September 5, 2005 at 5:12 pm | Permalink

    Mis….sis….sippi.

  7. Joe
    Posted September 5, 2005 at 5:56 pm | Permalink

    Gotta catch them first. Most will find a small boat big enough for their loot and flee. Should be setting up troops in the Mississippi river to catch the vermin. THEN put them in yellow jump suits and do the chain gang thing.

  8. Arizona
    Posted September 5, 2005 at 7:39 pm | Permalink

    Nope, chain gangs still exist. Not uncommon to see them around the greater Phoenix area doing clean up work. That’s way Sheriff Joe, the toughest Sheriff in the nation likes it.

  9. Arizona
    Posted September 5, 2005 at 7:39 pm | Permalink

    Nope, chain gangs still exist. Not uncommon to see them around the greater Phoenix area doing clean up work. That’s way Sheriff Joe, the toughest Sheriff in the nation likes it.

  10. Damoon
    Posted September 5, 2005 at 9:01 pm | Permalink

    My hat’s off to Sheriff Joe!! He should be the role model for the rest of the country.

  11. Brian
    Posted September 6, 2005 at 6:54 am | Permalink

    Prisons were more commonly called penitentiaries a few hundred years ago…trhey were places for meditation on one’s actions in the hopes that one would see the light and become penitent.

    The Dutch had a novel way of helping the prisoner towards penitence. They’d place him in an enclosed cell with a bucket. The room had a small window well above his head. The keeper would then open a water main so that the room began to fill with water. The prisoner had to use the bucket to bail the water out the window or else eventually drown. After a few sessions of this type of “penitence through exertion”, most prisoners saw the error of their ways.

    Seems like this is just rediscovering the wheel.

  12. Tracy
    Posted September 7, 2005 at 7:39 pm | Permalink

    SHAKIN’ IT OVER HERE BOSS.

  13. Tracy
    Posted September 7, 2005 at 7:42 pm | Permalink

    GET CAUGHT WITH LOOTED GOODS UNDER YOU BUNK….SPEND A NIGHT IN THE BOX.