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Inmates go on sausage ‘temper tantrum’
N.M. prisoners angry after being told they could only have 1 dinner sausage
HOBBS, N.M. – Some Lea County inmates set fires and broke toilets and windows after being told they would be allowed only one sausage at dinner. Jail officials said the inmates began yelling and banging on their doors in what they described in a news release as a “temper tantrum.”
Officers from the Lea County Sheriff’s and Hobbs Police departments were called in to restore control, and the jail was locked down after Tuesday night’s incident.
Some 33 prisoners were involved, Warden Jann Gartman said.
Well, it’s obvious that we can’t employ King John’s methods, of simply starving prisoners to death, but the idea that the poor dears were upset because they got only one piece of sausage somehow fails to invoke a great deal of sympathy from me. Put ‘em in solitary and feed ‘em bread and water for a while.
Instead of a second sausage, maybe they could just give the prisoners a carefully screened religious text.
I never sausage a riot like that.
My husband’s first response was, “How big was the sausage? If they were little bitty, I might have some sympathy.”