Do you want to be out of jail? Donate a kidney.

[orlandobr]

This was supposed to be another LJ-less day, until I saw this:

For the past 16 years, sisters Gladys and Jamie Scott have been serving life sentences for an armed robbery during which $11 was stolen and no one was seriously injured.

After reading that, I thought it was Texas, but no: it is Mississippi. One is as bad as the other, it seems. But I

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[scrapdog]

Armed robbery is armed robbery. What you walked away with, be it $10000, $11, or nothing, is immaterial. You still held a gun to someone's head.

[orlandobr]

And everything is OK, if you spare the state the cost of your dialisis.

[scrapdog]

Yes, the sentence is a bit harsh, and yes, the kidney-for-freedom thing is unorthodox.

My point is that I don't know why the $11 was even mentioned at all.

[orlandobr]

Because it offers a nice contrast with both the sentence and the arrangement: these women were considered too dangerous to live among the rest of society, until one of them cost 200k/year to that same society. Now, they are not that dangerous...

[orlandobr]

Hai!

Yes, it was a virusy-thing, but it is under control now... for now. Sorry for the inconvenience. :)

[orlandobr]

Islamic rabbit? Hmmm...