Merlene Maten's bail was set at $50,000 and she spent over two weeks in jail over a sausage.Merlene Maten's bail was set at $50,000 and she spent over two weeks in jail over a sausage. I'm having trouble with the mechanics of this. Was she suspended by a rope, above a sausage? Was the sausage in, or under, her bed? Or was the entire jail constructed above a sausage?
It's interesting. I just saw the movie Cinderella Man, the biography of James J. Braddock. The movie is set in the Great Depression. In one scene, Braddock's son stole a sausage from the butcher. Braddock returns the boy and the sausage.
His kid confesses that his friends were sent away because there was no food and he was afraid he was going away, so he stole. Braddock looks his kid in the eye and says, "We don't steal. We never steal."