"KEEP REPEATING! It's Only A Movie! It's Only A Movie! It's Only A Movie!!!"
Posted on 11/17/2010 11:24:39 AM PST by JoeProBono
TITUSVILLE, Fla.- A Florida jail inmate awaiting trial is accusing the sheriff of "torture" by repeatedly showing the same movies.
James Poulin, 45, who has been in the Brevard County Detention Center for four years awaiting trial on a driving under the influence-manslaughter charge, wrote a letter to Florida Today saying Sheriff Jack Parker has been making inmates watch the same handful of movies over and over during the past year.
"Parker gathered up a bunch of old (movies) he had laying around and played them over and over for the next year," Poulin wrote. "I have seen 'Black Hawk Down,' 'Pearl Harbor,' 'Saving Private Ryan' and 'Battle Front' hundreds of times each, sometimes two or three times a day."
"Like the old Chinese water torture, the inescapable sounds of these movies over and over works on nerves and psyche," he wrote.
However, jail administrator Cmdr. Susan Jeter said no one is forced to watch the films.
"The jail provides a voluntary, video-programmed educational opportunity for the inmates," she said. "This program is available in the dayroom area ... They can go to their cells and read a book if they so choose."
"KEEP REPEATING! It's Only A Movie! It's Only A Movie! It's Only A Movie!!!"
GMTA
It happens. Tom DeLay's case has only now gone to trial. And he left before 2006 because of a political witchhunt.
I don’t know why they let inmates watch “Black Hawk Down” to begin with.
As for watching the same movies over and over again, that’s what we did when I spent my summers at Culver Military Academy. I don’t know how many times we watched “Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean” and the same Pink Panther cartoons. It was tiresome, but not torture.
Please send them:
Legally Blonde
Anything with Pauly Shore
Peewee Herman (lots of this)
Spongebob Squarepants
Thundercats
He Man
teletubbies
and any (ANY) of the guys who write songs for little kids and have a concert dvd of it.
I say give this man variety.
Nuff said.
I forgot:
Mad About You (any episode, pretty much the same thing)
Any of the 70s Don Cornelius’ blackspoitation movies.
Turner Classic Movies does the same thing to me, and I have to pay for it.
Hmmmmmm...easy...just give him a book to read...how about starting with Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.then War and Peace followed by Atlas Shrugged.
There that should take up some of his free time. ;)
The collected works of Lawrence Welk.
C&P is actually relatively short! Dostoevsky’s longest novel is ‘The Brothers Karamazov’.
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