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Underwear shortage strikes Thai Prisons
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Posted on 05/30/2005 8:01:06 PM PDT by Nascardude
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Female inmates in Thailand's prisons are so short of underwear that the head of the main women's prison appealed to the public for donations - new or recycled.
The director of the Central Women's Prison, Ankhanueng Lebnak, said Friday that the government refuses to provide a budget to buy each female prisoner more than two pairs of underpants each year because they are considered a luxury item, the official Thai News Agency reported.
An appeal for assistance yielded donations of 74,010 new and used garments, and Ankhanueng began distributing the extra underwear to prisons across the country on Friday, the report said.
Thailand, with a population of 65 million people, holds more than 250,000 prisoners, about one-fifth of whom are women. The prison population has grown dramatically in recent years because of convictions for drug offences, and most facilities hold many more convicts than their planned capacity.
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Maybe they could borrow some from Saddam. :)
To: Nascardude
Maybe they could borrow some from Abu Grav.
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posted on
05/30/2005 8:06:19 PM PDT
by
Paleo Conservative
(Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Andrew Heyward's got to go!)
To: Nascardude
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posted on
05/30/2005 8:07:37 PM PDT
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
("As a conservative site, Free Republic is pro-G-d, PRO-LIFE..." -- FR founder Jim Robinson)
To: Nascardude
donations - new or recycled I cringe at the thought of a few possible donors...
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posted on
05/30/2005 8:11:57 PM PDT
by
NCjim
(The more I use Windows, the more I love UNIX)
To: Nita Nupress
Here is a charity cause made to order for X-42.
To: NCjim
The Clinton's have routinely "dontated" their used underwear to the Salvation Army. I am sure if Hillary thought she could get some press coverage for this, she would take up the cause for those oppressed prisoners in Thailand.
To: Nascardude
Sounds like a job opportunity for convicted Abu Garhib soldiers. International community service.
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posted on
05/30/2005 8:19:25 PM PDT
by
BIGLOOK
(I once opposed keelhauling but recently have come to my senses.)
To: Nascardude
Good news - everyone gets a change of underwear.
Bad news - Smith change with Jones....
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posted on
05/30/2005 8:25:04 PM PDT
by
Hessian
(Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
To: cynblogger
Looking at Hillary I'm guessing she wears size XXXL, the women in jail could probably use her bloomers for parachutes.
To: Nascardude
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posted on
05/30/2005 8:57:29 PM PDT
by
Bobalu
(This is not the tag line you are looking for.....move along (waves hand))
To: Hessian
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posted on
05/30/2005 9:10:21 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
("Some people are desperate for whatever they're desperate for," - Bubba Fink)
To: NCjim
I cringe at the thought of a few possible donors..I'd go without underwear before I'd wear used...ulk.
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posted on
05/30/2005 9:36:37 PM PDT
by
processing please hold
(Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
To: Nascardude
Bubba could use another write-off right about now, IF they don't mind slightly skidded.
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posted on
05/30/2005 9:40:00 PM PDT
by
Miss Behave
(Do androids dream of electric sheep?)
To: Nascardude; Petronski
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posted on
05/30/2005 9:43:40 PM PDT
by
Miss Behave
(Do androids dream of electric sheep?)
To: cynblogger
Hill's under-ware could be cut into 4's and would still not be revealing.
To: KingNo155
Wasn't this the plot of an "After-Hours" movie on Cinemax recently?
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posted on
05/31/2005 4:20:44 AM PDT
by
arkham
To: AlbertWang
That's about what I was thinking. :)
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posted on
05/31/2005 4:24:23 AM PDT
by
muggs
To: Nascardude
"Today - we have some good news. . . there will be an underwear exchange."
"Ok now - you change with that lady. You over there - change with her . . ."
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posted on
05/31/2005 4:45:50 AM PDT
by
Bear_Slayer
(DOC - 81 MM Mortars, Wpns Co. 2/3 KMCAS 86-89)
To: Hessian
You beat me to it. . . :-(
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posted on
05/31/2005 4:47:06 AM PDT
by
Bear_Slayer
(DOC - 81 MM Mortars, Wpns Co. 2/3 KMCAS 86-89)
To: KingNo155
"Hill's under-ware could be cut into 4's and would still not be revealing."Don't ask my how, but I read your first two words as "Hill's under-CARRIAGE...."
And then I had to stop dead, in the interest of early morning violent illness self-preservation.
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posted on
05/31/2005 5:37:16 AM PDT
by
Miss Behave
(Do androids dream of electric sheep?)
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