That sounds fine with me, but they would probably sue the Government there for some form of emotional distress or racism or something or other.
Posted on 08/15/2006 10:50:29 PM PDT by Stoat
I think that if suspects' families were put up in high-end hotels with unlimited food and telephone priviledges we would have heard about it by now.
Wait since when do people who get arrested get to have their family set up in luxury hotels?? I have never seen that before.
I haven't either....but I don't know how that's dealt with in the USA....surely they are given low end accommodations?
not that I know of.
Oh, I see what you mean now... I guess in many places they might get a motel room if the cops are keeping them from home.
Are we all just crazy or what? Is it something in the water world wide? Where oh where have our senses gone in this world?
I need a vacation...Think I'll plant someting on my roomate.../s
I would be interested to hear about how some of our FReepers from the UK feel about having their hard-earned tax dollars going to pay for 'luxury accommodations' for families of people who tried to murder thousands of their countrymen and women.
And to answer your questions I would say yes, quite likely and I'm sorry I have no idea.
Be sure that you do it in Great Britain....over here they would probably put you up in a Motel 6 with a $10. / day McDonalds coupon
Put them in The Tower of London, with authentic medieval accomodations!
That sounds fine with me, but they would probably sue the Government there for some form of emotional distress or racism or something or other.
Oh, jeesh, we don't even have it this good when we're on jury duty.
I thought they would appreciate the ambience!
Wonder what country they were calling.
Wonder what country they were calling.
Would it even be possible to spend that much money in ONE DAY on telephone charges unless they were calling some sort of "rent a harlot" service?
Hmmm, £800-a-day would be £33 1/3 per hour, £.56 per minute. Maybe that's the going rate for a goat phone sex hotline? Perhaps they listen to goat noises on a speakerphone 24/7.
Oh well half of what they spend will go back to the government anyway!
Seeing as the principle is innocent until proven guilty, I don’t think these people can be turfed out on the street. But why they have to be in hotels where they are able to spend £1,300 on food in 24 hours, I do not know.
"I would be interested to hear about how some of our FReepers from the UK feel about having their hard-earned tax dollars going to pay for 'luxury accommodations' for families of people who tried to murder thousands of their countrymen and women."
Not happy of course; but I do have to take into account the fact that The Sun is not exactly the best journal of record.
Hmmm, £800-a-day would be £33 1/3 per hour, £.56 per minute. Maybe that's the going rate for a goat phone sex hotline? Perhaps they listen to goat noises on a speakerphone 24/7.
Your breakdown makes it seem entirely feasible...I have no doubt that calling Yemen from the room phone at an upscale London hotel might run several pounds per minute....aren't the rates for the Airphones on planes something like $10. / minute ? I stand corrected, I can see how even a days' worth of heavy terror-plotting on the phone with Ahmed in Tehran might run up a bill like that.
As to the goat noises 24/7, that's quite likely too....those poor terrorists are probably lonely.
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easily, UK hotel international telephone charges approach the bizarre and extortionate.
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