Posted on 09/13/2007 4:36:07 PM PDT by decimon
HOBBS, N.M. -- Some prisoners in the Lea County jail started fires and broke toilets and windows after they were told they would be allowed only one sausage each for dinner.
Warden Jann Gartman said 33 prisoners were involved in the melee Tuesday evening. Officers from the Lea County Sheriff's and Hobbs police departments were called to the jail to restore control. The jail was locked down after the incident.
Gartman said damage to the jail was light.
Charges against the rebellious prisoners were pending Thursday morning. The other 300 prisoners accepted the meal without incident.
You Gets No Bread with One Meatball!
A little man walked up and down,
He found an eating place in town,
He read the menu through and through,
To see what fifteen cents could do.
One meatball, one meatball,
He could afford but one meatball.
He told the waiter near at hand,
The simple dinner he had planned.
The guests were startled, one and all,
To hear that waiter loudly call, “What,
“One meatball, one meatball?
Hey, this here gent wants one meatball.”
The little man felt ill at ease,
Said, “Some bread, sir, if you please.”
The waiter hollered down the hall,
“You gets no bread with one meatball.”
They'll never link him to that.
I thought they got all the sausage they didn’t want in prison.
Jeez. I live down here but don't pick up a local paper so wouldn't have known about the riot disturbance unless they burnt the jail down.
It's a bit different when I lived in Santa Fe during the 1980's when the big one hit in February. Thirty-three inmates dead, guards brutally tortured but lived, prison burnt and unusable, the entire city under lockdown, St. Vincent's hospital an armed camp with NG helicopter's landing with over 100 injured inmates. It's one of those defining moments for me and I remember distinctly the "chump-chump-chump" of the Huey's rotor blades as they flew back and forth overhead.
See this link:
For sanity purposes I’ll assume thats a sausage.
“Any old “swabbies” out there will recall that if you screwed up you could get three days of bread and water.”
My best friend got that once for what I can’t remember. They still did it when I was a chaser at the brig in Orlando back in 68’. I told someone about that recently and they wouldn’t believe me.
What hell McGarrett holding LOL!
They've just had enough of Hobbs.
Check it out on Google Earth or somesuch.
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