[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Two questions:

1. Why are they covered with sheets? (Not ever having been arrested, I have to ask.)

2. Why couldn't the cops have just hiked the sheets up over their heads so we wouldn't have to look at their ugly mugs?

[Truthbringer]

2. Why couldn't the cops have just hiked the sheets up over their heads so we wouldn't have to look at their ugly mugs?

Because then we couldn't laugh at the blank looks on their faces.

[Tredge]

Perhaps they're wearing T-shirts with vulgar messages...I'm just guessing.

[SE Mom]

The article states" If you're wondering about the sheets Smith and Wolff are wearing, they're not Bedouins. As a courtesy, the Pima jailers use them to cover the lockup's standard-issue orange jumpsuits."

[Attillathehon]

1. Why are they covered with sheets? (

To hide their Kerry/Edwards buttons.

[GladesGuru]

Why couldn't the cops have just hiked the sheets up over their heads so we wouldn't have to look at their ugly mugs?

Could it be because they were being photographed for "Mug shots"? :)