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How many people do you know who are in prison or who are ex-convicts?
« on: December 03, 2008, 12:22:35 PM »
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Poll question: How many people do you know who are in prison or who are ex-convicts?
   
What does this say about anything in particular for you?

Poll result (38 votes)
I do not know a prisoner or ex-con   (13 votes, 34%)   Vote
I know a prisoner   (0 votes, 0%)   Vote
I know an ex-con   (6 votes, 16%)   Vote
i know both a prisoner and an ex con   (5 votes, 13%)   Vote
i know several prisoners and/or ex cons   (14 votes, 37%)   Vote
other   (0 votes, 0%)   Vote

Personally, I don't know anyone who has ever been in prison.  I wouldn't consider spending a night in the drunk tank or getting a DUI "prison".  I'm looking forward to the DUmmies regaling us with tales of prison woe.
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Re: How many people do you know who are in prison or who are ex-convicts?
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2008, 12:30:49 PM »
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Re: How many people do you know who are in prison or who are ex-convicts?
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2008, 12:32:46 PM »
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Re: How many people do you know who are in prison or who are ex-convicts?
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2008, 01:07:54 PM »
It forgot a category. 

How many of you ARE prisoners or exconvicts.

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Re: How many people do you know who are in prison or who are ex-convicts?
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2008, 01:21:27 PM »
(Raises hand)   But it was a misdemeanor. :thatsright:
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Re: How many people do you know who are in prison or who are ex-convicts?
« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2008, 01:23:41 PM »


"Ever been in a Turkish prison, DUmmy?"
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Re: How many people do you know who are in prison or who are ex-convicts?
« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2008, 01:38:14 PM »
Sometimes when someone looks at me and says "Don't I know you from somewhere?,"  I'll reply "Have you ever been to prison?"  Usually good for a laugh or two.

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Re: How many people do you know who are in prison or who are ex-convicts?
« Reply #7 on: December 03, 2008, 01:44:19 PM »
Quote from: Texacon on December 03, 2008, 01:07:54 PM
It forgot a category. 

How many of you ARE prisoners or exconvicts.

KC

Exactly what I was thinking when I saw the topic.

How many times has The1Idiot been arrested?
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Re: How many people do you know who are in prison or who are ex-convicts?
« Reply #8 on: December 03, 2008, 02:11:16 PM »
Lots of families have a black sheep, 'knowing' someone who is or has been a prisoner is not all that unusual.  But since these are DUmmies, I expect the responses concern willing associations with drug dealers, illegal drug makers, and miscellaneous sneak thieves. 
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Re: How many people do you know who are in prison or who are ex-convicts?
« Reply #9 on: December 03, 2008, 02:35:09 PM »
My uncle did 7 years for rolling up his car window on a guy's arm that tried to hit him and dragging him through six mailboxes and a telephone pole. Yes, it did involve drugs and money.  It's either a pure miracle or a pure shame he ain't dead, and to tell you the truth I don't know which it is.
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Re: How many people do you know who are in prison or who are ex-convicts?
« Reply #10 on: December 03, 2008, 03:55:15 PM »
I know of only 3 people that went to prison.

One for assaulting his Ex girlfriend

One for using an AR-15 to shoot up a neighborhood and an Sherriffs Deputies thumb off after breaking up with his girlfriend.

One for murder after seeing one guy hanging out with his soon to be ex wife.

Never would have guessed how two of them would have ended up but the first one probably was a given. I also know of a former classmate that was shot by the cops two years ago during a raid on his home to recover a stolen cops gun. To tell the truth the cops did society a favor.
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Re: How many people do you know who are in prison or who are ex-convicts?
« Reply #11 on: December 03, 2008, 09:26:35 PM »
I know of one...maybe two.  Both were friends of my kids, raised in homes that were alternately abusive and neglectful.  One I know went to prison for 2 years, he tried to rip off his sister's boyfriend by selling him shaved candle wax, went to prison for "dealing drugs."  The other, I'm not sure about...I heard he'd gotten into trouble, but not what or if it was just jail time.
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Re: How many people do you know who are in prison or who are ex-convicts?
« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2008, 12:22:59 AM »
Quote from: MrsSmith on December 03, 2008, 09:26:35 PM
I know of one...maybe two.  Both were friends of my kids, raised in homes that were alternately abusive and neglectful.  One I know went to prison for 2 years, he tried to rip off his sister's boyfriend by selling him shaved candle wax, went to prison for "dealing drugs."  The other, I'm not sure about...I heard he'd gotten into trouble, but not what or if it was just jail time.

Guess I better stay outa this one! :cheers1:
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Re: How many people do you know who are in prison or who are ex-convicts?
« Reply #13 on: December 04, 2008, 12:34:28 AM »
Quote from: Airwolf on December 03, 2008, 03:55:15 PM
I know of only 3 people that went to prison.

One for assaulting his Ex girlfriend

One for using an AR-15 to shoot up a neighborhood and an Sherriffs Deputies thumb off after breaking up with his girlfriend.

One for murder after seeing one gut hanging out with his soon to be ex wife.

Never would have guessed how two of them would have ended up but the first one probably was a given. I also know of a former classmate that was shot by the cops two years ago during a raid on his home to recover a stolen cops gun. To tell the truth the cops did society a favor.

Jeeze -- I hope your current posse is a bit more relaxed.
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Re: How many people do you know who are in prison or who are ex-convicts?
« Reply #14 on: December 04, 2008, 07:10:44 AM »
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6. I work with a couple of ex-cons
 My direct superior is one, and until recently still had to wear an ankle bracelet
 

Where does he work? :o


BTW. Where is Joanne98 with her response in this thread? Her son is a convict.
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Re: How many people do you know who are in prison or who are ex-convicts?
« Reply #15 on: December 04, 2008, 07:13:07 AM »
I know a few guys who have done time in the county lock up.  One I think was for BnE.  The other for statutory rape (18 and 14).  Ahh...  high school friends for the lose.
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Re: How many people do you know who are in prison or who are ex-convicts?
« Reply #16 on: December 04, 2008, 07:40:48 AM »
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Re: How many people do you know who are in prison or who are ex-convicts?
« Reply #17 on: December 04, 2008, 12:10:34 PM »
Quote from: Airwolf on December 03, 2008, 03:55:15 PM
I know of only 3 people that went to prison.

One for assaulting his Ex girlfriend

One for using an AR-15 to shoot up a neighborhood and an Sherriffs Deputies thumb off after breaking up with his girlfriend.

One for murder after seeing one gut hanging out with his soon to be ex wife.

Never would have guessed how two of them would have ended up but the first one probably was a given. I also know of a former classmate that was shot by the cops two years ago during a raid on his home to recover a stolen cops gun. To tell the truth the cops did society a favor.

Damn, all those people you know who went to prison did it over a relationship gone sour.
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Re: How many people do you know who are in prison or who are ex-convicts?
« Reply #18 on: December 04, 2008, 01:26:16 PM »

Heh....My ex-husband:

3 DUI's
Violation of Protection Order (3 instances, including the one when he tried to break into my house, which added an attempted Burglary to that case)
Assault on a Police Officer (2 charges, two different times)
Assault on the passenger of a car he bumped during his last DUI's

He served 15 months in jail, a year in rehab and is currently on 5 years probation. He has an 18 year jail sentence hanging over his head if he f*cks up again/violates the terms of his probation.
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Re: How many people do you know who are in prison or who are ex-convicts?
« Reply #19 on: December 04, 2008, 04:58:25 PM »
I've known a few people that have been to jail, including my Uncle.  I try not to judge, the vast majority that I've met were trying to straighten up their lives.
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Re: How many people do you know who are in prison or who are ex-convicts?
« Reply #20 on: December 04, 2008, 05:03:17 PM »
Quote from: freedumb2003 on December 04, 2008, 12:34:28 AM
Jeeze -- I hope your current posse is a bit more relaxed.

Well I only knew them as either classmates from school or like the one with the AR-15,he was someone from my old National Guard unit. I never ran with the former classmates now jail house interns. The guy that got shot for hanging with the other guys wife was killed witha Ruger .44 Magnum Rifle in the towns bowling alley in front of around 100 people. He was two grades ahead of me and one of the Schools better jocks. The guy that killed him was one of those quiet types and after his older brother had killed another guy,swore he would never end up like that.
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Re: How many people do you know who are in prison or who are ex-convicts?
« Reply #21 on: December 04, 2008, 05:17:53 PM »
Quote from: Scoobie on December 04, 2008, 01:26:16 PM
Heh....My ex-husband:

3 DUI's
Violation of Protection Order (3 instances, including the one when he tried to break into my house, which added an attempted Burglary to that case)
Assault on a Police Officer (2 charges, two different times)
Assault on the passenger of a car he bumped during his last DUI's

He served 15 months in jail, a year in rehab and is currently on 5 years probation. He has an 18 year jail sentence hanging over his head if he f*cks up again/violates the terms of his probation.


Why does this guy read like someone I've seen on an episode of Cops ?
But to answer the question, personally, not beyond people who got to spend a night in the drunk-tank.
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Re: How many people do you know who are in prison or who are ex-convicts?
« Reply #22 on: December 05, 2008, 08:09:48 PM »
Quote from: miskie on December 04, 2008, 05:17:53 PM
Why does this guy read like someone I've seen on an episode of Cops ?
But to answer the question, personally, not beyond people who got to spend a night in the drunk-tank.

Sounds like he is one of the reasons they came up with the 3 strikes law. This guy is habitual!!!
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