slvemike4u
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Joined: 1/15/2008 From: United States Status: offline
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Thanks GM....i really ,really did not mean to offend or make light of a disgusting fact. It's always stuck with me meeting a young black man in Sheriff Job's jail in east rutherford New Jersey(I has been apprehended trying to see to the pharmaceutical needs of Deadheads at a concert in the Meadowlands)I had been arrested on a saturday and was awaiting my court appearance on Monday...an appearance that I knew would lead to bail and leaving Sheriff Job's hospitality behind...anyway I met this young black man who had been there awhile and would sit for a few months more till his court date.The charge was GTA....his bail was 1,000 dollars....and there he sat. At the time,it struck me as odd, I thought the distinction was that this young black man had no one who cared enough to raise a pittance,a mere one thousand dollars to bring him home. I now know it probably wasn't a lack of care nor love...it was the lack of money keeping him sitting there. No 1,000 sitting around,no property in which to secure the services of a bail bondsman. So while I was just passing through....he was calling Sheriff Jobs little place home for over a year....for a joy ride. I went home and figured out how to pay my lawyer....he sat and hoped the sentence when he finally saw the judge was time served...and the prison record that went with it. Further depressing his prospects
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If we want things to stay as they are,things will have to change...Tancredi from "the Leopard" Forget Guns-----Ban the pools Funny stuff....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNwFf991d-4
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