Attica On The Beach
April 6, 2012 8:56 AM Subscribe
There is a small jail on Santa Catalina Island. And apparently, it pays to be sent there, when you're a pro golfer....
Damn, I wish I could really play golf. I've been to Catalina, and I'd rather be in jail there than at work here, let me tell you.
posted by Naberius at 9:10 AM on April 6, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by Naberius at 9:10 AM on April 6, 2012 [1 favorite]
I think this is the way things SHOULD be. That's what the investigation should be about.
posted by gagglezoomer at 9:20 AM on April 6, 2012 [3 favorites]
posted by gagglezoomer at 9:20 AM on April 6, 2012 [3 favorites]
I know I am totally going to sound like a liberal here, but I almost felt sorry for the prisoner. If I were a true liberal I probably would feel sorry for him.
Seriously, you get arrested for a crime and then you have to go help out the warden with a personal problem? That would be like if I had to go to jail I'd end up fixing this dude's computer. Screw that, let me hang out in my cell and watch cable. Don't parade me around a golf course in my prison jumpsuit. A man has a right to dignity!
Somehow though, I can't muster try pity. Since, I can't wrap my head around pro golfer/jewel thief.
posted by cjorgensen at 10:21 AM on April 6, 2012
Seriously, you get arrested for a crime and then you have to go help out the warden with a personal problem? That would be like if I had to go to jail I'd end up fixing this dude's computer. Screw that, let me hang out in my cell and watch cable. Don't parade me around a golf course in my prison jumpsuit. A man has a right to dignity!
Somehow though, I can't muster try pity. Since, I can't wrap my head around pro golfer/jewel thief.
posted by cjorgensen at 10:21 AM on April 6, 2012
Having been to Catalina many, many times, I always wondered what the jail over there was even used for, if not just a 12-hour drunk tank. Good on the captain-- he will undoubtably be the toast of the town for his practicality and humanity.
If you're ever visiting Southern California, do take a day (or two) and take the fast boat over to Avalon. Stepping off the boat gets that fantastic, historic, relaxing atmosphere washing over you, and the garibaldi (state fish of California!) that swim in and around the rocks by the boat launch, visible even when you're standing up on the dock, are a great welcoming committee.
posted by mark242 at 10:36 AM on April 6, 2012
If you're ever visiting Southern California, do take a day (or two) and take the fast boat over to Avalon. Stepping off the boat gets that fantastic, historic, relaxing atmosphere washing over you, and the garibaldi (state fish of California!) that swim in and around the rocks by the boat launch, visible even when you're standing up on the dock, are a great welcoming committee.
posted by mark242 at 10:36 AM on April 6, 2012
I can't wrap my head around pro golfer/jewel thief.
I know it seems like a weird combination, but you multiclass like that and you end up with this amazing set of bonuses to all your saving throws.
posted by Tomorrowful at 10:44 AM on April 6, 2012 [10 favorites]
I know it seems like a weird combination, but you multiclass like that and you end up with this amazing set of bonuses to all your saving throws.
posted by Tomorrowful at 10:44 AM on April 6, 2012 [10 favorites]
..."islandness" (for lack of a better word)...
I dunno, "insularity" seems like a pretty good word.
posted by The Tensor at 12:35 PM on April 6, 2012
I dunno, "insularity" seems like a pretty good word.
posted by The Tensor at 12:35 PM on April 6, 2012
I can't wrap my head around pro golfer/jewel thief
I like it - it keeps all the rapacious banditry of the 1% contained to TARGETING the 1%. We need more of those.
posted by FatherDagon at 5:39 PM on April 6, 2012
I like it - it keeps all the rapacious banditry of the 1% contained to TARGETING the 1%. We need more of those.
posted by FatherDagon at 5:39 PM on April 6, 2012
Yeah, I find it hard to be upset in the least about this.
posted by wierdo at 10:25 PM on April 6, 2012
posted by wierdo at 10:25 PM on April 6, 2012
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