When you need a job doing, and money is tight, getting prisoners to do the job might seem, therefore, like a bright idea
However, the red faces amongst Vermont prison and police personnel and the sniggers on the faces of the prisoners illustrate that this is not always the case !
Some folk are just not cut out for a life of crime
They just don’t possess the necessary motor skills, eye-hand co-ordination, and coolness under pressure to become a successful career criminal
Take the guy captured in this CCTV footage. All he had to do, while his mates were inside robbing a Bank in Parana, Brazil, was to stand at the door and prevent anyone coming into the bank while the robbery was in progress.
Simple enough task one would have thought. Instead, this plonker accidentally shot himself in the foot and was arrested by the police later when he went to a hospital for treatment
Just to give you an idea of the gap that separates the small number of very rich folk in the USA and the much larger number of americans forced to make do on not very much money at all, “Slate.com” has a nifty wee income calculator where you can find out how long Mitt Romney would need to work to earn as much as you do in a year. Or, alternatively, how long you would need to work, at your current level of pay, before your earnings match what Romney makes in a year