PRISON BUSSES

[HEMI]

I live near a highway between 2 major prisons here in ca.The busses are easy
to spot.I let'm get along side and give the 1 fingered salute.The passengers all have fish for brains anyway.What do you guy's do?
SILVER BUICK,what do you do?

[RyanWalker]

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I wouldn't be flippin em off, perhaps one of them remembers your face ;)

[TheSilverBuick]

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Me? I'm the guy in the bus! Actually I'm not sure I've ever seen a prison bus. Seen some prisoners working on the side of the road, but don't give them any more or less attention than if they were anyone else. We do have a prison though just outside of town.....I wouldn't want to get too familiar to them though.

Interesting study once determined that most criminals locked up have an average or above average I.Q., (hard to tell I know, the smarter ones actually don't get caught that often), so Ryan's right, a few might remember ;) :P

[Scott Liggett]

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I live near a highway between 2 major prisons here in ca.The busses are easy
to spot.I let'm get along side and give the 1 fingered salute.The passengers all have fish for brains anyway.What do you guy's do?
SILVER BUICK,what do you do?

Lemme guess. Chowchilla.

[Monk]

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Interesting study once determined that most criminals locked up have an average or above average I.Q., (hard to tell I know, the smarter ones actually don't get caught that often), so Ryan's right, a few might remember ;) :P

There's only about one chromosome that separates an idiot and a genius.......a real thin line.........

[A/Fuel]

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i'd keep my head down and just keep going. i've delt with my irish curse long enough to know that i would regret it in about 30 seconds after doing it. someway, somehow.

[oldrustycars]

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We spot our prison buses easily too...it says "PRISON BUS. DO NOT APPROACH" on it. I just leave them alone. No sense annoying them further.

[Brian Lohnes]

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Quick story...

UMass bought 3 ex-INS buses from southern Texas when I was in college. Got to cruise one of them back. The drive sucked hard, bunch of blowouts, etc.

BUT

Rolling down the highway in a bus with bulletproof windows, huge ass steel grates mounted inside , hand cuff rails, and steel seats with "Immigration and Naturalization Service" slathered down the side sure garnered some looks.

The college used them as mass arrest vehicles. When I was there it was not uncommon for pretty large riots to break out after sporting events an stuff. Kids would set stuff on fire hurl junk out windows, and start fights. The campus police finally got serious and once the buses arrived, they would fly a helicopter over the scene swoop in and start arresting kids.

They filled those suckers a couple times when I was there.

Here are a group of the jack holes in action. This was when I happened to be a senior in 2002. Super bowl Sunday. These idiots were doing this and a handful of us were at the fleet garage after the game waiting to fix the shit they were bound to wreck on our normal transit buses. The armored units got some work done on this night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcZ0F8GQ8rQ

Brian

[Not A Duster]

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Here are a group of the jack holes in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcZ0F8GQ8rQ

*sigh*

What a waste of skin - all of 'em. >

Mebbe I'm olde, but I've never understood behavior like that - f*cking up other people's property for "fun...." > > >

Students yet. These are the leaders of our future. Says a lot about why we have the leadership crisis that we do.

Idiots. >

Just makes my blood boil every time I see shit like that. > >

[JRoberts]

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I wonder how many possible future employers watched this video. :


I cannot see the reason to antagonize the people on a prison bus any further. They obviously are being punished. I don't even look at the prisoners when there is a chain gang on the side of the road. No need IMHO.

[Brian Lohnes]

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Never saw a chain gang until the first time we drove to florida on vacation.

Dad says, "Hey, look at that!"

As a 10 year old kid or so, I thought it was only something they did in the movies. We don't have 'em, in the classical sense (guy with shotgun standing guard) up here.

Brian

[Weldangrind]

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I was in a fed max pen yesterday to work on a piece of equipment. What an ordeal. I had to have an itemized list of my 75lb toolbox, surrender my licence and cell phone, go through an x-ray scanner and be escorted at all times. What's worse is that I was working in the psych ward; nothing but medicated zombies eyeballing me. We had to walk through the prison yard to get to the building with the equipment, and it turns out that my escort was just a maintenance worker; not even packin' heat.

It's fair to say that I made no eye contact, let alone the one finger salute.

[shaun callaway]

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i'd keep my head down and just keep going. i've delt with my irish curse long enough to know that i would regret it in about 30 seconds after doing it. someway, somehow.

x2

[BangShiftChad]

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I used to see prison buses sometimes while doing the drive from San Jose to San Luis Obispo, but never paid much attention to them. I would love to drive one though.

Daphne used to work in a prison. Seriously. And she knew mobsters that were "staying" there.

[Brian Lohnes]

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I used to see prison buses sometimes while doing the drive from San Jose to San Luis Obispo, but never paid much attention to them. I would love to drive one though.

Not from Texas to Massachusetts governed at 60. The fun factor fades kinda quick. The added bonus was that they smelled like we werre smuggling rotting bodies.

When I was working as an Operations manager for a large bottled water company several years ago, a couple guys escaped from jail by climbing into the bays of a delivery truck that was being unloaded at the prison.

The driver got to his next stop, a door flew open and a guy started running for it. Driver called the cops and they nabbed him a couple hours later.

Strange but true.

Brian