when I was young I met someone who did a year for stealing a car ( 1980 ). He really didn’t want to go back inside because Prison is a frightening place.
Much later I bought some Vivitar SLR lenses off a Prison guard who wanted to upgrade to video. He’d been a marine and he was the toughest guy I’ve met.
Why do criminals keep on being sent back? I don’t know.
There is a lot of waste in our society. We should rehabilitate them and give them jobs as gardeners.
A Pettman, Cambs
It must have taken a great deal of courage for you to speak out on these important issues but please don’t leave the story half-finished! I’m sure I speak for all HYS readers when I say that we want to know more about this very tough marine.
Update: I wish I’d thought of this response (from Steve) “Lenses? Paedo.”
Aren’t they the type of lenses that paedofiddliers use to see very small children?
This comment reads like a child’s picture book, and I fucking love it.
I wonder if the marine of which he speaks is the one referred to in the song “Camouflage” by Stan Ridgeway?
DOG TAGS. DOG TAGS. DOG TAGS. DOG TAGS.
Yeah so Cambridgeshire will be like the good old days again. Nicely patterned clean-cut lawns and, oh look, there’s a couple of negros pruning the rosebushes.
But hold on, they’ll not have time to return to the urban slums in the evening and be back on time in the morning. Perhaps they can live in Father’s old shed at the foot of the South Field. And once more Britain shall be Great with every man in his place.