Error Rim Indian Head Penny

I think the constant tapping sound of a spoon on a coin would eventually get you a trip to the infirmary in a prison!! Although like was mentioned in a previous post there are no more metal flatware in prisons. And if a spoon was found in a cell it would be contraband and you would probably end up in
disciplinary segregation!!

 

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@Markus1959 I'm not really a HS dropout. I just wanted to make a point.

 

I know.

 

That was easily figured out - my wife's son is a dropout and he's so stupid he only knows how to steal and pawn a computer - NOT use one!!

 

Had to delete ten minutes of "Here we go again..."

 

Retired, thank God. Defending persons accused of a crime who are actually guilty can take a toll. Defending a person accused who is not guilty, however, takes a much harder toll. If i lose and he/she goes to prison, JJ&M, is that hard to handle. I had to do that several times until I appealed and had the case reversed with instructions to dismiss or to give the accused a new trial. Also hard to handle were the cases where I knew the cops had framed my client by "finding" a substance illegal in a pocket, car or house. I represented more clients at one point who had been busted thru illegal means or had evidence planted or where the cops had skimmed half the illegal substance, particularly coke, and the money for themselves. i informed the prosecutor this was happening, both framing and skimming, and after years of litigation in federal court many of these clients were released and the cops who had done it--there were four or five in the drug unit then who practiced this form of 'justice'--were themselves prosecuted and sent to federal country clubs. am i an attorney? hell yes. you're reading proof.

 

i doubt it would not have been mentioned because part of my rep as an attorney included that i would take certain coins as payment rather than money. and as i read the post, or read yours, the writer did not specify plastic versus metal. at some federal country clubs, some prisoners are allowed regular utensils. i must have been thinking of them. but you are right about shanks. i've seen a carotid artery punctured by a plastic shank honed like a knife.

 

Really? No way! You use a lot of three letter words for a attorney. I would love to read some of your legal briefs.

 

Geez, I thought the only crooked cops were on TV.

Chris

 

This was also an indian head cent. No plastic utensils back then.

 

ever been to Ferguson, MO, just to start a list. in tulsa, a 'reserve' deputy shot a black man on the ground with his service weapon, a .45 S&W I believe, thinking it was his taser. he was only charged with negligent homicide, that carries 2-4 years, rather than first degree or second degree murder. i think second degree would have been correct, given that he exhibited a "disregard for human life." it carries ten years to life. of course, with his friendship to the sheriff, his age (over 70) and race (caucasian), the victim's record which was not much but enough, the prosecutor chose the homicide charge that would put him in prison but not for very long. due to this case, the sheriff had to resign and was indicted by a grand jury; there was concern among the african-american community as well as informed, other citizens regardless of race, and a man lost his life who should not have. there is definitely a double standard in the country based on wealth and position, the old have/have nots. and this is just the recent past. i have witnessed it for over 35 years.

 

Regarding "spooning", I had a high school student in class/lab who used to talk coins with me. I mentioned this practice to him and lamented that since clad coinage, I didn't think it would work anymore. A couple of weeks later he showed me a ring he had made from a clad quarter. Now instead of a spoon, he had used a hammer, but it really was an attractive ring.

 

three letter words? the...the...the...duh i do not know what to write in reply, except i didn't type my briefs: they were written by hand and a great secretary could read my writing. if you've read Henry James, you will notice that after "the Turn of the Screw" his style changed from rather short sentences to ones that were often 300 words long. He had written by hand thru that novel but arthritis made him have to hire someone to whom he could dictate the remainder of his ouevre. His works after that development in his health are long, completed, rather like James Joyce who followed him. so, apparently writing rather than typing can have a drastic effect on style, substance, and the other english devices that go into what a writer produces. I saw it in myself when I started typing rather than writing late in my professional life.

 

That's cause they don't have shows on TV about crooked Doctors, Mechanics, Pawn Shop owners, (oh wait, they do on that one,) Coin Dealers (damn, they have that one on TV also), never mind!

 

You've gotta be related to @usmc60 !

 

i am only related to people i know or to whom i want to be related.