Inmates Sue for $500 Million Over Dental Floss
It reads like a parody from the Onion. Yet this story is actually on the level:
A group of Westchester County Jail inmates are suing the county for $500 million, claiming in a federal lawsuit that the jail’s refusal to let them use dental floss has ruined their teeth.
In a 25-page lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Santiago Gomez, 26, the lead plaintiff in the suit who is being held on a gun charge, chides his jailors for violating the prisoners’ civil rights by “not allowing inmates access to dental floss while being aware that failure to use causes cavities.”
Eleven county inmates and their lawyers plan to divvy up the bootie if they hit the jackpot.
Westchester Deputy Correction Commissioner Justin Pruyne said he could not discuss details of the lawsuit, but noted that the jail is not required to provide dental floss to prisoners.
For good reason. Multiple strands of dental floss could easily be used to strangle guards. But courts are unlikely to give that higher priority than the urgent need to enrich lawyers at public expense in the name of their sociopathic clients’ “civil rights.”
On a tip from Wiggins.
OralB claims it takes only ONE strand to strangle.
Dental floss is also useful for cutting iron bars in half. MacGyver won’t go anywhere without his dental floss.
Okay, so inmates will now have all ties, shoelaces, belts and teeth removed.
I guess they haven’t heard of those Oral-B convenience flosses with the little plastic handles and about 1/2″ of floss per unit (looks like a tiny little coping saw…but I guess prisoners might tie them together to make a
garrote ….give them chewing gum,it works for me
9 out of 10 inmates say prison assassinations work best with mint dental floss.
Here is the result of having communist-controlled teachers unions running our education systems.
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I just put some dental floss in the place where I keep my guns and other weapons; I’m ready now!
Well, if some goofy, liberal judge can decide (and he did) that the tax-paying fools of this nation must pay for an inmates sex change operation, what the hell is a little dental floss?
Welcome to The United States of FUBAR!
It’s from New York. That figures.
Can civilians there still buy high-capacity dental floss with lengths over 10 inches? Why would anybody need that much assault floss if they aren’t planning on strangling someone else?
Santiago Gomez? Another of Obama’s “dreamers”? Just suing the States Americans won’t sue.
dan says:
September 25, 2012 at 6:33 am I guess they haven’t heard of those Oral-B convenience flosses with the little plastic handles and about 1/2″ of floss per unit (looks like a tiny little coping saw…but I guess prisoners might tie them together to make a
garrote ….give them chewing gum,it works for me
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Actually the inmates would melt the plastic handles together to make a shiv.
I’m sure their teeth were already “all jacked-up” when they got to prison anyway!!
Murderers and drug dealers don’t usually put dental hygiene as a number one priority.
If they need floss that badly, give them one of those “convenience flosses”, and then make them trade in the used one for a new one each day. If they “lose” it, they lose the privilege. Problem solved.
Put the plaintiffs in solitary until they change their mind. F*cking bastards.
Stop feeding them…they won’t have to floss food particles if they don’t eat.
Their teeth are ruined because of lack of floss, not the years of meth and crack use….no, it has to be not using floss.