Some people can't take a good joke

[Blake]

Guard fired after locking new hire in with inmate AP

HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. -A western Pennsylvania county prison guard has been fired over a prank in which a new guard was locked in a cell with an inmate involved in a police shootout. Blair County officials didn't release the guards' names, but confirmed the incident after The Altoona Mirror received an anonymous report.

The report said the new guard was locked with the inmate for 20 minutes by a guard who wanted to see what the new hire was made of.

The inmate, accused of shooting at Altoona police in November, filed a complaint with the NAACP.

But Blair County Commissioner Terry Tomassetti said the new hire was the target, not the inmate.

Tomassetti says it was "just picking on a new employee," but still serious, and officials don't want it to happen again.

http://news.aol.com/article/guard-fi...hire-in/396491

[to21]

While I don't have a REAL problem with this.

I can see why others do.

[BacktoBasics]

I would have a problem with this.

[mrsmaalox]

It's kind of a lame joke. The good ones are played in the morgue.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

[Blake]

It's kind of a lame joke. The good ones are played in the morgue.

yeah, near the incinerator where the bodies are cremated

[Spur-Addict]

What if the inmate was 6'8 350 lbs? All the jokes are gone then.

[Blake]

What if the inmate was 6'8 350 lbs? All the jokes are gone then.

There aren't any jokes to begin with, regardless of who else is in the cell.

It's a bunch of idiots in some prison out in the sticks focking around.

[mrsmaalox]

But imagine if it was like in Mayberry, and the new guy was like Barney Fife.....it could have been pretty darn funny!!

[Spur-Addict]

There aren't any jokes to begin with, regardless of who else is in the cell.

It's a bunch of idiots in some prison out in the sticks focking around.

Well there is a joke between the guards that have been there longer. It just didn't apply to the new guard. I'm just saying the guards wouldn't have found it funny if he had gotten hurt right there on the spot (They may have still, but it decreases the chances).

Even though people lost jobs, they probably still look back on it, and other instances like this, as funny. Consequences of physical harm didn't really factor in to the equation because as you said, they're idiots.

[peewee's lovechild]

It would've been funny if the inmate was a midget.


Is there an NAACP type of organization for midgets?

[SpursStalker]

I'm not seeing where this is funny?

[NFO]

I'm not seeing where this is funny?

The le of the thread is some people can't take a good joke

[Brutalis]

Yeah that's not funny to me. It would be fun to joke around about but to actually do it? Ehh..

Makes me wonder if dude voluntarily went in the cell? I don't think the other guard deserves to get fired for it, maybe fined and reprimanded/suspended. To me it's just one of those stupid is as stupid does things.

[SpursStalker]

The le of the thread is some people can't take a good joke

I can ing read

[peewee's lovechild]

I can ing read

Who's "read"?

[NFO]

I can ing read

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

[SpursStalker]

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

off Nate

[NFO]

And yet we are back to the le of the thread.

[MiamiHeat]

so what happens if the inmate went ballistic and killed the guard?

do the "pranksters" get charged with manslaughter or accessory/conspiracy to murder?

[AlamoSpursFan]

Who's "read"?

This would have been funny if she'd said "I can read".

Fail.

[Spur-Addict]