tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post4284721461604060566..comments2024-03-28T07:16:39.621+00:00Comments on Lallands Peat Worrier: Scots jails stuffed...Lallands Peat Worrierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18276270498204697708noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-2492410260952641662009-12-07T12:09:55.610+00:002009-12-07T12:09:55.610+00:00Dear Rab,
Somehow, even with prison yoga lessons,...Dear Rab,<br /><br />Somehow, even with prison yoga lessons, I'd be impressed if any of the souls locked away therein managed the achieve the "octopus" poise and slither through yon 9" escape-way. <br /><br />Your second point is all the more vital to know. Who knows, war, catastrophe - personal imprisonment - some day I might find myself in Chokey, making a bid for freedom. Confidently I'd espy the smooth metallic belly of the manhole cover - thrust my noggin upwards, confident in success - only to snap my little spine and tumble ragdoll-like into the gushing effluvium below.<br /><br />With this intelligence, I now see that much more planning will be needed, and muscular cronies to boot...<br /><br />Yours, in anticipation of future liberty,<br />LPWLallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-21570237152328636942009-12-06T14:43:07.216+00:002009-12-06T14:43:07.216+00:00Hi Lallands,
This is way off topic, I hope you do...Hi Lallands,<br /><br />This is way off topic, I hope you don't mind. As a young engineer in the 1970's I was engaged in the construction of the sewers for the new male prison at Shotts, being built to accommodate the even then burgeoning prison population. (See there is a tenuous link of sorts.)<br /><br />I was surprised that the design of the system did not seem to contain any anti-escape measures to prevent prisoners wading waist deep through the effluvium to freedom, as seen so many times in the cinema and TV. However as the main sewer istelf was only 9" in diameter these might not have proved necessary.<br /><br />Incidentally, I have to laugh every time somebody escaping through a sewerage system is shown lifting a manhole cover in a road to peer out from underneath, usually supporting the weight of the cover on their head. These things weigh several hundredweight! On the very odd occasion I found myself needing to raise one (from the surface I should add) an assistant would hit it repeatedly with a 10 lb. sledgehammer to break the rust and grit sealing it in place and make it "dance" before the pair of us could attempt to lift it. Even then it was a sruggle. Handling manhole covers was at that time the biggest single source of industrial injury among operatives in my Local Authority Sewerage Department. (It is mechanised to some degree now.)<br /><br />Hope this adds some enlightment to the subject.<br /><br />Regards,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com