Crime Scene, the trade magazine for the legally challenged community, has conducted a survey that shows that criminals are being forced to take second jobs to make ends meet.
The hard up hoods are being forced into a surprising variety of positions, with banking, journalism, high court judging, politics and public service among the occupations taken. One was even a heroic fireman in his spare time.
'It's a damning indictment of this government that my members' health and safety is being jeopardised,' said union boss Bob Crowbar, secretary of the General and Municipal Bangdoers Union.
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Criminals now forced to moonlight as firemen, reports trade mag Crime Scene
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offlineMemberPosted 2 years ago # -
There was something similar to Crime Scene suggested by PK Munroe in The Thursday Night Letters (2007, New Holland Publishers - see also http://www.thursdaynightideas.com ).
He had a working title of Where The Money Is and wrote to the presidents of several magazine publishers (Conde Nast etc) as well as to the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police as he felt that the boys in blue would also find the mag useful to "get inside the criminal mind", and that if the police also wrote to publishers, the title would stand a greater chance of getting the publishers' interest.
Munroe's project was more about trying to persuade serious people to listen to bizarre ideas, rather than to create the mag himself.
Sadly, PK Munroe had to shelve the idea, but we could breathe life into his dream.
He suggested:-
- Who's In, Who's Out (and who's on the run)
- Chip & Pin : Is the game finally up for card fraud?
- Best Jail, Worst Jail
- Classic Cons and Swindles
- 'On The Fence' (Small Ads, Goods for sale etc)etc...
He also wrote to BA about an idea for a subsidiary called 'Atheist Airlines', where passengers had to denounce God/Allah/Yahweh etc before boarding the plane, in ways so disgusting and blasphemous, that would be unacceptable to any serious believer, thereby making the planes safe from religious zealots, who would be unable to get past those measures. Willie Walsh did not reply.
But I digress...
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