Killer Thriller
So, in my maturity (ha) I am gaining an appreciation of NPR programing, especially the Sunday morning piece Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me. Due to an odd set of circumstances I was able to listen in this past Sunday while driving to New Orleans with two div school friends. (It was my first time in the city and I got to meet up with Sarge.)Anyway, the topic of this week's 'Bluff the Listener' was: "Everybody in the whole cell block, was dancing to the jail house rock." Three stories about prison reforms boosting inmate morale. (nice play on the anniversary of Elvis' death.)
All three options, as always were ridiculous, but without question the strangest one was true. Over 1,000 of inmates in a Filipino prison have been working to recreate Micheal Jackson's music video Thriller. And it turns out, they copy the dance moves surprisingly well. And apparently that's only practice.
According to the NPR reporting fights, gang activity, and extortion have gone down. This begs a number of questions, how long have they been practicing? Are they forced to do so? And how do you say to a bunch of imprisoned men, "hey, you know what would be fun...if we imitated a man who should be in jail as he sings about otherworldly beings!"?
posted by skirt @ 12:57 AM
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my guess was it went a little something like this:
warden: "Do this or I kill you."
prisoner: "okay."
apparently they have done a whole series of these thing, Queen, the Black Eyed Peas, some other stuff that I don't recognize
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