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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Charlie on May 10, 2005, 04:53:52 AM
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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Officials bought 15 pizzas to secure the release of a guard who had been held for 42 hours by inmates at an Australian top-security prison, police said Monday.
Twenty prisoners were involved in the standoff, which began Saturday when inmates occupied part of Risdon Prison on the southern island state of Tasmania, complaining about conditions in the aging institution and taking guard Ken Hannah hostage.
Hannah finally was released late Sunday night after authorities caved in to demands for pizza.
"The final sticking point with the inmates was that they were requiring pizzas to be delivered," senior prisons official Graeme Barber said.
"We had held off in relation to that -- we obviously wanted the release of our staff member," he added. "Our staff member was negotiated out by the delivery of 15 pizzas."
The last prisoner involved in the siege gave himself up Monday. No one was injured.
The siege followed months of violence and unrest at Risdon, which holds one of Australia's most notorious convicts, Martin Bryant, who went on a shooting rampage at Tasmania's Port Arthur historic penal settlement in 1996, killing 35 people.
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CB
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Grave mistake, next time they'll be wanting burritos!!
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What kind of pizza?
It matters!
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Heh. I love that.
"Okay, we'll give you 15-minute longer lunch breaks, we'll relandscape the yard, and we'll let your leaders off with only two weeks in solitary, but we're not budging on the stack of pizzas!"
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Funniest story I heard all week.:lol
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Originally posted by Nilsen
What kind of pizza?
It matters!
Probably ones with files baked into the crust! :)
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Or plastic peperoni explosives topping.
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I wonder if it matter if it wee Pizza Hut or Dominios!!!!!!
Did they want a garlic bread with that too??
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They should'a sent them Anchovies
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What no coke to wash it all down with? Oh those cops are good. very sneaky. Give them all that pizza and no soda to wash it down. it was only a matter of time. Reminds me of the old hostage for crackers situation back in '73.
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come to think about it, these guys got ripped off!!!
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LOL raider, that hit my funny bone somehow.
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Maybe they were those $50 Norweigan pizzas. That's alot of dough :aok
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Ugh..
send in burritos..
close down the water and electricity to the bathrooms...
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Terrorists surrender.
Deadly negotiation tactic..!
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What.. none of the cops left a dookie on the pie?
"hey.. I didn't order this with sausage.."
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Hannah finally was released late Sunday night after authorities caved in to demands for pizza.
"We had held off in relation to that -- we obviously wanted the release of our staff member," he added. "Our staff member was negotiated out by the delivery of 15 pizzas."
bet Mr. Hannah is pissed off. "you bastages coulda gave em a pizza and Ida gotten out quicker, and then I wouldnt have to sit on this inflatable donut for the next two weeks.":mad: :mad: :mad: