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Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by SmeggySmeg, Dec 17, 2003.

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  1. SmeggySmeg

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    Very Weird very weird Texas

    State prison agency pulls plug on last-meal Web site
    Public appetite for data superseded by concerns about taste, officials say

    By DIANE JENNINGS / The Dallas Morning News

    In the end – the very end – it comes down to a matter of taste.

    After years of posting the last meals of condemned inmates for public perusal, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has deleted that information from its Web site.

    The elimination of the popular page was part of a redesign to be launched this week, said department spokeswoman Michelle Lyons, but the decision to remove the information was also partly in response to objections.

    "We had gotten some complaints from people who thought it was in poor taste," Ms. Lyons said.

    The decision by the department's "executive administration" makes life difficult for Ms. Lyons, who fields media requests, because questions about prisoners' last meals are common.

    "The reason we had it on the Web site to begin with was because that was the No. 1 inquiry from the public," she said. "So really, we can't win."

    for those that didn't info on the menus spawned the cult website

    http://www.deadmaneating.com/
     
  2. Oski2005

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    I always wondered about the people who seemed to have that page saved in the favorites folder. I guess everyone has a morbid curiousity about something.
     
  3. SmeggySmeg

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    or they are crazy freaks

    or they are wondering what food they will get ;)
     
  4. Dr of Dunk

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    Hey, I'm no freak. I posted that page a few times on here. :(

    ... of course I didn't have it bookmarked or anything
     
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    Maybe people were just looking for ideas for dinner. I am positive that a dead man could make up his mind before my wife.
     
  6. SmeggySmeg

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    ROFLMAO
     
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    Candidates last meal before they lose might be more interesting...



    Ooops, not D&D. :D
     
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    I think it is quite interesting that quite a few of them chose, when they could have chose lobster or steak......pizza! That is too much.
     
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    I think many of them had no idea what the hell steak or lobster was!:eek:
     
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    WEAK! That was a great website.

    I think the beef stew my wife burned last night could have been a last meal and be used to kill a prisoner at the same time...
     
  11. Austin70

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    I also like to read their last words, I like the ones that go down cussing and fighting.
     
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    What I find depressing is even if they get to choose the menu, the food probably still sucks. They should have the Ritz-Carlton or someone cater the last meals.
     
  13. PieEatinFattie

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    Some of these guy's should of been starved to death. Besides, they already spent enough tax dollars going through the whole appeal process. I wouldn't want my tax dollars going to a five star meal for a degenerate that, after an exhaustive process, has been found not worthy to be in our presence anymore.
     
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    Didn't they make an episode of King of the Hill out of this?
     
  15. JuanValdez

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    PEF, I think you're missing the point of the last meal then. Yes, we've deemed them unfit to continue to live among us, but the last meal is a mercy we customarily extend to the condemned to try to make his last moments somewhat more enjoyable. I just find it a bit sad that an otherwise chivalric gesture can be spoiled by bad cooking. It's like letting a condemned man have sex one last time, and he gets to choose between Kathy Bates and Janet Reno for a partner. That's not much of a mercy.
     
  16. SmeggySmeg

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    have heard this, haven't seen it myself, got get around to getting all the King of the Hill on dvd on ebay
     
  17. Austin70

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    I remember them doing one on last meals.
     

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