Retch The Grate ([info]retch) wrote,
@ 2008-10-03 11:59:00
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"It's the coin of the realm," says Mark Bailey, who paid Mr. Levine in fish. Mr. Bailey was serving a two-year tax-fraud sentence in connection with a chain of strip clubs he owned. Mr. Levine was serving a nine-year term for drug dealing. Mr. Levine says he used his macks to get his beard trimmed, his clothes pressed and his shoes shined by other prisoners. "A haircut is two macks," he says, as an expected tip for inmates who work in the prison barber shop.

currencies find a way. In Diablo it was the Star of Jordan, in prison, foil packets of mackerel...



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[info]lbmango
2008-10-03 07:03 pm UTC (link)
Reminds me of a joke my dad used to tell... This sort of thing, except eventually someone eats the mackerel and gets sick. Everyone looks at him like he's crazy: "That mackerel wasn't for eating, it was for TRADING"

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[info]erf_
2008-10-04 12:06 am UTC (link)
Thank goodness the bailout bill passed, or we'd all be doing stuff like this.

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[info]lbmango
2008-10-04 03:00 am UTC (link)
We may yet be... we may yet.

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