Could you spend 30 days in a completely dark room? I know many Metalbond readers would jump at the chance, even without a cash payoff at the end!
According to this article, two poker players placed a bet about this in real life!
Thanks to Metalbond reader Phil for passing this along. He says it wasn’t widely reported in the U.S., outside of the poker player media.
Somebody absolutely MUST write a story based on this for the Prison Library!
In San Francisco, of course, and it’s a steal at a mere $1.88 million!
“The property is owned by a Japanese businessman who had fun creating Alcatraz-themed accommodations for Japanese tourists,” says this article.
Zillow listing here.
Check out what happened to Henry Owens in the Red Sox dugout! This is from a few years back. Toward the end of the four-minute video, the announcer can be heard saying, “Not the first guy to be taped to that pole and probably not the last.”
If you are going to prison, watch and learn:
Many MORE videos from this hot guy — who goes by “Lockdown 23 and 1” — are available on his YouTube channel, available here
Houdini died on this day today (Halloween, Oct. 31) back in 1926, in Detroit, and this afternoon (Halloween day, 2018) I paid a visit to his gravesite in Queens, New York.
Houdini rests amongst his relatives in an elaborate family plot at Machpelah Cemetery in Glendale. From Manhattan, it was an hour-long trip on the subway and then a 20-minute hike.
As a tribute to Houdini, I left a pair of police-issue Smith and Wesson Model 100-1 handcuffs that I had specially engraved with his name. I made sure to double-lock the cuffs before leaving them.
I took pictures of these restraints during a recent visit to the museum across the street from Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. These are rigid handcuffs and ankle shackles used on Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was the doctor who treated the fugitive John Wilkes Booth.
And here is a reproduction of the type of canvas hood they used on the conspirators in the Lincoln assassination — including Lewis Powell.
I made a visit to this museum while on a business trip recently. I was with a female co-worker, who no doubt was wondering why I was so interested in these particular items.
To learn a bit more about these types of historical restraints, see this previous posting.
