Jackass jailed

By Jennifer J. Foster

Published: May 22, 2008

... No, not Johnny Knoxville (although his show was the most appropriately titled program ever to appear on television).

(Incidentally, Knoxville is another good example of a person who made me reconsider, then withdraw, my support for the idea of mandatory voting. But I digress.)

You’ve heard the old saying that truth is stranger than fiction?

It’s true.

Apparently, since they don’t seem to be able to deal with the drug cartels taking over whole sections of the country and brazenly telling police, “Join us or die,“ Mexican officials have taken to jailing animals who misbehave.

Yes, animals.

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