There was a guy who had a chunk of his ear bitten off in a row on the landing. His new nickname was "18 months". I had to ask, why?
"Because he has an ear-and-a-half"!
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- Previously known as "one of Britain's best known prisoners...he constantly questions authority and exposes the futility of the system" The Times, Ben was finally released from prison after 32 years in August 2012. Pleading guilty to the murder of a friend when he was 14 years old, he renounced violence and fought for the recognition of the inherent dignity of all human beings. As a result of speaking truth to power, he served far longer than the recommended 10 years, leading Education Secretary Michael Gove to argue that he had "been punished excessively for a crime committed as a child". One of the more intellectual of prisoner-campaigners, Ben chose to educate himself from schoolboy level to having both undergraduate and post graduate degrees. He is currently one of very few prisoners in Britain ever to attempt a Doctorate. Ben's speciality is non-violent action and the Human Needs Theory. Now on Life Licence, He is forging a career as a CJ policy consultant, writer and - as ever - campaigner.
That is gross Ben. Its also triggered lots of ear bitten-off-in-fight examples that I know of.
ReplyDeleteThe worst one must be when an ex friend of mine described one of his many fights, it involved him and someone who was training and sparring in a ring. My ex took exception to the fact that this man was using what he was being taught in the ring and in a gym on the streets and in the pubs, so they got into a fight ... During the fight, my ex bit part of this mans ear off, chewed and swallowed it! OMG I'm gonna be sick!
That is a true story, and my ex never got done for it. In those days (well over twenty years ago) it was classed as wrong for someone to be ring fighting with street boys apparently.
I have vague recollections of it.
Its such light hearted humor, much better than the dark humor that goes around in the world at large. In a free world, we let Nature play jokes on us. In the prison, atleast we are free to joke on each other.
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