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| Subject: Statist idiots: Argentina's Prisoners walk past dummy guard Fri Jul 23, 2010 4:20 am | |
| IT WAS, in hindsight, not the shrewdest budget cut. A jail in Argentina manned a watchtower with a dummy - a football with a guard's cap - and hoped prisoners would sense the vigilance.
The synthetic sentinel did not demand a salary, did not grumble about conditions and did not protest its nickname: Wilson, after the volleyball which kept Tom Hanks company in the film Cast Away.
The only flaw in the innovation was that Wilson did not demur when two convicted armed robbers escaped by merging into a crowd of departing visitors last Saturday.
''For an obvious strategic reason we could not say it before, but now the news is out, I admit that we have a type of mannequin,'' said Daniel Verges, director of the penitentiary service.
Underfunding meant just two of the jail's 15 towers had guards. Wilson was put in a third tower to boost the sense of scrutiny.
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