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Sun, 02 May 04 04:15:34 +0100
Hiya Folks...
Today we consider the problem of rising crime, and a solution that could
only have been proposed in America...
Wishes & Dreams...
- ANDREA
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AN ALL-AMERICAN SOLUTION TO CRIME
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The Reverend George W. Durham, of the Quindaro Methodist Church of
Kansas City, is credited with the following quote on how to stop crime
in Kansas City, in the Kansas City Journal, in 1925:
"When anyone is held up he shall immediately telephone the details to a
telephone operator. She will plug in every phone in the city and relate
the details of the holdup. Near every telephone a shotgun is to be kept
hanging on the wall. When the story of the holdup is spread through the
phones every citizen will seize his shotgun and rush to the street.
Whistles will blow and at this signal all traffic, including
pedestrians, will halt. Anyone besides law officers who moves will be
shot."
Ahhhh... how he must have loved living in a small town, where monastic
dictates were more attainable than in the sin-pits of New York and
Boston... where his notions might actually get him locked up in the
funny farm.
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