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In our recent interview with Boxcar182 we investigated the mind-set of Torn's most prolific jail-breaker, yet in the weeks since our article was published there seems to have been no progress made in curtailing the embarrassing security lapses which continue to blight our city's penitentiary. The jail is a block away from City Hall where the decision makers eat their lunches, yet still they rest on their overpaid fat-saturated laurels, making no effort to address the concerns raised in this paper.
But their inaction has not gone unnoticed. Torn's forums are awash with complaints at how simple jail-breaking has become. A discussion led by local citizen Wollongong - one of the city's original 20,000 inhabitants - suggested that Torn City Jail is not the deterrent it once was, commenting:
"When we just started to take over this town, when there were actually still respectable citizens around, being put to jail really was a pain in the ass. You sometimes had to sit there, do nothing. For hours, even."
Fellow citizen Rosie added that she "can't remember the last time I saw more than 1 page of players in jail" yet later remarked that "it would be a bad idea to up the difficulty of busts, they are hard enough already for lower levels."
It should be noted that Wollongong himself is responsible for 1408 breakouts in his lifetime, and Rosie has removed 19336 citizens from Torn City Jail at the time of writing - so both have contributed significantly to the undermining of our fair city's justice system. However, some members of Torn feel that these criminal enablers are not the real cause for our low prison population after all.
Butters, a cruise line employee and leader of the London faction, was quoted as saying "Busting is actually harder than it used to be" going on to comment that the current situation can be traced back to "high demand for busts" and "a lot more players (especially newer ones) being more educated about crime experience progression."
When one aspect of society fails it can be very easy to blame the individuals at fault, but far harder to trace back the root cause of our prison system's problems. Butters makes an excellent point regarding new citizens and their increased education in criminality - so should Torn College become the real focus of our ire? After all, many of its law courses are tailored towards escaping justice, and they should be well aware that the lessons learnt on campus are eventually going to be put into practice.
But perhaps we're being too soft on the jail; perhaps we are making excuses for a system which is quite simply too easy to exploit. Whereas in the past those looking to extract a prisoner had to expend considerable energy to do so, today all it requires is a little nerve and less than a minute of your time. In order to test the fallibility of Torn City Jail this reporter spent five minutes watching the comings and goings there on Friday the 8th of July, and what he found will shock you.
13:38pm - Current inmates are Troy, Yanforcer, Timebomb and Tauro. They all look rather shifty, and Tauro in particular keeps staring at my crotch. I cross my legs and try to avoid eye contact.
13:39pm - Yanforcer is the only inmate remaining of the original group, with three prisoners busted less than a minute after arrival. He is now joined by Siguror who was caught stealing a firebird.
13:40pm - Yanforcer is freed, and frankly I'm glad to see the back of him after what he just coughed up. Siguror is also on his way out, his mother having turned up to collect him in the very same firebird he was convicted of stealing. This city has no shame.
13.41pm - Breathless' name proves rather apt as having been brought in for suspicious behaviour she was broken out within 30 seconds. Is this a record? Knowing this place...probably not.
13:42pm - Redbull- is booked for trespassing and serves a commendable 3 minutes of his 10 hour 38 minute sentence, although the majority of this can be attributed to him falling asleep midway.
13:43pm - Qlippoth is jailed for pickpocketing a businessman, and I suddenly find myself feeling sorry for this newbie citizen. As someone with very little experience of the city myself I make the mistake of busting him.
The adrenaline I feel upon releasing Qlippoth from the confines of his jail cell makes me realise why this devious criminal act is so popular. I required no gratitude from this citizen, and even the humongous wad of spittle he flung in my general direction did not detract from the elation I felt upon freeing him. Yet afterwards all I felt was regret, having contributed directly to the very problem I was attempting to expose.
Perhaps then we ask too much of the people of Torn when we demand they respect the law. This reporter once donated $30 to a charity for orphaned huskies in Albania, yet even I fell afoul of the temptation to bust, so how can those with no moral compass even hope to know the difference between right and wrong? Maybe this decision should be taken out of the citizens' hands, maybe it is time for the authorities to step in and make a change to our city's legal system.
Or perhaps the citizenry of this city turn up to Torn College and set fire to their Law Department - what do you think?
But their inaction has not gone unnoticed. Torn's forums are awash with complaints at how simple jail-breaking has become. A discussion led by local citizen Wollongong - one of the city's original 20,000 inhabitants - suggested that Torn City Jail is not the deterrent it once was, commenting:
"When we just started to take over this town, when there were actually still respectable citizens around, being put to jail really was a pain in the ass. You sometimes had to sit there, do nothing. For hours, even."
Fellow citizen Rosie added that she "can't remember the last time I saw more than 1 page of players in jail" yet later remarked that "it would be a bad idea to up the difficulty of busts, they are hard enough already for lower levels."
It should be noted that Wollongong himself is responsible for 1408 breakouts in his lifetime, and Rosie has removed 19336 citizens from Torn City Jail at the time of writing - so both have contributed significantly to the undermining of our fair city's justice system. However, some members of Torn feel that these criminal enablers are not the real cause for our low prison population after all.
Butters, a cruise line employee and leader of the London faction, was quoted as saying "Busting is actually harder than it used to be" going on to comment that the current situation can be traced back to "high demand for busts" and "a lot more players (especially newer ones) being more educated about crime experience progression."
When one aspect of society fails it can be very easy to blame the individuals at fault, but far harder to trace back the root cause of our prison system's problems. Butters makes an excellent point regarding new citizens and their increased education in criminality - so should Torn College become the real focus of our ire? After all, many of its law courses are tailored towards escaping justice, and they should be well aware that the lessons learnt on campus are eventually going to be put into practice.
But perhaps we're being too soft on the jail; perhaps we are making excuses for a system which is quite simply too easy to exploit. Whereas in the past those looking to extract a prisoner had to expend considerable energy to do so, today all it requires is a little nerve and less than a minute of your time. In order to test the fallibility of Torn City Jail this reporter spent five minutes watching the comings and goings there on Friday the 8th of July, and what he found will shock you.
13:38pm - Current inmates are Troy, Yanforcer, Timebomb and Tauro. They all look rather shifty, and Tauro in particular keeps staring at my crotch. I cross my legs and try to avoid eye contact.
13:39pm - Yanforcer is the only inmate remaining of the original group, with three prisoners busted less than a minute after arrival. He is now joined by Siguror who was caught stealing a firebird.
13:40pm - Yanforcer is freed, and frankly I'm glad to see the back of him after what he just coughed up. Siguror is also on his way out, his mother having turned up to collect him in the very same firebird he was convicted of stealing. This city has no shame.
13.41pm - Breathless' name proves rather apt as having been brought in for suspicious behaviour she was broken out within 30 seconds. Is this a record? Knowing this place...probably not.
13:42pm - Redbull- is booked for trespassing and serves a commendable 3 minutes of his 10 hour 38 minute sentence, although the majority of this can be attributed to him falling asleep midway.
13:43pm - Qlippoth is jailed for pickpocketing a businessman, and I suddenly find myself feeling sorry for this newbie citizen. As someone with very little experience of the city myself I make the mistake of busting him.
The adrenaline I feel upon releasing Qlippoth from the confines of his jail cell makes me realise why this devious criminal act is so popular. I required no gratitude from this citizen, and even the humongous wad of spittle he flung in my general direction did not detract from the elation I felt upon freeing him. Yet afterwards all I felt was regret, having contributed directly to the very problem I was attempting to expose.
Perhaps then we ask too much of the people of Torn when we demand they respect the law. This reporter once donated $30 to a charity for orphaned huskies in Albania, yet even I fell afoul of the temptation to bust, so how can those with no moral compass even hope to know the difference between right and wrong? Maybe this decision should be taken out of the citizens' hands, maybe it is time for the authorities to step in and make a change to our city's legal system.
Or perhaps the citizenry of this city turn up to Torn College and set fire to their Law Department - what do you think?
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