Adventures of HG at NRTI

So there was plenty more stories during today's class. Since I can't really remember any of them by the end of the day, I decided to write a few down. :) The first story our instructor told today from back in his patrolling days (as if he doesn't still patrol) was about the Vietnam Vets that have flash backs. It's actually quite sad and I wish there was more we could do for our vets these days. The health care sucks, half of them have no money and live on the street, and this is how we repay them. I'll leave out the gruesome stuff, but one vet apparently had a flash back and had to be coaxed of the roof of his house. Unfortunately he thought he was on a hill or something still fighting the war. Can you imagine losing your mind like that? One minute you're perfectly sane, sitting in your living room watching TV and eating popcorn and the next thing you know something triggers a memory and your up on your roof fighting in the war again. Scary. And sad, very sad.

On to a funnier story. So we all know that prisoners will do crazy stuff in jail. They try to escape, they make clubs and shanks out of paper, etc. Apparently two women needed a good fix so they decided to take a pencil, stick it in a wall socket to short out the locks to the cafeteria, snuck some tea bags and shoved them up their butts. When they got back to their cell, they took tampon wrappers, rolled the tea up in the wrappers and smoked it. Yes, they smoked tea through a tampon wrapper and it all came out of their butts, no pun intended! Haha! Anyway, the officers thought they smelled marijuana and I'm assuming they took the joints and added charges to the women's sentences. I guess you really have to keep yourself entertained in prison, one way or another.

OK this last one is scary. Apparently this guy here in Ohio managed to order some Bubonic Plague over the Internet. Yes, I did say Bubonic Plague. You can read it as many times as you want and it won't change. The cops found out that it is much easier to access than anyone ever thought, which is very scary if you ask me. Anyhow, the guy didn't do any harm with it, he just claimed he was doing 'research' in his basement. The saddest part of this story is that Ohio didn't have a law against possessing such deadly diseases (and this was only a year or two ago). So thankfully now they have made a law against owning such material like the Bubonic Plague and we had to learn about it in class today. Good stuff!

Tomorrow is PT/DT. I'm really not excited for PT because I'm still sore from Wednesday. I don't think I could do a push up/sit up to save my life. And then the fact that we have DT ALL day tomorrow is nerve racking. As usual, I'll let you know how it goes. Bring on the weekend!!!



Oh and this was the last day of codes-yay! Here are some pics of my awesome note-taking skills...