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Related: About this forumDumb criminals: Jailed Jerry Springer fan faces assault charges. You know which state.
Someone really wanted to watch Jerry Springer.
Donnie Floyd, 57, and other prisoners at the Clearwater jail were watching a movie one afternoon last month when Antron Laquay Smith, 32, insisted on watching the Jerry Springer Show at 1600 hours as he does every day.
Smith, seen at right, is a convicted felon with a monstrously long rap sheet that includes arrests for child abuse, domestic battery, grand theft, burglary, robbery, cocaine trafficking, kidnapping, aggravated assault, and aggravated battery on a pregnant victim. He is awaiting trial on various felonies related to his alleged activities as a pimp.
After Smith demanded to watch Springer, Floyd spoke up, an investigator reported. Smith then allegedly attacked his fellow inmate and took Floyds commissary and flushed it down the toilet.
As a result of the confrontation, Smith missed a Springer episode that featured a woman confessing to her boyfriend that she slept with his roommate Mike. In another segment, a man got down on bended knee to propose to his girlfriend, who ruined the moment by admitting that she slept with his friend Tobias.
Smith, seen at right, is a convicted felon with a monstrously long rap sheet that includes arrests for child abuse, domestic battery, grand theft, burglary, robbery, cocaine trafficking, kidnapping, aggravated assault, and aggravated battery on a pregnant victim. He is awaiting trial on various felonies related to his alleged activities as a pimp.
After Smith demanded to watch Springer, Floyd spoke up, an investigator reported. Smith then allegedly attacked his fellow inmate and took Floyds commissary and flushed it down the toilet.
As a result of the confrontation, Smith missed a Springer episode that featured a woman confessing to her boyfriend that she slept with his roommate Mike. In another segment, a man got down on bended knee to propose to his girlfriend, who ruined the moment by admitting that she slept with his friend Tobias.
I had no idea Springer was still on the air.
I got this.
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Dumb criminals: Jailed Jerry Springer fan faces assault charges. You know which state. (Original Post)
47of74
Aug 2015
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drm604
(16,230 posts)1. How do you flush a commissary down a toilet?
I don't think either type would fit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissary
A commissary is a government official charged with oversight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissary_%28store%29
A commissary is a store for provisions.
47of74
(18,470 posts)2. I'm thinking they meant ticket or some such.
drm604
(16,230 posts)3. I'm sure they did, but it's terrible reporting.
Initech
(104,058 posts)4. JERRY! JERRY! JERRY! JERRY! JERRY! JERRY! JERRY!
