[Ads-l] New York's Boldest

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I now see that an official sign in front of the city prison complex on
> Rikers Island reads:
>
>          CITY OF NEW YORK
> CORRECTION DEPARTMENT
>             RIKERS ISLAND
> HOME OF NEW YORK'S BOLDEST
>
> Presumably that means the officers.
>


I saw that, too. It's left me wondering it means for a prison-guard to be
the "boldest" of NYC's civil servants.

With any luck, I'll never find out.


-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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