5/21/19 Creative Criminals?

    I am always amazed at what humans will go through to communicate and reach out to other people.  I started watching Jailbirds tonight and it kind of has me with my mouth open a bit saying "wow" at the extent to which people go to reach people of the opposite sex.
    I remember watching Orange Is The New Black and the girls there would pass notes under the doors from one to the other until they got to the cell they needed to reach, or they would use the library system and highlight letters on pages and that would be some sort of morse code.  I even remember roaches being trained to carry notes on their backs from one cell to another.  All this I thought was pretty clever.
    In this show, and I believe it is a documentary, so this is like real shit, ladies are the main people being interviewed, but the facility is like 90% men.  The way they communicate from floor to floor is via toilet.  The toilets being made of metal conduct the voice pretty clearly and the ladies talking say that although they are on the 8th floor, they can talk with people in the cells below them all the way down to the 4th floor.  The one thing they say is that they have to remove the water to make the voices be clear.
    If that isn't amazing enough, they then fashion rope out of their white shirts and by attaching spoons at the end, they ensure that the rope from above and below get tangled together.  Once they are entangled, they can be pulled onto either of the floors and bags of contraband can be sent this way.  One of the girls was talking about getting a bag of chips from some sweet suitor up above.  All I can think of is "gross" as they showed a girl eating a bag of Doritos, and I am left thinking that went through the same pipes the poop travels on.
    The guards are aware of this and they say that is the number 1 way people get weapons and drugs on isolated floors like the women's floor, so they try to put controls like they can only flush four times an hour, but it is still hard to keep up with people that have nothing but time on their hands.  I thought all this was amazing and disgusting at the same time.  Here we are, teaching our kids to cough into our elbows and using hand sanitizer when we shake hands and these peeps are eating food transferred through literal toilets.