Hang on a minute, New Yorkers. Not YOU. Your cockroaches won't likely earn you anything. In fact, with all the Raid and Combat you'll have to buy to convince yourself that you've reclaimed your apartment, it'll cost you. But if you're in an Israeli prison, and you've got roaches, you're in luck! (Well, sort of....because you're still in prison. But anyway...)
So saith Reuters: "An Israeli judge has ordered the country's prison authority to pay an inmate over $1,000 in compensation after he complained of having to share a cell with cockroaches."
("But juuuuudge...I ordered a single room! And those cockroaches snore something awful..."
Mordechai Yehudai filed a lawsuit complaining of poor hygiene, a lack of fresh air, broken windows and inmates who smoke in a handful of cells, a spokeswoman for the Israel Prisons Service said. "The Prisons Service mistreated the plaintiff in a number of ways, including ... broken windows, cockroaches as well as incarceration with smokers," judge Irit Cohen wrote in her verdict, according to newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.
Previously I would have thought that incarceration with smokers was a coveted thing in Israel. But after this report I brought to you a few weeks ago, I'm not so sure.
Reuters shares that "The spokeswoman said the inmate's cell would be cleaned up. Yehudai has been held in three different prisons and has had complaints about conditions in all of them."
I'm not sure, but I think that's called kvetching. Not that I'd know anything about that.
If I ever wanted compensation for the conditions in NYC Schools (which, by the way, is not much better than that Israeli prison) I'd be laughed at by the administration and told "it's not a union issue" by Randi Weingarten
Posted by: Mike Greenberg | December 13, 2007 at 04:58 PM
Besides, don't they race & wager on those roaches? That's restraint of trade! Cheers & Good Luck, 'VJ'
Posted by: VJ | December 13, 2007 at 07:10 PM