The New York Times has a feature about putting unsolved murders on playing cards distributed to prisons and jails. The idea is that inmates, who typically play a lot of cards, might see a victim's face, remember an important detail and contact the authorities. KCPD and the local Crime Commission copied the program locally a few years ago, with financial help from local businesses. It's been successful elsewhere, but they got a meager response in Kansas City -- a few phone calls, none of them particularly helpful. At this point, a commission spokesman said, they're not planning on doing another run of playing cards. Still, nothing ventured, nothing gained ...
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Monday, November 16, 2009
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*overheard while playing a card game*
"ok, 5 card stud, missing teenage girls are wild..."
Posted by: aqua | Monday, November 16, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Rimshot
Posted by: Man in a Mission | Monday, November 16, 2009 at 01:33 PM
Aqua, are you sure you could put the "naked women from the fifties" playing cards down long enough to use the cold csae cards?
Posted by: Pat-a-rona | Monday, November 16, 2009 at 01:37 PM
On death row the decks only have Aces and Eights in them.
Posted by: cripjak | Monday, November 16, 2009 at 02:15 PM