Radio 5! Prison! Drugs! Gullibility!
A while ago I got a bit merry and posted the following on the BBC Have Your Say section of the website in a discussion about whether tags were suitable for early release prisoners.

I was tagged for a few months in 2002. It's a flawed scheme; as long as I was at home in the evenings I could do whatever I liked in the day (without any chance of being caught breaking my restrictions of going into bars and daytime rave clubs). If anything it made me reoffend very quickly; as I couldn't go out most friends came to my house, it became a social base, and I was eventually arrested after falling into heroin use and dealing. I've just got out again, and served longer after refusing a tag. I won't reoffend this time!

Naturally, this is complete and utter bollocks.

I received this email shortly afterwards:

Hi John

I'm writing to you on the back of a comment you posted on the BBC "Have your Say" website. I don't want to put details in an email to you and wonder if you could ring me on 020 xxxx xxxx or give me a contact number for yourself.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.


I called the number and was asked if I would like to discuss these points live on air the next morning.

So I conned all of Radio 5's researchers and listeners, which is quite a good result for a big pile of bullshit.
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