(For a primer on legal and illegal travel, plus a cautionary tale about one gringo who got nabbed, visit Forbes.com/extra).
"I too got nabbed a few times by the banks strategies," Lawton wrote in an email.
He then jetted to his home country of Iran, got nabbed in central Europe, and was extradited.
The issue isn't with the 22-inch length because there are plenty of those available; where they fall "short" is exactly where I got nabbed: in the 14-inch width.
I think I've observed a fairly consistent phenomenon with the religious jailhouse types in which the individual earnestly yearns to be rehabilitated from whatever detrimental behavior he got nabbed for.
I made the following insufferable yet relevant retort: "Hey, remember when that gay Republican congressman got nabbed trying to pick up interns via IM, and Fox kept calling him a Democrat?" Soon, I found myself in several arguments during which I countered anecdotal evidence of anti-Republican perfidy with anecdotal evidence of Republican perfidy.
It was good that time I got nabbed for drinking a beer underage (just kidding, that was a different family member), but bad when every, and I mean every, conversation my family has around the dinner table touches it somehow -- cue my narcolepsy, face in pavlova.
After being awake in my cell for a few hours observing the graffiti (seriously, how are they doing that? Are they using their nails to carve tags into the window frames? Why?), I was told that, to speed up my processing, I was being transferred to an East London police station, because that's where I originally got nabbed.
"We stopped them!" Drew is lucky she didn't get nabbed.
I hope in the next few years that G4S and companies like it get nabbed tagging wooden legs, gravestones or something equally daft: the sooner we get over the ridiculous notion that the private sector is the best answer to reforming public services the better.
