# Joe Arpaio **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 28, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio/642398 "2012-11-28T19:37:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 252
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio/642398/252 "2012-12-06T17:45:50Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Is it against board rules to hope that, someday, **SA** gets picked up by the cops for a crime someone else committed, and then held in [del]prison[/del] jail while awaiting a trial that keeps being moved back indefinitely, eating food that could very well kill him, in temperatures that would cook a ham, all while fearing being beaten by the guards? I can tell you exactly what would happen. Being a conservative and therefore blessed with a reality-based outlook and philosophy, I would realize that shit happens and I had happened to fall victim to it. I would be very worried and very pissed off. I would be hoping against hope that I would be found not guilty. And I would be hating my life while I was in jail. What I wouldn’t be doing is exaggerating my plight like some silly whingebag who fears death from sandwiches nobody has died from, or being cooked by temperatures in a jail that nobody has been cooked from. Trial dates and guard beatings could be a problem, but like I’ve said at least thrice now, those are problems endemic to all prison/jail systems of large and many small sizes and hardly unique to Arpaio’s jail. In fact, going by things that have happened in jurisdictions I’ve been aware of in my life his jail seems safer than most. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-arpaio/642398)._