On this date in 1913, what is today the Gulf Oil Company opened the nation’s first drive-in gas station. Located at the intersection of Baum Boulevard and St. Clair Street in Pittsburgh, the filling station was a simple but pleasing structure, with a cantilevered pagoda-style roof to shelter the pumps, cars and station attendants. Before this innovation, gasoline was dispensed from sometimes awkwardly located pumps at such places as grocery and hardware stores, and even some pharmacies. Yet in the ensuing 102 years, some of this earlier practice has come full circle. Across the U.S. today, there are over 112,000 gas stations. The vast majority—some 97,000—are combined with convenience or food mart stores. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at <www.census.gov>.
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Where is everyone? The woman gets sentenced and everything goes quiet. If it had been the other way around, probably HnH’s server would have shut down from being overloaded. I am waiting for Deception to say ” I am sorry but I was wrong”. I guess you just can’t please everyone; makes a person want to say ‘Hmmm…..”
Right or wrong, I believe the “publicity” that case received on this site had a lot to do with her sentence.
So I did a little research to find out about the Work Release program that she will be involved in after the first year. Here is what I found out Copied and pasted from another site:
Work release is still DOC custody. It’s just DOC custody with more privileges. They get regular outside jobs with paychecks (they have something like 60 days to find one and the facility will often help them with that) and are allowed to leave the facility in regular clothes to go to work. AND ONLY DIRECTLY TO WORK AND BACK.
In work release, you can go to the facility and visit him on Sat/Sun just like at a regular facility – assuming he’s not at work during those hours. After he’s worked for 30 days, he’s eligible to apply for furloughs, which would allow him to leave the facility for up to 8 hours once every week and go to an approved location (such as home or a hotel) with an approved sponsor (immediate family member). He has to go directly to and from the approved location and remain at that location, with the approved sponsor, constantly during the furlough. No leaving your hotel room to go to the pool – or even the vending machine – for instance. You have to stay IN THE ROOM so you can answer the phone if they call you.
It’s a rules violation for work release inmates to have visitors while at their job site, or to deviate from their approved travel plan back and forth to work. These inmates are NOT free, and any unapproved activities on their part can easily get them an escape charge.
All of that said…it’s still way better than a regular prison
Hey, Decept, we‘re waiting for your big reveal.”NOT ONE DAY!!!”, remember that? LOL!!!!!
Let her remain in prison for at least two years before she can do the release program in my opinion. But Deception must not have heard yet.
rumor has it she made a plea deal with the court to plead guilty which is why she was able to get work release.
Most people who are allowed to be on work release as part of their sentence are never able to find a job.
whose taking bets we won’t hear from deception again? Nothing lost there.