But…
Please please tell me this is a joke:
Safe clothes & blankets for suicidal inmates in jails and prisons.
Link found on Mental Illness Casually.
Though looking again it makes some of my ideas look a bit more palatable. I was considering special velcro soled shoes and velcro carpets at the exits ?
LOL – the actors in the safety smocks have obviously been told to look ‘a bit mad’. The woman looks like a PD I looked after years ago.
That’s my mother !
Oh. My. God.
What next? I like your idea of velcro shoes though, could actually work (in the sense that any of these things work).
Please don’t actually tell me that some poor souls have to wear these things, surely the humiliation would just make you more suicidal?
The ‘smocks’ remind me a little of the scrubs worn in A&E, worrying!
L x
I like the page that describes the “cost effectiveness” of the smocks.
Particularly the line:
“Clothing prevents the need for treatment of hypothermia”
Really? God, those medical geniuses!
Oh She does not look a happy bunny, maybe it’s because they didn’t have one in her colour.
Also just noticed they are willing to send one to you to examine, as long as you return it in the condition it was sent, not frayed by teeth, or smelling of urine or something worse. I think I’ll order two, one in brown for day wear and the other in purple for when I’m feeling regal,
Maybe we should have a competition to see who can devise a way of using one of those smocks to commit suicide?
social suicide or actual suicide ?
If you’re strong enough you could rip it up and stuff it down your throat.
And since the mentally ill often possess super-human, animalistic strength (as well as being impervious to cold), it just might work.
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