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Nevada inmates making real ‘outlaw’ bikes
‘Big House Choppers’ expanding to larger prison facility
Associated Press
Updated: 1:33 p.m. ET Nov. 15, 2005
CARSON CITY, Nev. - If you’re looking for an “outlaw” motorcycle,
Nevada prison officials have a deal for you: a custom, high-powered
chopper that costs $40,000 or more and is built by real outlaws.
The prison system’s “Big House Choppers” venture is expanding from a
small wooden shed involving a few motorcycle-savvy convicts to a
larger prison shop in southern Nevada that will employ as many as 30
inmates.
“We are producing the only true outlaw motorcycles being produced by
outlaws in the United States,” Howard Skolnik, head of the state’s
prison industries program, said Monday.
Skolnik boasts that buyers also will receive a certificate that
confirms pieces of scrapped prison cell bars went into their bikes —
in the form of 5-inch-long fender supports.
“Little things like that make these bikes look desirable,” he said.
Skolnik told a legislative oversight panel that payment of a $15,000
licensing fee to the state Department of Motor Vehicles will clear the
way for sale of the custom choppers.
“You know, there’s no accounting for bad taste, senator,” Skolnik said
to state Sen. Bob Beers, who asked for details on the program and its
market appeal. “People want these bikes. They really do.”
© 2005 The Associated Press
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Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president
represents, more and more closely, the inner soul
of the people. On some great and glorious day the
plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last and the White House will be adorned
by a downright moron." --- H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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