Everyone probably has their own list of candidates: Sally Jesse Raphael, Donald Trump, David Lee Roth, Rush Limbaugh, etc.-- mrthingy, Aug 31 2000 Prison Island idea http://www.halfbake...tion_20-_20forever!Here's that similar idea egnor. [Jim, Aug 31 2000] Are there many desolate isles left these days?
This idea also has potential for a `fly on the wall' style documentary. It would be interesting to monitor the progress of this isolated society of corrupt leaders, psycho killers, irritating celebrities and double glazing salesmen.-- Mickey the Fish, Sep 01 2000 Regrettably, those suggested so far are the least likely to end up there...-- nicholascullum, Sep 03 2000 Forget documentary. Someone would televise it, a la Survivor.-- bookworm, Sep 04 2000 Robert Heinlein's "Conventry" was a riff on this idea.
Since Australia is not available any longer, we might try the Moon. Oops, Heinlein's been there, too, in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress."
My plan: Set aside 100,000 square miles of Dakota badland--or lease space in British Columbia. Surround it with a triple-death-electric fence (a la Jurassic Park?)...and armed guards with dogs authorized to shoot on sight.
Someone commits a felony. He is given a survival pack and a parachute. So long, buddy; don't come back. You've broken the 'social compact' and we don't want to play with you any more.
Anti-death-penalty types should LOVE this idea; we could abolish the death penalty. It is cheap, and--properly done--effective.-- boris, Sep 17 2000 "Last Man Standing" would win the Highest Ratings of all time. [I think 'Death Valley Days' is already taken]. Could they make it a Channel? THEN I would get cable.-- thumbwax, Sep 18 2000 Coventry, not Conventry. "Get thee to a nunnery" is a different solution entirely.-- hello_c, Sep 18 2000 I'm with thumbwax on this, plus I think they should throw in some random landmines and zebras-- AfroAssault, Nov 09 2000 Ya know, if you just can't handle our rules and live like an honest person, then GET OUT! I'm all for casting those out who refuse to have a little respect. I'm also for turning prisons in to prisons, not posh apartments with better TVs than me! Make it HURT real bad, so the idea of EVER stepping outside that line is unthinkable. Remember that movie with Kurt Russell in New York? There ya go - put all the nastiest jerks all together and let them do whatever - just THERE! I have always resented paying for super jerks jail terms.-- hotrodmama, Nov 29 2000 Also for misapostrophization.-- pottedstu, Sep 25 2001 I'd like to see this applied at the local level. Break the law and you're banished from returning to town (getting run out on a rail optional).-- phoenix, Dec 06 2001 Send em all to austrailia.-- CasaLoco, Feb 15 2002 MEGA CROISSANT!!!
I love this idea! We should give it a cool name, like "isle of the damned" or something!
Hey, maybe after a while it would turn into Australia the second?-- Crazy Bastard, Aug 28 2002 Greenland. I would propose for the first inmates to be, the bush family. Dick Cheney, the Blairs and Mugabes', that lot at Enron and the bloke who invented the car alarm.-- briandamage, Aug 29 2002 halfbakery