On Saturday night, I found myself watching a film called fight club.
Not, you understand, the seminal millenial anti-materialist hyper-masculinist blockbuster … but rather, a slightly smaller-budget home-grown Kiwiana production.
Courtesy of Black Power, and the fine folks at SERCO Mt Eden.
Of course, we all know the first two rules of Fight Club.
You do not talk about Fight Club.
Now, I would have assumed that filming your fight club before uploading it to send on to the media implicitly counts as “talking” about it to virtually anybody who would listen.
But then, we’ve all got to move with the times; and so I felt a strategic re-right of Fight Club’s rules for a SERCO institution was required.
As a man who’s already found himself *far too close* to operating under the auspices of SERCO’s tender mercies (whether as a beneficiary or during the course of my recent brush with the law) … who better to take a crack at it:
Rule 1: You do not talk about how badly SERCO has messed up running our prisons.
Rule 2: You do NOT TALK about how badly SERCO has messed up running other countries’ prisons.
Rule 3: If somebody says “stop” by filming what’s going on in Mt Eden, that doesn’t mean SERCO’s running of our prisons is over.
Rule 4: Only 2 staff per 50 prisoners to a fight.
Rule 5: Up to 3 Ministerial Reviews into how SERCO runs our prisons at a time.
Rule 6: No shirts, no shoes … doesn’t mean no sim-cards and no spliffs.
Rule 7: SERCO’s Reign of Error will go on as long as it has to.
Rule 8: If you’re a formerly state-run service … you MUST be privatized!
Oh, and by way of comparison; here’s the original rules:
What a damm good idea.
Why is a ‘fight club” in a prison an undesirable thing?
All those testosterone males locked up together! What a better activity to release it all than to have a fight club.
Only a small space needed. No special gear required.
Not like rugby, which is another testosterone releasing activity which requires a paddock sized space, special gear and uniforms.
It’s phys ed on a budget. Good lateral thinking Serco.
Yeah promote violence are you Julie31 or are you trolling?
Take it home and see how you like it there!!!
Did you cry “male violence” back awhile?
That is soooo stupid! Fight Club.
There is a lot of guys with old head injuries and brain damage from fights, assaults, vehicle crashes, even playing footy.
So who, in SERCO wonderland, is going to ensure that concussion is treated and the long-term brain damage is treated. Not released out on the streets for some bloke to end up shambling, slurring and passing for drunk – when it’s actually brain damage!
Wasn’t it enough to bang them up with less than a nod toward re-education and training? They have to add this risk, too?
Vilevilevile.
I cant believe that in the year 2015 this Roman Colosseum crap is allowed to go on – in this country !!!
Yes….I can just see Premier Kee wearing a laurel and toga with gold trim…
Caesar Kee- ligula .
And about as raving bloody mad as well.
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