[BGHater]

Senior officials decided to treat rioting inmates to Big Mac meals

Rioting inmates at the Harmondsworth Detention Centre back in November

[3AngelaD]

So their strategy for dealing with rioting criminals is to feed them food that will cause their arteries to explode?

[Mr. Jeeves]

Look at all those unruly Quakers! ;)

[Red Badger]

Spike them with marijuana...........

[MARTIAL MONK]

Shoulda ordered McRibs.

[BobS]

Where’s the fries? And the water hoses to help wash them down?

[csvset]

[in hoc signo vinces]

Jeeeeezzzz... I guess that scene from “Children of Men” was shot on location in the UK...

[freekitty]

Hell of a prison system they have got.

I see they are treating the prisoners ever so carefully with Big Macs so they won’t just open up the door and leave.

[Sender]

1000 ham sandwiches coming right up.

[Lewite]

Twenty well placed snipers could have solved this problem in a matter of minutes.

[Let's Roll]

They will rue the day, they didn’t just shoot ‘em.

[uksupport1]

A bizarre story to say the least. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was more to it than the Daily Mail is letting on. The Daily Mail has become the newspaper version of ‘Ripley’s Believe it or Not’. As you turn each page, a headline thunders about some abnormal arrest or bizarre bit of government legislation or excessive health and safety legislation. It then argues that all of these are evidence of a terible crisis in the core of British society. In fact, they are just random annecdotes that make it into the Mail for the very reason that they are abnormal.

[Col Freeper]

The Home Office said that five detainees had been charged and remanded in custody in connection with the riot.

An anonymous UK government source was quoted as saying: "Tough measures are required when dealing with tough guys". Therefore, these five detainees have been told that they will only get Burger King meals if they fail to behave themselves.