CHICAGO-- An Illinois prisoner has filed a lawsuit with an eye-popping demand: He wants his own country. | This has possibilities. Can he take the Cook County Democratic Party with him? |
Sounds like Johnny has too much time on his hands. Maybe a sledgehammer and a big pile of boulders might use up some of that excess energy...
As compensation, the 26-year-old serving a 4-year sentence for aggravated battery says he won't accept just any existing country. He wants the U.S. to grant him uninhabited land to start a new nation. The lawsuit says the territory should have enough arable land to sustain 5,000 people who'd join him later. It adds land in Alaska would be "acceptable."
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I suppose they could give him Detroit, but that's probably considered cruel and unusual punishment...