BisexualCaveman t1_itfreck wrote on October 23, 2022 at 9:12 AM Reply to TIL that a prison riot in 1985 on Spike Island near Cork, Ireland, ended after a mother of a prisoner heard what was happening, came to the island,& roared at her son through a megaphone after he had been on a roof for hours; it took only a few minutes of shouting & the remaining prisoners came down by newshoeshudis His mom read him so thoroughly that his homeboys got embarrassed and surrendered too. I can only imagine the cringe. Permalink 15
BisexualCaveman t1_itfreck wrote
Reply to TIL that a prison riot in 1985 on Spike Island near Cork, Ireland, ended after a mother of a prisoner heard what was happening, came to the island,& roared at her son through a megaphone after he had been on a roof for hours; it took only a few minutes of shouting & the remaining prisoners came down by newshoeshudis
His mom read him so thoroughly that his homeboys got embarrassed and surrendered too.
I can only imagine the cringe.