Government Idiocy At Its Finest
Well now apparently there’s some “problem” with my electronic leg monitor, so now the goddamn IDOC has been calling my house every hour for the past 3 hours to check to make sure I’m here. It starts at about 4:45Am this morning, though I suppose they had been calling here a couple times the day before but I didn’t answer the phone because the Caller ID didn’t say who was calling. I certainly wondered what idiot would be calling here at 1:20AM yesterday night… And the most asinine part is that I’m supposed to get off this stupid house arrest altogether in 4 fucking days. So, instead of just letting me end this stupid shit right now since their capitalist contractor who provides the electronic monitoring equipment can’t even provide working equipment, now I have to spend the next 4 days - which happen to coincide with my finals - getting random bullshit phone calls at all hours from the IDOC. I figure what the problem is is that the battery in the leg monitor died, because I specifically asked the contractor who came here to put the leg monitor on about that, and she told me the battery usually lasts close to a year. Most likely the battery went out. Not only that, I have to wear a non-functional leg monitor clamped around my ankle for 4 more days as well. Completely pointless and idiotic.
Update 8:13PM - They sent someone here to replace the battery; just as I suspected that was the problem. So he took the leg monitor off, replaced the battery, and put it back on. Then in 4 more days I’ll get it taken off again and probably the same guy will have to come all the way back here to take the shit back. He told me one time they made him come out to a guy who was getting off the next day and fix something. Stupid bullshit. But at least I shouldn’t have the IDOC calling here at all hours now.
