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LONDON - YANK MUGSHOT FEVER

This is Thomas R Legg and he has just been arrested. He has also just been beamed onto the screens of thousand’s of procrastinating voyeurs, because mug-shot galleries from online news sources have become America's new catnip. Well when you spend so much fucking money on imprisoning your fellow citizens then you probably want something a little more for your money than the satisfaction of knowing they have to choose their books off a trolley. These days we want a social networking site for drunk drivers and thieves, the lewd and deviant, embezzlers and brawlers, regularly updated from sites like Newsday, mugshots.com or the Palm Beach Post. They have a photograph, a name (!) and occasionally an explanation. Add all of this together and I am 14 again with the new Final Fantasy.