Inside the processing plant, just past a cardboard box full of tiny, plastic pieces from shredded milk jugs, four guys pulled the wrapping off black rubber gloves that Marines use to handle chemicals.

Other workers eventually will operate the machines that grind the gloves, and similar boots, into rubber mulch used on playgrounds and on a path that circles the corporation’s career development center, which sits nearby on the same four acres.

Outside, a man used white paint to touch up a wooden fence that surrounds the center. Another man worked alone on a farm behind the building, preparing to plant more corn. Afterward, he went to eat in the cafeteria, where men in white chef hats prepare fresh food while participating in a culinary arts program. Several others took college classes in a computer lab at the center.  Sounds like a bunch of care-free adult students, not a bunch of prison inmates

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency called a press conference Monday to publicly denounce the environment for blatantly refusing to pull its weight in mankind’s ongoing efforts at ecological conservation.

“For 40 years, we have worked tirelessly to ensure the health and safety of our natural environment,” a visibly angered EPA administrator Lisa Jackson told reporters. “But this can only work when it’s a give-and-take. If the environment won’t even meet us halfway by regenerating a rain forest or two, or pumping out some clean air and water every once in a while, then what’s the point of us trying?”

Added Jackson, “I’m as committed to saving the earth as anyone, but for crying out loud, when is the earth going to hold up its end of the bargain?”

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I think this one is just too silly to ever fool anyone – 5/10

Freewheelz (2000) Esquire magazine introduced its readers to an exciting new company called Freewheelz in an article titled “There Are No Free Wheels.” Freewheelz apparently planned to provide drivers with free cars. In exchange, the lucky drivers had to agree both to the placement of large advertisements on the outside of the vehicle and to the streaming of advertisements on the radio inside the car. Prospective drivers also had to submit to a screening process, which required them to submit stool samples and notarized video-store-rental receipts. The article was actually a satire of the much-touted “new economy” spawned by the internet. Attentive readers would have caught on to the joke if they had noticed that Freewheelz’s official rollout on the web was slated to occur on April 1. However, readers who did not notice this barraged the offices of Esquire magazine with phone calls, demanding to know how they could sign up to drive a Stayfresh minivan.

This one is actually kind of funny and maybe a bit believable, many folks these days still think they can get something for nothing – 8/10

We have heard there will be a new player in the Junk Car market in the USA and Canada – the buzz is that this one will have a nice ‘green’ spin to it and that is good news for everyone that cares about the planet!!!  Not much info right now but

We did get a little cute character dropped in our email box and he is going to be their mascot! Stay tuned and we will be the first to hear about the launch of this new site!