With due respect to Johnny Cash, a question about "Folsum Prison Blues"

[liberaltrucker]

The protagonist "shot a man on Reno (Nevada), just
to watch him die". Yet he's doing his time in California.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folsum_prison

:wtf:

[MiddleFingerMom]

1. EASILY explained! The protagonist had a long...

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...multi-faceted career and he just happened to get away with the one in Reno.
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I've alway assumed that line was lifted from an old Western movie.
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[liberaltrucker]

2. As good an explanation as any I can think of

:hi:

[Kaleva]

7. Might have come from Jimmie Rodgers’ line “I’m gonna shoot poor Thelma/Just to see her jump and fall

[LostInAnomie]

3. Some states rent out "space" in their prisons and jails.

I have a friend that was convicted in Indiana but is serving his time in Tennessee because Indiana rented the "space".

[The Midway Rebel]

4. I think it happened here.

http://california.hometownlocator.com/ca/lassen/reno-junction.cfm

If he would have went further west he could have shot that guy in the Buttes.

[Kaleva]

8. "he could have shot that guy in the Buttes."

I shot a man in the buttes

Just to watch him wear a colostomy bag

[Twillig]

5. Because He's Been Everywhere, Man...

And a Wanted Man.

From San Quentin.

[liberaltrucker]

9. I forgot about that vid. Thanks!

:yourock:

I suppose I'm also a wanted man...
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By my ex. But since she lacks the long
arm of the law....not a chance.

:party:

[Bragi]

6. He got moved closer to family? /nt