Good Hygene Threat

Apparently prison inmates can add bad breath to their arsenal to survive behind bars. A group of 11 inmates in the Westchester County jail in Valhalla New York sued to have access to dental floss but prison officials said it was too dangerous! Who knew!?! Well, prison officials did- apparently there's a pretty good history of the minty smelling string causing serious harm.

Yahoo reports: In Texas, officials believe a prisoner used floss to cut his way out of his cell, then jumped a fellow inmate and knifed him to death.

In Maryland, Illinois, West Virginia and Wisconsin, inmates collected enough floss to braid it into ropes and escape, or try to, over prison walls.

A group of escaped prisoners on the run in Texas used floss to sew up their gunshot wounds.

And a man in an Illinois jail used floss to stitch together the dummy he left in his bed when he took off.

The jail compromised and now has a supply of Kayser's "Floss Loops" — circles of rubbery floss with no hard plastic that are designed to break easily before they can be used as a weapon.

No word if that will the settle claim--- although they were also asking for $500-million dollars- so some would speculate it won't and that they're hoping that gingivitis pays.