This is what amazed him now: Caller ID. “They didn’t even have a recording!” After spending forty days and forty nights in jail, he said (thirty-three, actually), Jones decided to plead guilty to one count of interstate threatening communications. Now, though, he claimed he hadn’t actually threatened to shoot, but he couldn’t risk prison because of his lawn-service business. Also, his pets. “So I said fuck it, I’ll take the guilty plea, because at least what I’m pleading guilty to is good. Even my preacher said that. He said, ‘You did a good thing.’ ”
