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The Newest Threat to Prison Security: Crash Diets

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:10 am
by Katyusha
Clicky Cliky

What this article fails to mention is that the man in question actually went on a crash diet just prior to his prison escape - yes by literally slipping between the bars.

Still the fact that he covered so much ground before his disapearance was noticed is a little concerning - especially seeing as Long Bay is one of our more infamous jails full of all kinds of mean, nasty people... and to have unmanned watch towers overnight - The state government at it's best.

I can imagine the flak the warden must be going through by now.

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 8:50 pm
by HELLFIRE
I favor putting criminals in elecrified cages guarded by the BarPhalanx
to preclude escapes like this... but I got into a row with the Budget Department
and the local power company :roll:














Regards

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:01 pm
by Taurec
I hear Weight watches is under Homeland security surveilance now .... <g>

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:28 am
by Katyusha
HELLFIRE wrote:I favor putting criminals in elecrified cages guarded by the BarPhalanx
to preclude escapes like this... but I got into a row with the Budget Department
and the local power company :roll:
As usual, everything goes to the lowest bidder. :P And I say we up Tau's Bar Phalanx to a Bar Goalkeeper...

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 2:16 pm
by Katyusha
Well, they caught him. I dont know whose worse, the Aussie Government or Aussie Criminals.


Dieting Inmate Who Slipped Jail Recaptured

SYDNEY, Australia,
(AP) A prison inmate who shed 31 pounds so he could escape through a narrow hole in a wall has been recaptured after three days on the run in Sydney, the prison department said Sunday.

Robert Cole, 36, who was serving time for sex offenses and armed robbery, escaped from a hospital wing of Sydney's Long Bay Jail on Wednesday through 6-inch wide hole he had chiseled in the brickwork beside a window frame. He had been undergoing treatment for a psychiatric illness.

He reportedly managed to escape by reducing his weight to 123 pounds by taking laxatives.

He was recaptured in a Sydney shopping mall Saturday disguised with a beard drawn on his face with a pen, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported.

Corrective Services Department spokeswoman Candace Sutton on Sunday confirmed Cole had been recaptured and was being held in a maximum security facility in Goulburn Prison, 124 miles southwest of Sydney.

He will appear in a Sydney court on Jan. 30 either in person or by video link from prison charged with escape, Sutton said.

It was not clear how much more of his original sentence Cole still had to serve, nor what penalty he faced on the escape charge.

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:57 pm
by KashimArbalestAS
"He was recaptured in a Sydney shopping mall Saturday disguised with a beard drawn on his face with a pen, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported."

Alright people, if you're on the run, put in more effort to stay on the run.

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:37 pm
by Katyusha
I guess this means I cant bomb the Sydney Opera House disguised in my perfectly clever Pen moustache then... :roll:

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:22 pm
by KashimArbalestAS
I recommend painting your whole body in fluorescent yellow.

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:20 pm
by Katyusha
Brilliant!