4. Escape Artists
4.1. Two prisoners tried to escape from an appearance at a court in Watford, England Forgetting that they were handcuffed together, they ran on either side of a lamppost. Having hurtled into one another, the stunned pair was grabbed.by the guard and bundled into a waiting prison van.
4.2. Relatives bribed a prison guard to smuggle a bunch of bananas to an inmate at Pecs, Hungary. Unfortunately the guard ran into the prison commander, and apparently unaware that there might be anything wrong with them, offered him his choice of the fruit. Needless to say, the commander chase the wrong banana, bit into the metal file contained within, and had the guard up on charges.
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certain Mr. Jorgen appeared on a Danish TV quiz show and
easily outclassed his opponents. He was just about to take off with
nearly $700
and
a vacation for two in Marbella, Spain, when the
producer took him aside: it seemed security wanted a word. Jorgen
had been on the run for the previous 18
months,
and his TV-addict
prison officer had recognised him,
4A Double murderer David Graham was only too obliging when prison officers in Florida asked him to try to escape so they could test a new tracking dog. They even gave him a 30-minute start. Graham did his part perfectly, but the dog didn't Local police were called in to join the search, but Graham was long gone. A much better sniffer dog was employed at a jail in Mexico City, Mexico. It found Darren Brown hiding in a laundry van — which probably saved Brown a great deal of disappointment, as the laundry van's immediate destination was another prison,
4.5. Three imprisoned robbers broke out of a. new jail in Aixen-Provence, France by climbing ladders left behind by workmen. The workers had been erecting wires intended to deter helicopter-aided escapes from the prison yard, but in preventing the high-tech breakouts, they seem to have forgotten all about the low^tech ones.
4.G, An unnamed man reportedly climbed the wall of Chelmsford jail, in Essex, England, from the outside. He was carrying a rope with which he intended to haul his brother out The fellow lost his balance, fell into the jail, and was arrested as he staggered around the prison yard, dazed but unhurt.
5. Shop-Lifters
Steven Kemble was arrested in St. George, Utah, when he tried to flee after shoplifting a CD. After being briefly detained by a store clerk, he broke free, dashed out the door, and ran into a pillar in front of the shop, knocking himself unconscious.
Roy Philips Downfall was a colour fellow. Appearing in court on shoplifting charges, he wore a yellow parka, yellow shirt, yellow pants, and a yellow tie. It was a similar dress that drew him to the attention of the store detective at a supermarket in Oldham, England, where everything he was after had a yellow connection; jellies, mustard, cheese, three pairs of socks, and two pairs of underpants, He was given a one-month suspended sentence.
In Johannesburg, South Africa, a shoplifter with a passion for cheese was caught for the sixth time after stealing gouda and
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C heddar. Cleopas Ntima told police he paid for his other groceries, but said 'voices' told him to take the cheese.