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Morgan freeman?

This guy Blunt is an interesting character. Got acquitted on the original charges because of a procedural error and sentenced to the 5 year max for the escape. If I were him I would appeal, then I'd shoot myself for being human garbage.

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Unavailable for comment? Who is that?

Sorce should be Red, not Andy.

skynard

They were caught nearly a month after the escape -- Espinosa in Elizabeth, Blunt in Mexico City.

Hmm...I think they probably have this backwards.

The Government shouldn't be allowed to give someone prison time for escaping from prison when there was no basis to have them there in the first place.

There should be some recognition that the state action of locking someone up, who may potentially be innocent, is in itself an evil act. A necessary evil, perhaps, but nonetheless a violation of basic human dignity. When the underlying charge is acquittal, the fact that the locked up person was PROBABLY guilty evaporates, and the state should bear the weight of that wrongdoing. Usually there is no remedy- but in the special case where behavior during a wrongful imprisonment led to more charges- all those charges should be dropped, because the sprung from the initial wrongdoing of the state.

lazymojo: Unavailable for comment? Who is that?

I think they mentioned something about a bird being free

Andy Dufresne - who crawled through a river of shiat and came out clean on the other side. Why he picked taco night, I will never know.

That's why prisoners shouldn't be allowed to have nice things like posters.


FREEBIRD!!! WOO HOO!!

Did they crawl to freedom through five hundred yards of shiat smelling foulness I can't even imagine, or maybe I just don't want too?

/Five hundred yards
//that's the length of five football fields
///just shy of half a mile

One of them was acquitted of the charge for which he was originally jailed. He gets five years for breaking out, though.


HAW HAW

And that was the longest night of their lives, I am willing to bet

40oz_A_Knight: They were caught nearly a month after the escape -- Espinosa in Elizabeth, Blunt in Mexico City.

Hmm...I think they probably have this backwards.

I'm just wondering how Elizabeth felt about it.

Dont Call Me Shirley: skynard

Shouldn't you spell it correctly?

Sort of blasphemous isn't it?

lstywnch: 40oz_A_Knight: They were caught nearly a month after the escape -- Espinosa in Elizabeth, Blunt in Mexico City.

Hmm...I think they probably have this backwards.

I'm just wondering how Elizabeth felt about it.
......................

I would have thought he'd be in Zihuatenejo.

Kevin5280: Did they crawl to freedom through five hundred yards of shiat smelling foulness I can't even imagine, or maybe I just don't want too?

/Five hundred yards
//that's the length of five football fields
///just shy of half a mile

I'm guessing that's from the movie or book, but wow - it's complete FAIL.

Five hundred yards is 1500 feet. A half mile is 2640 feet. So, not even farking close to half a mile.

They escaped and left a mocking note, "thanking" a guard for "the tools." From the NJ.com story:

[the guard] later committed suicide in the basement of his Sayreville home on Jan. 2, shortly before he was to go to county police headquarters to meet with investigators looking into the escape

Very interesting.

Wow, he even went South of the border. Amazing.

/That and a big god damn poster

jmr61: Dont Call Me Shirley: skynard

Shouldn't you spell it correctly?

Sort of blasphemous isn't it?

S-K-Y-N-Y-R-D.

tenhigh: lazymojo: Unavailable for comment? Who is that?

I think they mentioned something about a bird being free

Damn hippies need to get a haircut.

What say you, fussy britches

I know why the caged bird digs

Some birds aren't meant to be caged... and then again, some need another five years, at least.

/Golf clap for Skynyrd pic.

I would question the logic of staying in the same town as the prison after breaking out, but considering that it took them a month to find him, and that the guy who went to Mexico was also found, I guess it's as good a place as any.

Robert1966

I'm guessing that's from the movie or book, but wow - it's complete FAIL.

Five hundred yards is 1500 feet. A half mile is 2640 feet. So, not even farking close to half a mile.


It's in the movie; I don't know if it's in the book.

That line always bugged me, too. I guess it sounds better than "500 yards - just shy of three-tenths of a mile".

Wow. Came for the Shawshank Redemption lines, leaving satisfied.

Englebert Slaptyback: That line always bugged me, too. I guess it sounds better than "500 yards - just shy of three-tenths of a mile".

Just because Red is the guy who can get you things, doesn't mean he's a bright bulb when it comes to math. Cut him some slack.

Gunny Highway: I know why the caged bird digs

thats nothing i know why the caged bird kills...

farbekrieg: thats nothing i know why the caged bird kills...

Black Guards! Bring farbekrieg to the Chamber of 1,000 Torments. There you may deliver torments 1 through 990. Killinger, I'm going to let you do Torture 993, because you seem to have bigger thumbs then me.

Everyone's Collective Imaginary Friend: The Government shouldn't be allowed to give someone prison time for escaping from prison when there was no basis to have them there in the first place.

I would say that a person wrongly imprisoned by the state has every right to escape. Especially if they were convicted due to wrongdoing on anyone representing the state. Planted or hidden evidence or witness coercion However in this case I think the guy was guilty and got lucky on a technicality.

Oh, and...

I'd like to tell you that Andy fought the good fight and soon after those boys left him alone. But that's not how things work in the real world.

From memory, so might be a little off.

Everyone's Collective Imaginary Friend: The Government shouldn't be allowed to give someone prison time for escaping from prison when there was no basis to have them there in the first place.

There should be some recognition that the state action of locking someone up, who may potentially be innocent, is in itself an evil act. A necessary evil, perhaps, but nonetheless a violation of basic human dignity. When the underlying charge is acquittal, the fact that the locked up person was PROBABLY guilty evaporates, and the state should bear the weight of that wrongdoing. Usually there is no remedy- but in the special case where behavior during a wrongful imprisonment led to more charges- all those charges should be dropped, because the sprung from the initial wrongdoing of the state.

This. That's the thing that stuck out most from that article.

Blunt's note read, "Espinoza, do you remember the name of the town I once told you about?" Espinoza had no clue, so instead he just dicked around in Elizabeth, NJ.

Gunny Highway: farbekrieg: thats nothing i know why the caged bird kills...

Black Guards! Bring farbekrieg to the Chamber of 1,000 Torments. There you may deliver torments 1 through 990. Killinger, I'm going to let you do Torture 993, because you seem to have bigger thumbs then me.

Awesome.

/If she hurts those boys, she'll pay! (something like that)
//No, not Maya Angelou

Lampmonster:
I'd like to tell you that Andy fought the good fight, and soon after those boys left him alone. the Sisters let him be. I wish I could tell you that - but that's not how things work in the real world. prison is no fairy-tale world.

FTFY

I used to think it would take six-hundred years to tunnel under the wall. Old Otis Blunt and Jose Espinosa did it in less than twenty.

were they being obtuse?

JesterJames: Gunny Highway: farbekrieg: thats nothing i know why the caged bird kills...

Black Guards! Bring farbekrieg to the Chamber of 1,000 Torments. There you may deliver torments 1 through 990. Killinger, I'm going to let you do Torture 993, because you seem to have bigger thumbs then me.

Awesome.

/If she hurts those boys, she'll pay! (something like that)
Well I don't think Maya Angelou was talking about this chick. She's as deadly as they come. And if she hurts those boys again I'm gonna take her down permanently this time!

//No, not Maya Angelou


FTFYA

plus you get a lifelong ban from the venture compound

mama's_tasty_foods: They escaped and left a mocking note, "thanking" a guard for "the tools." From the NJ.com story:

[the guard] later committed suicide in the basement of his Sayreville home on Jan. 2, shortly before he was to go to county police headquarters to meet with investigators looking into the escape

Very interesting.

Clearly, he saw that it was time to get busy dying.

farbekrieg: JesterJames: Gunny Highway: farbekrieg: thats nothing i know why the caged bird kills...

Black Guards! Bring farbekrieg to the Chamber of 1,000 Torments. There you may deliver torments 1 through 990. Killinger, I'm going to let you do Torture 993, because you seem to have bigger thumbs then me.

Awesome.

/If she hurts those boys, she'll pay! (something like that)
Well I don't think Maya Angelou was talking about this chick. She's as deadly as they come. And if she hurts those boys again I'm gonna take her down permanently this time!

//No, not Maya Angelou


FTFYA

plus you get a lifelong ban from the venture compound

Ah, foiled again by my laziness. Just let me grab MY BLUE WINDBREAKER!!!

/I'd punch a hole right through it.
//If you know what I mean.

Software2: /I'd punch a hole right through it.
//If you know what I mean.

you mean you'd throw a rock through it in frustration like Warden Norton?

Lampmonster: Everyone's Collective Imaginary Friend: The Government shouldn't be allowed to give someone prison time for escaping from prison when there was no basis to have them there in the first place.

I would say that a person wrongly imprisoned by the state has every right to escape. Especially if they were convicted due to wrongdoing on anyone representing the state. Planted or hidden evidence or witness coercion However in this case I think the guy was guilty and got lucky on a technicality.

He was not for real innocent.

Lampmonster: Everyone's Collective Imaginary Friend: The Government shouldn't be allowed to give someone prison time for escaping from prison when there was no basis to have them there in the first place.

I would say that a person wrongly imprisoned by the state has every right to escape. Especially if they were convicted due to wrongdoing on anyone representing the state. Planted or hidden evidence or witness coercion However in this case I think the guy was guilty and got lucky on a technicality.

Great idea. EVERYONE in prison should be allowed to escape, right now, so long as they maintain their innocence.

derbtastic: I would question the logic of staying in the same town as the prison after breaking out, but considering that it took them a month to find him, and that the guy who went to Mexico was also found, I guess it's as good a place as any.

Dear fellas, I can't believe how fast things move on the outside. I saw an automobile once when I was a kid but now they're everywhere. The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry. The parole board got me into this halfway house called "The Brewer". And a job bagging groceries at the Foodway. It's hard work and I try to keep up but my hands hurt most of the time. I don't think the store manager likes me very much. Sometimes after work I go to the park and feed the birds. I keep thinking Jake might just show up and say hello. But he never does. I hope wherever he is he's okay and makin' new friends. I have trouble sleepin' at night. I have bad dreams like I'm falling. I wake up scared. Sometimes it takes me a while to remember where I am. Maybe I should get me a gun, an, an rob the Foodway so they'd send me home. I could shoot the manager while I was at it, sort of like a bonus. I guess I'm too old for that sort of nonsense anymore. I don't like it here. I'm tired of being afraid all the time. I've decided not to stay. I doubt they'll kick up any fuss. Not for an old crook like me.

They were caught nearly a month after the escape -- Espinosa in Elizabeth, Blunt in Mexico City..

So one was getting laid and the other was getting his smoke on.

Damn cops couldn't wait eh?

I kinda feel bad for the prison guard who killed himself. Then again... I think he did help known criminals escape.