A Prisoner Who Just Couldn’t Take Any More ...  PRO

A prisoner who just couldn’t take any more pulled a daring escape from the county jail in Fordyce, Arkansas. He would have been better off staying put: as the man was escaping, a county judge was ordering his immediate release because he had been locked up too long due to a clerical error. The fugitive was rearrested the next day, and faces an extended jail stay on the escape charge.

A 22-year-old Swansea, South Carolina man was arrested and charged with robbing an Amoco convenience store recently. The suspect told police he was seeking money to pay his probation fee for a previous robbery conviction. But wait - it gets dumber: the earlier conviction was for robbing the same Amoco store three years ago.

A 91-year-old Logan, Utah man had a good thing going for over 50 years: he’s been stealing power from the local electric utility since sometime in the 1940s. Investigators say the man stripped the insulation from the power company’s wires and tapped directly into the line, bypassing the meter box on his house. His scam was finally uncovered recently when he called the electric company to complain about a power outage in his neighborhood.

A group of files stolen from the Internal Affairs division of the Baltimore Police Department were recovered recently. Investigators found the missing files in a dumpster behind … a Dunkin’ Donuts Store.

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