This story seems to raise stupid to a whole new level. It turns out a 19-year-old woman has escaped from prison by hiding in the suitcase of a fellow inmate who was being released. Can you imagine the guards’ conversation at the prison gate?
“Lonnie, look at the big suitcase that girl is lugging. Very heavy. She must have lots of books in there.”
“Yes, or maybe large projects from metal shop. And look, she has poked holes in the side of her luggage. Very careless girl! Well, good-bye young lady, you be good on the outside! Don’t worry, we’ll close the gate behind you…”
So that scene seems bizarre enough by itself, but here’s what I may have neglected to mention: you know the prisoner escaping in the suitcase? She had less than two weeks left in her sentence. You can read the story in full by clicking here.
A woman, not the one in the story, waits with a suitcase, not the one in the story, for a train at Kyoto station, west of Tokyo, May 7, 2007. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
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Actually, you missed one in the caption. “… west of Tokyo, not the country in the story, …”
- Posted by John C AbellYeah, but then people would be all, “Bob! Tokyo is a city, not a country!”
- Posted by Robert BaslerApparently escape isn’t futile: she made it out.
They must have big suitcases in Germany.
- Posted by CharleneEscaped? Or a light repast for the long train ride home?
- Posted by Shawn HendricksEscaped? Or fell asleep hiding from Mable ‘the suspicious Adam’s Apple’ Dumbowski?
- Posted by Shawn HendricksHow do I get a set of that luggage?
No! It must be really sturdy. Really!
- Posted by Shawn HendricksLends whole new meaning to that Fight Club airport chat.
- Posted by Shawn Hendricks