Prisoner flees after asking guard way out

Talk about a Dumb Ass -

October 02, 2009

Article from:  Agence France-Presse

FORGET the knotted bed sheets or tunnel. A New York prisoner has come up with a much easier way to break out of jail: ask the guards for the exit.

The inmate, who was wearing a suit for a court appearance on charges of multiple store robberies, simply wandered out of an open cell door and into a courtroom on Wednesday, the New York Post daily reported.

There, he calmly asked a court officer "which way is out?" and the guard - mistaking the escapee for a lawyer - directed him to the lobby.

The daring jailbird went straight to his 81-year-old mother's Manhattan home to change clothes, then left, she told the Post.

"I thought he was discharged. He was all dressed up," she said.

NAME THAT SHORT STORY - ANSWER

The answer to the below short story is Ernest Hemingways', "Indian Camp";

Lets see how well read you are. Every few days I will post a summary of a classic short story. All you have to do is to give the name and the Author...Here we go;

"One night, Dr. Adams is summoned to help an American Indian woman who has been in painful labor for two days. The doctor takes his young son, Nick, and his brother, George, to the American Indian camp on the other side of a northern Michigan lake. There, the doctor performs impromptu, improvised cesarean with a fishing knife, catgut, and no anesthetic to deliver the baby. Afterward, he discovers that the woman's husband, who was in the bunk above hers, silently cut his throat during the painful ordeal."

CREDIBLE OR NOT?

     To populations that enjoy the technological distractions of handheld gizmos and gadgets that reinforce our playful nature, the growth of the social Web (aka Web 2.0) has given them a new playground to enjoy. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and others like them are akin to the swingsets, slides and teeter-totters for this new play area--but they also give everyone a voice, enabling them to provide substance and opinions on a variety of issues.

     This growth comes just as it did with the original onset of the Web, with explosive and unpredictable results. Conventional publishing and broadcast mediums are becoming edged out by “as it happens” Web reporters and bloggers who are building their own reputations by virtue of their online identities and customizing the content to accommodate (or, alternately, create) niche markets. But many question the reliability of the new sources and the analysis of data. These publishers are everyday non-journalists, so is it just an opinion rather than fact? There is a strong push within the Web community to define contributor credibility and help identify individuals and the merit of what they produce.

What do you think?

ANOTHER EVENTFUL DAY FOR HUMANITY

I have been sitting in my office all morning doing the work that I usually do except for one difference. I am finding myself jumping on the internet from time to time to see what else catastrophic is happening.

We just had another earthquake with the possibility of another Tsunami. This one has leveled a Hospital killing over 1000 people. What is happening? I think the earth is going through some growing pangs and we are about to go for a rough and long ride. I do not think we are exempt here either.

Just now I received an update that a 6.4 earthquake just hit the same area again. Last night one hit in New Mexico. What surprises me is the actual lack of coverage. Something is happening and I am wondering if it is being downplayed, to an extent, to prevent a panic?

I can understand that because panic and just add to the problems that could be coming. I wonder what the rest of the day will bring...

Mother Earth and Father Universe...Getting Upset

I have been listening and reading the reports from all over the world the last few weeks. I wonder if we are really as blind to what is happening as it seems. Something is happening! It my not be in our backyard but it soon will be.

Earthquakes, Tsunamis, disastrous storms and volcanic activity are on the increase. We are at the lowest point of solar activity in our history. Our earth is growling and our people are dieing.

On April 7th of this year it was declared that the world is in a food shortage due to the following major reasons: new food demand by China, the high price of oil, bad weather in important farming areas (particularly Australia, the reduction of farmland available to grow foodstuff — in favor of growing biofuel crops, for the purposes of alternative, (reputedly) environmentally safe energy sources such as ethanol.

We are also seeing a decrease in drinking water but yet we do nothing to replenish or save what we have or divert water from natural paths which can lead to global disaster.

Picture a "ghost ship" sinking into the sand, left to rot on dry land by a receding sea. Then imagine dust storms sweeping up toxic pesticides and chemical fertilizers from the dry seabed and spewing them across towns and villages.

Seem like a scene from a movie about the end of the world? For people living near the Aral Sea in Central Asia, it's all too real. Thirty years ago, government planners diverted the rivers that flow into the sea in order to irrigate (provide water for) farmland. As a result, the sea has shrunk to half its original size, stranding ships on dry land (see photograph above). The seawater has tripled in salt content and become polluted, killing all 24 native species of fish.


Only 2.5% of the water on earth is drinkable. That is not very much for our growing population yet we do what we do and we pollute what is left.

Mother Earth and Father Universe are getting pissed. Unless we take control and do something and the right something we will indeed be living in a Mad max movie before the end of my lifetime...