(CNN) -- A legally insane killer who escaped in Washington state during a field trip to a fair was recaptured Sunday, the Spokane County Sheriff's Department said.
Phillip Paul, who was on the run for three days, had been planning the break for "at least the last several months," Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich said at a news conference.
Okay. Let's play a little game. Let's play "Spot How Many Times The Authorities Fucked Up", shall we?
Sheriff's officials told CNN affiliate KREM-TV that Paul also escaped briefly in 1991
History of escape attempts. FAIL.
Paul had packed all his personal belongings in a large backpack before leaving on the trip
Dude shows up with a "large backpack" for a trip to the fair. FAIL FAIL.
Knezovich also complained that hospital officials had not reported Paul's escape for two hours, which he said also hindered the investigation.
Giving the escaped killer mental patient a two hour head start? FAIL FAIL FAIL. Three fails, you're out.
Folks, there are just so many things wrong with this story that I don't even know where to begin. How in the name of all that's good and holy does a guy who has been placed in the care of the state as a criminally insane killer wind up at the County Fair? Are they now putting lithium in corn dogs? Does the county's largest pumpkin emit "sane" rays? Has some study been performed that shows fried dough is the new Haldol? Is there some therapeutic value to throwing softballs at milk bottles?
Words escape me, they really do. I bring my kids to the fair every year. It's fun to bring them to see the animals, to see the displays, ride the rides in the Midway, etc. It would never in a million years occur to me that my state might be furloughing psychotic killers to go play at the fair. Perhaps I'm just too simple of a man, without all the nuance and wise latina background, but there's something about "strangled a woman to death and burnt a deer carcass on her lawn" that doesn't mix with "happy families enjoying a fair".
Then again, it does give me yet another incentive to stick with the high-capacity .45 ACP...
That is all.
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I dunno about the rest, but YES! there is a therapeutic value to throwing softballs at milk bottles.
That was the thing that struck me about this whole mess: WHY the fuck would they even have field trips, for God's sake?! They're not elementary school kids!
W/V peathro
A new game at the fair? Throwing peas instead of softballs?
Corndogs - now with Lithium for a balanced mind! Err, diet.
The names Mike Dukakis and Willie Horton come to mind.
When they caught him he didn't resist arrest, but he DID have a sickle in his bag.
Wonder what that was gonna be used for...given that he slashed a woman's throat in '89 because he thought she was a witch.
This was a ticking time bomb that THANKFULLY the anchorites caught on time!
Sounds to me as if the guy has failed the "insane" test big time.
I was thinking of another Friend of the Duke -- David Bar Jonah. Former resident of Bridgewater state (not the university), relocated by the DOC to Montana, where he kidnapped, cooked and ate a young boy.
Ahh, the good ol' days of the Massachusetts miracle...
I actually live in the city where this happened, and attended the same fair just two days previous.
Let me start out right now by saying that the entire community here is/was LIVID. The police department was livid, first for the fact that Eastern State Hospital didn't even bother to inform the SPD that criminally insane patients were being trotted around the fair like a bunch of kids on a school field trip, second because Eastern State Hospital had only 1 staff member per 3-4 inmates while at the fair, and third, because the hospital staff waited two hours before informing the police about the incident.
This wasn't the first time he escaped either. He escaped in 1991, was arrested w/o incident and then while he was getting booked, he busted a police officers shoulder.
The police department is pushing now for new laws/regulations regarding Eastern State Hospital and their "furlough" program. Yay for them!
But I will agree on one thing. Eastern State Hospital dropped the ball big time here. I would suspect that they are going to be hammered soon for what happened, in an attempt to keep it from happening again.
You can't blame the SPD. They did their job. They had no idea that he was going on a field trip. They had no idea that he had all his things on him. What they did do is they found him and brought him back into custody. The EPIC fail lies directly on the shoulders of Eastern State Hospital.
(personally speaking, I saw the news, shook my head, made sure the shotgun and 1911 were loaded, and kept all the doors closed and locked.)
"without all the nuance and wise Latina background..."
Coffee spew alert !!!
"Is there some therapeutic value to throwing softballs at milk bottles?"
Perhaps, but I prefer shooting .357's at bowling pins :-D (escaped criminal/mental patients, even better)
Does anyone still seriously wonder why I would want to carry a firearm?
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