Aggie
07-21-2004, 06:01 AM
I know we're not supposed to post whole stories but this is really short so have mercy on me Mojo.
I don't know which is more sad, the fact that the prisoners escaped to buy beer TWICE in one night or the fact that they didn't even get caught. The guards didn't even know until they were back in jail finishing their second case. Only in America.
Inmates slip out to buy beer, face escape charges
By The Associated Press
ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. - The party's over for four inmates accused of going on a beer run after the jail's doors were accidentally left unlocked.
The men were charged Monday with escape and bringing alcohol into a jail.
The breakout occurred Thursday night after cellblock doors at the Hawkins County Jail were left unlocked and a faulty control panel failed to alert jailers, Sheriff Warren Rimer said.
Two of the inmates walked out through a fire exit, leaving the door propped open with a Bible, and made a hole in the exercise yard fence. They walked to a market, bought some beer and returned to the jail to share it with other prisoners. When the beer ran out, the other two inmates made another beer run to a different store.
Authorities believe the inmates bought more than two cases of beer in all.
"I guess they thought if they came back they wouldn't be charged with escape," Rimer said, "but they were wrong."
The store visits did not raise alarm because the inmates were wearing street clothes borrowed from other prisoners. The jail does not have enough orange jumpsuits.
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I don't know which is more sad, the fact that the prisoners escaped to buy beer TWICE in one night or the fact that they didn't even get caught. The guards didn't even know until they were back in jail finishing their second case. Only in America.
Inmates slip out to buy beer, face escape charges
By The Associated Press
ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. - The party's over for four inmates accused of going on a beer run after the jail's doors were accidentally left unlocked.
The men were charged Monday with escape and bringing alcohol into a jail.
The breakout occurred Thursday night after cellblock doors at the Hawkins County Jail were left unlocked and a faulty control panel failed to alert jailers, Sheriff Warren Rimer said.
Two of the inmates walked out through a fire exit, leaving the door propped open with a Bible, and made a hole in the exercise yard fence. They walked to a market, bought some beer and returned to the jail to share it with other prisoners. When the beer ran out, the other two inmates made another beer run to a different store.
Authorities believe the inmates bought more than two cases of beer in all.
"I guess they thought if they came back they wouldn't be charged with escape," Rimer said, "but they were wrong."
The store visits did not raise alarm because the inmates were wearing street clothes borrowed from other prisoners. The jail does not have enough orange jumpsuits.
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