Posted on 11/04/2005 2:53:35 PM PST by SolidSupplySide
CORPUS CHRISTI - A naked teenager who managed to escape from authorities Thursday afternoon is still on the loose. The sheriff's department was transporting the 16-year old to the Juvenile Justice Center on Gollihar about 5:30 this afternoon when he somehow managed to get loose.
Police have had no luck tracking him down. A field along Ayers was the focus of the search for quite a while, but at this hour the search has been called off. Officials wouldn't tell 6 News a whole lot about the escape, but at the time the 16-year got loose, he was wearing what's being called a Velcro coverall, like a hospital gown.
Well, the coverall didn't stay on for long and 6 News began to get calls from the public saying, 'Do you know anything about the naked handcuffed kid running down Gollihar?'
For a few moments, it seemed police had the upper hand as they swarmed an office complex along Ayers where that naked kid was spotted. But somehow he slipped away before they could cover the entire building. Around sunset, the DPS chopper was called in, and authorities used infrared cameras to search for him from above, but no luck.
They kept at it until around 8:00 p.m., before finally calling off the search. Now because he's a juvenile, we don't know why he was in custody in the first place.
We can tell you that he's Hispanic, about 4'5" and weighs about 100 pounds. Normally, we also have a clothing description here, but that was covered above. Obviously, it's a bit chilly, and we're told he may surface again over the next few hours considering his situation. Anyone who sees him should call police immediately.
he escaped while exposing his shortcomings
Doesn't the Bible mention St. Mark (unnamed of course) basically did the same thing?
I like this kid. He would make a great Marine.
See. Sometimes the media confines itself to reporting the naked truth.
They'll find him in places he's been known to hang out.
Those pesky police should wear clothes.
But they're tough... you should see them pin their badge on every morning.
Reading the headline, it appears the police were without their uniforms.
a four-foot-five sixteen year old?
In Berkely, you've got all the wrinkled-nudists and baggy-breasts-not-bombs nuts all running & flopping around protesting our nation's right to defend ourselves.
In SF, Nambla would welcome and shelter (but not clothe) the kid. But then, maybe not; a 16-year-old nude male may be too old for the peds' tastes there.
I guess...
Whole thing reminds me of the other Texas story today of the condemned murderer who walked out of a county jail dressed as a lawyer.
Not that I blame him...
"he escaped while exposing his shortcomings."
Hispanic, 4'5" tall and about 100 lbs? I would say your assessment is correct.
"Was there shrinkage?"
"Significant shrinkage!"
He's probably a recent immigrant. Perhaps an illegal. The inferior diets, especially in the interior of Mexico and other parts of South America cause those peoples to be more stunted than their American-born counterparts.
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