Suspect Escapes Jail, Is Eaten by Crocodile

Reuters ^ | June 21, 2002

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - A 28-year-old Panamanian accused of killing a judge was eaten by a crocodile as he swam across a river after escaping from prison, police said on Thursday.

Oswaldo Martinez, accused of murdering judge Harmodio Mariscal on June 5 during a failed robbery in Panama City, was captured last week by police after fleeing to neighboring Costa Rica.

After being held in custody in Costa Rica, Martinez broke out of jail at the weekend and was aiming to reenter Panama through the dense jungle that divides the two Central American countries.

Martinez was eaten alive by the crocodile on Monday as he tried to swim across the River Terraba in southern Costa Rica, according to eyewitness reports confirmed by police on Thursday.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

Payback's a B***H?

[Cachelot]

Hah. Nice Croc. Give it a fish. Or a ham. Or something.

[blau993]

Ouch!

[Frohickey]

Poor crocodile.

I think that the poor abused crocodile should be caught and taken to the jail to serve out his dinner's jail sentence. He might like to hear stories from his dinner's roommates. ;)

[faintpraise]

Justice is served. ;}

[alloysteel]

What a neat idea - crocodiles as prison guards and pursuit agents. Do you think we could apply that principle here in Florida, using alligators? I would expect they would work pretty cheap, just taking all they can eat for pay.

[Future Snake Eater]

Hah. Nice Croc. Give it a fish. Or a ham. Or something.

Another prisoner, maybe?

[Mr. Lucky]

Was there any ticking sound coming from the croc?

[Grig]

"Justice is served."

The crock was named Justice?

[Warren]

What a great 'Crime doesn't pay' story.

[jlogajan]

Oswaldo Martinez, accused of murdering judge Harmodio Mariscal

Resorted to murder, huh? I wonder was was eating him?

[hchutch]

Memo

To: Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
From: hchutch
Subj: Guantanamo Guards

Recommend we pull some crocs or gators to supplement security. Especially when we rotate some Marines out to improve the habitability of their Guantanamo barracks.

r/s
hchutch

[Poohbah]

Remember the movie Flight of the Intruder, where the merchant sailor used a racial epithet to address the chief, and how it ended up?

Maybe that's how we question Al-Qaeda =:o)

[hchutch]

No, I don't recall that. I suppose I need to get a new DVD.

[Poohbah]

He's hanging the merchie over the rail of the alligator pen, gets him to say "Black is Beautiful," then tosses him in anyway and shouts "MESS CALL!"

It's in the bar fight. A classic scene, IMNHO.

[dighton]

The world has lost a gifted athlete.

[FreeTally]

as he swam across a river after escaping from prison, police said on Thursday.

I wonder if this was an escape, or one of those more common "escapes"?

[kezekiel]

[Severa]

This guy up for a posthumous Darwin award now???

[mhking]

He didn't agree with something that ate him...it ate him anyway.