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Escapee Loses Arm (tried to remove his handcuffs on a passing train - DUH! Idiot of the day award)
koat ^
Posted on 06/28/2002 1:29:10 PM PDT by chance33_98
Escapee Loses Arm
Posted: 1:18 p.m. MDT June 28, 2002
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Albuquerque police say a man who escaped from their custody lost his arm while trying to remove his handcuffs on a passing train.
A.P.D. believes the man was trying to use the train to cut the cuffs.
The man escaped last night. He was found a short while later.
His arm was found in a nearby parking lot. The man was taken to University of New Mexico Hospital in serious condition.
Today, he has been upgraded to satisfactory condition.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: New Mexico
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To: Poohbah
They've always been out there... this fancy new Internet just let's us hear about them.
To: Poohbah
Let's face it, the Internet is a great conduit for bringing out tales of stupidity! Back in the newspaper-only days, such items were used as filler around hard news articles and ads. Now, they all get to come out, and be transmitted around the planet in the blink of an eye.
To: chance33_98
I reported in an earlier thread on this idiot:
Channel 4 deserves an award, too, for gruesome coverage. The news clip I saw was shot through the back window of ambulance and showed the dis-armed escapee conscious and writhing in pain, minus his arm.
To: chance33_98
Wellll......in a way he deserves credit for "going out on a limb" and trying it :o)
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posted on
06/28/2002 2:16:28 PM PDT
by
kever
To: hunter112; ken in texas
Excellent point, but I'm not so much looking at the long term as in just the past week or so.
Is somebody testing a stupid ray on prisoners?
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posted on
06/28/2002 2:16:31 PM PDT
by
Poohbah
To: chance33_98
I suppose if the train was moving about 1 MPH you could succeed, but only if the train's wheel instantly snapped the chain in two, allowing both sides of the cuffs to go free. I wouldn't bet my arm on it though.
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posted on
06/28/2002 2:26:54 PM PDT
by
arm958
To: chance33_98
I've seen actual photographs of people who have successfully committed suicide by laying their necks (or waists) across train tracks as a train was approaching...
So much for the gun-grabber belief that if guns were outlawed, people wouldn't be able to find other sure-fire ways to commit suicide.
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posted on
06/28/2002 2:29:38 PM PDT
by
Dan Day
To: chance33_98
Are you sure he just didn't wake up next to an ugly woman?
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posted on
06/28/2002 2:33:52 PM PDT
by
folklore
To: chance33_98
As in the original"FUGITIVE",WE'VE FOUND THE ONE ARM MAN!
To: phasma proeliator; jdogbearhunter
Dooooohhh... That's gonna leave a mark.
To: CedarDave
LOL!
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posted on
06/28/2002 2:59:50 PM PDT
by
Jhoffa_
To: INSENSITIVE GUY
LOL! Insensitive, but funny!
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posted on
06/28/2002 3:24:35 PM PDT
by
xJones
To: chance33_98
Bet he will sue the train line..hope its not Amtrak!
To: CedarDave
(BTW, that location is at the north end of the ABQ yard so the train would have been moving at 10-15 mph, tops.) Well then, he must have thought that the train was moving slow enough to give him time to pull his arm out right after the wheel cut the chain.
But he forgot to think about the scenario where the chain is NOT split by the wheel? Whoops!
To: chance33_98
Albuquerque police say a man who escaped from their custody lost his arm while trying to remove his handcuffs on a passing train. The train engineer should get an award for disarming a dangerous criminal.
(Sorry..)
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posted on
06/28/2002 5:12:10 PM PDT
by
Dan Day
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