Evolution in Action by Wendy Northcutt

Author:Wendy Northcutt
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789085241522
Publisher: For the Benefit of Mr. Kite
Published: 1999-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

DARWIN AWARD

HANGING AROUND JAIL

Confirmed by Darwin.

2 APRIL 1998, WISCONSIN

Correctional institutions abound with “jailhouse lawyers” who will play any legal angle to improve their situations. Joseph, a twenty-year-old inmate of the Stevens Point Jail, planned a circuitous route to freedom. He would pretend to be crazy in order to be transferred to the minimum-security mental health facility, from which it would be easier to engineer an escape.

What would a crazy person do if he were trapped in jail? Joseph pondered the question, then decided to hang himself with a bed sheet until he was unconscious, while his bunkmate alerted officials, who would cut him down and hopefully send him to the nuthouse.

Joseph’s escape plan worked more quickly than he had anticipated. He hanged himself and was taken to the freedom of a grave the very next day.

References: Louisville Eccentric Observer

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