Posted on 01/18/2006 10:12:05 AM PST by freepatriot32
SYDNEY, Australia - A prison inmate in Australia lost a dramatic amount of weight, squeezed through a gap in the wall and escaped, a newspaper reported.
Robert Cole, 35, was serving time for sex offenses and armed robbery in a prison hospital in New South Wales state when officials noticed he was missing early Wednesday, The Sydney Morning Herald reported in its online edition.
Cole, who had recently undergone a dramatic weight loss, slipped his 123-pound body through a gap between the bars on a cell window and a brick wall at which he'd been chipping away, the paper quoted an unidentified Corrective Services spokeswoman as saying.
"Because he's lost a lot of weight, he's a very narrow person, so he squeezed his way through the gap in the brick wall," she was quoted as saying.
Cole avoided the motion detectors and video cameras that monitor the prison grounds at night, then climbed a fence and escaped, the newspaper said.
It was not immediately clear how long Cole's sentence was, or how much time he had already served.
Calls to the New South Wales Corrective Services Division seeking confirmation were not immediately returned Wednesday.
Wow. Great way to lose weight. Now I just have to get arrested for something.
Must have been a whole lot of weight that guy lost!!!!
It's amazing what the right motivation can do for a diet.
Well, that sounds judgmental!
Cole avoided the motion detectors and video cameras that monitor the prison grounds at nightHe not only lost weight, he lost density.
"He not only lost weight, he lost density.'
It was his density to escape.
He lost density with great intensity.
It was his density to escape.
But it couldn't be! He lost it!
It was his density to escape.<<<
And lest we forget... he's a Peeping Tom.
It's my understanding that the baggy clothes look from the hood, including the Michigan Fab 5 basketball shorts, is a glorification of the weight loss from doing time.
Prisonfood must be really bad...
They said he only had a slim chance to escape.
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