Tonight there’s gonna be a jailbre… Ah feck it, it’s freezing.
The so-called Polar Vortex is having some dramatic effects in the US right now; so cold is it in fact, that an inmate in a prison in Kentucky felt the need to ask to return to prison having escaped in the first place.
According to the LA Times, 42-year old Robert Vick showed up at a motel in Lexington, Kentucky on Monday morning and asked the manager to report him to the police as the man who had escaped from the Blackburn Correctional Complex the night before.
Vick had spent the Sunday night in an abandoned house not far from the prison on Sunday night, but struggling to cope with the freezing temperatures (approximately -30 degrees Celsius), he turned up at the motel asking to return to prison the following morning.
“I answered the door, and he said, ‘Call the law on me,’ and I looked at him kinda silly, and he said, ‘Well, I’m the one who escaped from Blackburn,'” manager of the Sunset Motel, Maurice King is quoted as saying in the LA Times.
“He said, ‘I’ve got to turn myself in, I’m froze to death.’ He was just shaking and everything.”
The story is even more bizarre when you consider that Vick apparently ‘walked away’ from the minimum security prison, where he was serving a six-year sentence for burglary and criminal possession of a forged document and was eligible for parole in March, only two months away.
The authorities were reluctant to believe King’s story when he informed them of Vick’s escape, but he was eventually escorted back to the facility after Vick himself went on the phone and gave them his prison number, which prompted the police to arrive and put an end to a search that had involved every police agency in central Kentucky.
“He was a real good guy,” King said of the man responsible for one of the briefest prison escapes of all time.
“He was calm and collected. He just froze. He was ready to go back.”
Talk about being sh*t out of luck.
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