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A man killed an old lady and soaked the womans body in gasoline to throw off search dogs, as he buried the remains in her flower garden.
So how does this guy pay for his crimes? He gets to soak hot dogs in mustard at the county fair in Spokane, Washington.
You see, a person that works for the mental hospital there, but should probably be a patient, decided it would be a good idea to take the folks there on a field trip. And the 47-year-old escaped. He spent a few days out until finally being recaptured yesterday.
I immediately thought of the scene in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, when Jack Nicholson jumps a fence and gets 10 of the patients into a bus. They all go out fishing, and it seems to be a fun, theraputic trip for the bunch.
But then, nobody in that group was a murderer that pleaded insanity. Nicholsons character was one that thought he was clever and getting out of jail time by saying he was insane. But after a few of Nurse Ratchets shock treatments and a labotomy, I'm guessing he would've rather done his few months in jail.
My friend tried to tell me the other day that it's not the way it appears in movies, with criminals always pleaded insanity to just to get lighter sentences or to go to mental institutions. And I agree that he's probably right.
I just don't understand how if someone hears voices, like this guy did...were the voices also telling him the best way to throw off search dogs?
I also wondered what some of these patients would do when they walked by those funhouse mirrors that show your body all distorted.
Or, if they'd know any of the guys running the carnival games.
A man killed an old lady and soaked the womans body in gasoline to throw off search dogs, as he buried the remains in her flower garden.
So how does this guy pay for his crimes? He gets to soak hot dogs in mustard at the county fair in Spokane, Washington.
You see, a person that works for the mental hospital there, but should probably be a patient, decided it would be a good idea to take the folks there on a field trip. And the 47-year-old escaped. He spent a few days out until finally being recaptured yesterday.
I immediately thought of the scene in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, when Jack Nicholson jumps a fence and gets 10 of the patients into a bus. They all go out fishing, and it seems to be a fun, theraputic trip for the bunch.
But then, nobody in that group was a murderer that pleaded insanity. Nicholsons character was one that thought he was clever and getting out of jail time by saying he was insane. But after a few of Nurse Ratchets shock treatments and a labotomy, I'm guessing he would've rather done his few months in jail.
My friend tried to tell me the other day that it's not the way it appears in movies, with criminals always pleaded insanity to just to get lighter sentences or to go to mental institutions. And I agree that he's probably right.
I just don't understand how if someone hears voices, like this guy did...were the voices also telling him the best way to throw off search dogs?
I also wondered what some of these patients would do when they walked by those funhouse mirrors that show your body all distorted.
Or, if they'd know any of the guys running the carnival games.