Tue Dec 18, 2012, 05:23 PM
2 inmates escape from high-rise jail in Chicago
Source: AP
CHICAGO (AP) — Two convicted bank robbers were on the run after using a knotted rope or bed sheets to escape from a high-rise federal jail in downtown Chicago early Tuesday, a week after one of them made a courtroom vow of retribution. The two men were first unaccounted for during a 5 a.m. head count, but it's unclear they were still inside the 27-story Metropolitan Correctional Center at the time, U.S. Marshal's Service spokeswoman Belkis Cantor said. Local shop owners say police didn't swarm the area until more than three hours later, when what appeared to be a rope, knotted at six-foot intervals, could be seen dangling from a window about 20 stories up. Police had said earlier Tuesday that the escape occurred sometime between 5 a.m. and 8:45 a.m. Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/2-inmates-escape-federal-prison-chicago 
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Author | Time | Post |
 2 inmates escape from high-rise jail in Chicago (Original post) |
Bosonic | Dec 2012 | OP |
| Agschmid | Dec 2012 | #1 | |
| closeupready | Dec 2012 | #2 | |
| waddirum | Dec 2012 | #19 | |
| backscatter712 | Dec 2012 | #3 | |
| slackmaster | Dec 2012 | #5 | |
| Bosonic | Dec 2012 | #6 | |
| DaveJ | Dec 2012 | #9 | |
| Agschmid | Dec 2012 | #18 | |
| frazzled | Dec 2012 | #11 | |
| DaveJ | Dec 2012 | #12 | |
| Occulus | Dec 2012 | #14 | |
| slackmaster | Dec 2012 | #4 | |
| nadinbrzezinski | Dec 2012 | #7 | |
| Gidney N Cloyd | Dec 2012 | #8 | |
| Kingofalldems | Dec 2012 | #10 | |
| Michigan Alum | Dec 2012 | #13 | |
| Gidney N Cloyd | Dec 2012 | #16 | |
| valerief | Dec 2012 | #15 | |
| former9thward | Dec 2012 | #17 |
Response to Bosonic (Original post)
Tue Dec 18, 2012, 05:25 PM
Agschmid (1,870 posts)
1. Can someone physically fit through that window? n/t
Response to Agschmid (Reply #1)
Tue Dec 18, 2012, 05:26 PM
closeupready (19,487 posts)
2. Yeah, how is that possible -
Response to Agschmid (Reply #1)
Tue Dec 18, 2012, 05:27 PM
backscatter712 (19,859 posts)
3. I'm surprised that they apparently can.
Response to Agschmid (Reply #1)
Tue Dec 18, 2012, 05:29 PM
5. Given enough time on a diet of jail swill, a lot of people could fit through those
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Response to DaveJ (Reply #9)
Tue Dec 18, 2012, 08:43 PM
Agschmid (1,870 posts)
18. Eh it probably wasn't about being a nerd but rather about the budget. n/t
Response to Agschmid (Reply #1)
Tue Dec 18, 2012, 06:10 PM
frazzled (9,144 posts)
11. The windows are only 5 inches wide
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(and 7 feet tall). I know this building. It was designed by Harry Weese in 1971.
I'm a fairly petite, 5-foot-2 woman, and I don't think I could squeeze through a 5-inch window. They must've been really skinny guys.  |
Response to frazzled (Reply #11)
Tue Dec 18, 2012, 06:23 PM
12. I'm reading average head is about 6" in diameter
Response to DaveJ (Reply #12)
Tue Dec 18, 2012, 07:32 PM
Occulus (20,341 posts)
14. If I didn't mind losing soft tissue on my freaking HEAD, I'm sure I could fit
Response to Bosonic (Original post)
Tue Dec 18, 2012, 05:28 PM
4. Evidently it isn't high enough
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Response to Bosonic (Original post)
Tue Dec 18, 2012, 05:34 PM
Gidney N Cloyd (10,454 posts)
8. Toss out the rope to make people THINK that's how you escaped.
Response to Bosonic (Original post)
Tue Dec 18, 2012, 05:54 PM
Kingofalldems (11,088 posts)
10. Were there paper mache dummies in their bunks?
Response to Bosonic (Original post)
Tue Dec 18, 2012, 07:00 PM
13. That's right near the financial district in Chicago. Always wondered why they had this in the middle
Response to Michigan Alum (Reply #13)
Tue Dec 18, 2012, 08:17 PM
Gidney N Cloyd (10,454 posts)
16. It's good to keep your crooks in one part of town.
Response to Bosonic (Original post)
Tue Dec 18, 2012, 07:57 PM
valerief (35,681 posts)
15. Kinda looks like a string on a blank keyboard. nt
Response to Bosonic (Original post)
Tue Dec 18, 2012, 08:21 PM
former9thward (6,435 posts)
17. I don't understand how this could happen.
