Fashion Choice Sends Man Back To Prison

[The Straight Story]

Fashion Choice Sends Man Back To Prison

POSTED: 7:17 am EDT April 28, 2006
UPDATED: 7:21 am EDT April 28, 2006

REDLANDS, Calif. -- A fashion crime sent Joseph Azter back to prison.

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Azter, 39, took his prison-issued windbreaker with him when he was released from the California Institution for Men in Chino after serving time for theft, authorities said. Bright yellow lettering on the back of the jacket spelled out "CDC prisoner."

On Tuesday, as Azter stood on a street corner in Redlands, several alarmed residents called authorities to report an escaped inmate, said police spokesman Carl Baker. Azter told a responding officer that prison officials had given him the jacket, Baker said.

Prison officials, however, said the jacket was state property and that Azter was required to turn it in upon his release.

Police arrested Azter for investigation of possessing stolen property and parole violations.

http://www.local6.com/news/9064969/detail.html

DOH!

[vptpt]

1. When I saw this thread, I thought it would be

something that would piss me off. Now that I've read it...I'm just confused about how somebody could be so dumb.

[NoPasaran]

2. They take their fashion seriously in Redlands

I remember reading that back in the Fifties they sent a woman to the electric chair for wearing white after Labor Day.