This Tom Sawyer's misadventures keep landing him in a Hillsborough jail

[Swede]

Tom Sawyer is in jail. • Again. • He's well known at the Hillsborough County lockup: trespassing, drinking in public, resisting arrest. Alkie crimes. It's petty stuff, but the record fills 83 pages. And that's just in Florida, since 1993.

At 77, he's one of the oldest guys in the Falkenburg Road Jail. In his mug shots, he's always wearing overalls. Sometimes his thin chest is bare beneath the dingy denim. Sometimes he wears an undershirt. But always, those overalls — except, for some reason, in the most recent booking photo. • The other day I went to see him.

"You want to talk to me?" he asks, shuffling into a holding room. "Why?" • Why? • Because it's a slow news day. Because I want to know how he got here — not just this time, but generally. Because anybody named Tom Sawyer must have a story. • Because I'm curious about the overalls.

http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/this-tom-sawyers-misadventures-keep-landing-him-in-a-hillsborough-jail/1046366

[Warpy]

1. Everybody's got a story

Sadly, this is not an uncommon one.

One guy with a similar story said he knew he was running into trouble with alcohol when he started losing wives and kids.

People die from alcoholism every day and he will, too. It sounds like he doesn't want to change that fact.

All he seems to need is a room with a lock on the door. All he gets is a jail cell.