Thoughts 24 Apr 2007 09:39 pm
Kane-Tuck
A prisoner in the state of Kentucky was mistakenly freed after a phoney fax ordering his release was sent from a nearby grocery store.
The fax claimed to be from the state supreme court, but had no letterhead, and enough misspelled words to give your old english teacher ulcers.
The inmate who was the subject of this fax was Timothy Rouse, 19, and was being held on charges of assault and robbery.
He was caught at his mother’s house, after prison officials figured out their mistake, two weeks after his release.
Rouse was being held at the Kentucky Correctional and Psychiatric Center near Louisville for mental evaluation when he was released on 6 April.
The prison’s director said their policies do not require them to check the source of faxes and that spelling errors are common in legal documents.
“It’s not part of a routine check,” said Greg Taylor, “but certainly, in hindsight, that would perhaps have caused somebody to ask a question.”
I guess in ole Kane-tuck ya don’t need an attorney, hell, ya don’t even have ta know how ta spell, you just need ta get one a your friends or maybe one a your kinfolk to bawrie Jethro’s new fangled fax machine, and these nice fellers will hold the door for ya.