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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Legless prisoner escapes from South African hospital
2003-09-13
South African police are searching for a prisoner with no legs who managed to escape unnoticed from a hospital, the Saturday Star reported.
"Feet... ummm... stumps, don't fail me now!"
"Two months later, he is still on the run (or should that be crawl?) and the law enforcement authorities appear to be stumped," it said.
So to speak...
The newspaper said that Francois Johannes Pieterse, who had been serving a 10-year sentence in the east coast city of Durban for fraud and impersonating a doctor, was taken to a hospital in Johannesburg but escaped in July.
"Of course I'm a doctor, madame. I'm just a legless doctor..."
The guard assigned to him has been charged with negligence.
"Negligence? C'mon, boss! When was the last time a guy with no legs ran away?"
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#6  A legless man on the run? Sounds like a job for Richard Kimble...

Er...he DOES have arms, I assume? Should we list him as armed and dangerous?
Posted by: mojo   2003-9-13 11:49:05 PM  

#5  Truncated, I say, Watson.....
Posted by: Alaska Paul in Nome   2003-9-13 10:38:23 PM  

#4  "Come, Watson! The game is afoot!"

Errr...maybe not.
Posted by: Pappy   2003-9-13 2:04:02 PM  

#3  Was he impersonating a podiatrist?
Posted by: tu3031   2003-9-13 1:05:43 PM  

#2  What do you call a man with no legs in a South African jail? An escapee.
Posted by: Anonymous   2003-9-13 11:47:38 AM  

#1  It appears they forgot the first rule of prison escape management -- "When the prisoner doesn't have any legs, look under the bed first."
Posted by: snellenr   2003-9-13 11:31:17 AM  

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