Crazy Criminals by L. A. Keller

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Every month I enjoy digging up some crazy criminal antics to share with you. Real crime can be funnier than our imagination - at least for some of us.

Here's a 'nutty' story from Alabama

By Kim Chandler of the Associated Press, July 31, 2017

MONTGOMERY, Ala. –  A dozen inmates escaped from an Alabama jail by using peanut butter to change the numbers above a door and trick a new employee into opening another door that led outside, a sheriff said Monday.

The inmates changed the number above a cell to the number that identified the door leading outside the jail. So when an inmate asked a young, inexperienced jailer to let him into his cell, the jailer was fooled into opening the outside door instead.

The group then fled, throwing off their orange uniforms and using blankets to climb over a fence topped with razor wire on Sunday evening.

"It may sound crazy, but these people are crazy like a fox," Walker County Sheriff James Underwood said at a news conference in Jasper.

Inmates "scheme all the time to con us and our employees at the jail," Underwood added. "You have to stay on your toes. This is one time we slipped up. I'm not going to make any excuses."
The sheriff said the inmates "went off in every direction," but all but one were captured within eight hours, and the sheriff said he hoped the last prisoner would be back in custody by the end of the day Monday.

The 11 were arrested without violence, and the only person seriously hurt was an inmate who sliced his thumb climbing over the fence, the sheriff said.

The fugitives were between 18 and 30, facing charges ranging from disorderly conduct to attempted murder.

A manhunt continued for the last fugitive, Bradley Andrew Kilpatrick, 24, of Cordova, who had been jailed on charges of possessing marijuana and drug paraphernalia. That search was getting some airborne help from a state helicopter.

Underwood estimated that the inmates had cleared the barbed wire fence in less than 10 minutes.
"They took advantage of a young fellow that hadn't been here very long" and who had to monitor 150 inmates at a time, the sheriff said. They apparently saved peanut butter from food regularly served at the jail.


"They love peanut butter sandwiches," the sheriff said.

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Let's follow up the that sticky situation with some of Alabama's crazy laws which I found on dumblaws.com website.  I don't know if these are real but they do make me laugh. I would love to find someone who has broken any one of these.

Bear wrestling matches are prohibited.  Good luck if you do try this one.

You may not have an ice cream cone in your back pocket at any time.  Why waste perfectly good ice cream?

It is considered an offense to open an umbrella on a street for fear of spooking horses. I'm guessing this one was actually valid at one time.

It is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while operating a vehicle.  Dang it - I wanted to try this one!

Dominoes may not be played on Sunday.  Not an exciting game on any day.

It is illegal to wear a fake moustache in church that causes laughter.  Go ahead and try this one - I dare you.
Happy Trails,

Leslie


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