Court tosses inmate’s $10 million suit for escape

[Conrad]

I almost posted this in the joke section!

http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2015/09/26/court-tosses-inmates-10-million-suit-for-escape/avepfji/

CHICAGO – An inmate who escaped from a high-rise federal jail in Chicago has an unusual theory on who’s to blame: He said the government was negligent in enabling the breakout, so he sued for $10 million for damages.


 
The 7th U.S. Court of Appeals said in a Friday ruling that Jose Banks “gets credit for chutzpah.” But a three-judge panel at the Chicago-based court tossed his 2014 lawsuit.

“No one has a personal right to be better guarded or more securely restrained, so as to be unable to commit a crime,” the ruling said.

In a 2012 jailbreak, Banks and a cellmate rappelled 17 stories down on a rope fashioned from bed sheets and dental floss, then hailed a cab. Banks, now 40, was caught within days and his cellmate within weeks.

[Nosmo]

Yeah, I saw that yesterday on the web news.  I guess if the bedsheets rope had broken and he survived the fall, he would have sued the sheet manufacturer.  Actually the only thing that surprises me is that he didn't find a judge liberal enough to let the suit proceed.

Of course that begs the question of how they managed to accumulate enough sheets (and dental floss) to make a rope 17 STORIES long.  That's over 170 feet.  That's a butt-load of sheets to hide in your cell.  I think someone needs to look long and hard at the security of that there graybar hotel.

[Conrad]

That also begs the question.

Waxed or un-waxed?

[VirginiaJim]

I don't think that they would use waxed....too slippery.

[Nosmo]

Mint flavored.