The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #68747 Message #1925690
Posted By: Amos
03-Jan-07 - 11:59 AM
Thread Name: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper
Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper
Oiled prisoner slips out of Norway jail
Associated Press
OSLO, Norway - A Lithuanian held on suspicion of theft in an Arctic Norway jail slipped out of custody - literally - by stripping naked, smearing himself with vegetable oil and sliding through the prison bars, police said Wednesday.
"He slipped through the bars on Christmas Eve," said Svein-Erik Jacobsen, operation leader for the Oest-Finnmark Police District. The unusual escape made national news in Norway on Wednesday. [snip]
A