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A Good Reason To Lose Weight....

PostPosted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:32 pm
by BFMF
http://reuters.excite.com/article/20060 ... PE-DC.html

One more good reason to lose weight

Jan 18, 10:58 AM (ET)

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A prisoner lost some 30 pounds so he could squeeze through a hole he chiseled in a brick wall and escape from a maximum security jail in Sydney.

Robert Cole, 36, who was serving time for stealing and assault, was being treated in the Long Bay prison hospital when he broke out of jail Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning.

New South Wales state Corrective Services deputy commissioner Ian McLean told reporters it appeared Cole had deliberately lost weight so he could slip through the crack in the wall.

"It certainly looks like it to me," McLean said on Wednesday.

After squeezing through a small hole next to a window in the hospital wall, Cole scaled a wire fence crowned with razor wire and then walked along a prison wall, before jumping to freedom.

There were no guards on the prison wall overnight, as jail authorities relied on surveillance cameras and sensor detectors to stop night jailbreaks. Long Bay's security manager has been stood down pending an investigation, said McLean.


It doesn't say how heavy he was, but don't you think he could have just chiseled the hole a little wider?

Re: A Good Reason To Lose Weight....

PostPosted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 3:37 am
by Saitek
I heard about this, but I understand that if he was smart enough to get that far he would have made it bigger if he could. Remember, he must conceal it from the authorities.  ::)

Re: A Good Reason To Lose Weight....

PostPosted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 4:24 am
by Fozzer
....so much for hospital food... :'(...!

Paul... ;D...!

Re: A Good Reason To Lose Weight....

PostPosted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 5:43 am
by Flt.Lt.Andrew
The guy is a nut! Apparently he's not mentally altogether, which may explain his strange choice of escape method.



A.

Re: A Good Reason To Lose Weight....

PostPosted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 6:50 am
by Woodlouse2002
Ananova says he got his weight down to about 8 stone.

Re: A Good Reason To Lose Weight....

PostPosted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:12 pm
by BFMF
Ananova says he got his weight down to about 8 stone.


How many pounds is that?

Re: A Good Reason To Lose Weight....

PostPosted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:16 pm
by Craig.
about 112lbs

Re: A Good Reason To Lose Weight....

PostPosted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:27 pm
by BFMF
112 pounds? How could anyone lose over 30 pounds, and be that much under weight and expect to have any energy to escape?

Re: A Good Reason To Lose Weight....

PostPosted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:50 pm
by Fozzer

How many pounds is that?


Hi Andrew...!

16 Ounces = 1 Pound.
14 Pounds = 1 Stone.
2 Stones = 1 Quarter.
4 Quarters = 1 Hundredweight.
20 Hundredweight = 1 ton.

Here endeth the first lesson...

Thank goodness for Queen Victoria... ;D...!

Paul....what's all this Metric malarky... :o...?

Re: A Good Reason To Lose Weight....

PostPosted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:56 pm
by Hagar
I heard on the radio that this chap was recaptured - apparently while window-shopping.

Re: A Good Reason To Lose Weight....

PostPosted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:07 pm
by Fozzer
I heard on the radio that this chap was recaptured - apparently while window-shopping.


...to cover the hole in the wall with a nice bit of double glazing...?

LOL... ;D...!

Paul... 8)...!

Re: A Good Reason To Lose Weight....

PostPosted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 7:27 am
by gryshnak
16 Ounces = 1 Pound.
14 Pounds = 1 Stone.
2 Stones = 1 Quarter.
4 Quarters = 1 Hundredweight.
20 Hundredweight = 1 ton.

Length
325 cubebs = 1 furbish
6 furbishes = 1 nautical smile
20 nautical smiles = 1 minor league
3 minor leagues = 1 major league

Liquid Measure
24 pips = 1 damn
6 damns = 1 merkin
9.5 merkins = 1 galleon
1.2 galleons = 1 empirical galleon

Dry Measure
6 grits = 1 scrimmage
4.5 scrimmages = 1 hogsnout
3 hogsnouts = 1 ratsass
12 ratsasses = 1 passel

Weight
24 carrots = 1 pickleweight
30 pickleweights = 1 tuna
1000 tunas = 1 short ton
1.37 short tons = 1 tall ton

(from "Science Made Stupid" by Tom Weller)

Re: A Good Reason To Lose Weight....

PostPosted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 8:15 am
by Fozzer
Length
325 cubebs = 1 furbish
6 furbishes = 1 nautical smile
20 nautical smiles = 1 minor league
3 minor leagues = 1 major league

Liquid Measure
24 pips = 1 damn
6 damns = 1 merkin
9.5 merkins = 1 galleon
1.2 galleons = 1 empirical galleon

Dry Measure
6 grits = 1 scrimmage
4.5 scrimmages = 1 hogsnout
3 hogsnouts = 1 ratsass
12 ratsasses = 1 passel

Weight
24 carrots = 1 pickleweight
30 pickleweights = 1 tuna
1000 tunas = 1 short ton
1.37 short tons = 1 tall ton

(from "Science Made Stupid" by Tom Weller)


...Makes infinately more sense to me than all this modern "Metric" gibberish....

Paul...Rod, Pole, Perch, or Chain... 8)...!
... ;D...!

P.S.  Would I be correct in assuming that the French are responsible for attempting to "Metricate" my brain... ::)...!
LOL...!

Re: A Good Reason To Lose Weight....

PostPosted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 10:48 am
by BFMF
Length
325 cubebs = 1 furbish
6 furbishes = 1 nautical smile
20 nautical smiles = 1 minor league
3 minor leagues = 1 major league

Liquid Measure
24 pips = 1 damn
6 damns = 1 merkin
9.5 merkins = 1 galleon
1.2 galleons = 1 empirical galleon

Dry Measure
6 grits = 1 scrimmage
4.5 scrimmages = 1 hogsnout
3 hogsnouts = 1 ratsass
12 ratsasses = 1 passel

Weight
24 carrots = 1 pickleweight
30 pickleweights = 1 tuna
1000 tunas = 1 short ton
1.37 short tons = 1 tall ton

(from "Science Made Stupid" by Tom Weller)


LOL

Damns, merkins, passels, pips, and picklewights....? ;D

Whoever named those units was original. I think i'll stick to whatever system we use here in America ;D

Re: A Good Reason To Lose Weight....

PostPosted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 12:31 pm
by legoalex2000
man i would switch to metric in a heartbeat. all masurements are a decimal away.

although this will be fun when we change the speed limit signs

officer: you were travelling 80 in a 55 zone.

me: i thought it read 80mph! ;D :P

:)Ramos