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jbd123
Jail is a unique place. If you break in, they’ll gladly let you stay or at least welcome you back at a later date. They may even insist on it. It is a deeper more interesting story, but that is the first thing that came to mind.
amenghra
TL;DR: "while a new jail in Nashville was still under construction, staff discovered missing keys and other anomalies. Surveillance footage eventually revealed that someone had repeatedly disguised themselves as a construction worker and entered the building many times. Inside, they hid weapons, tools, and escape items in walls and rooms around the facility."
xvxvx
Leaving keys etc. I could understand as a political statement, but loaded guns? Madman!
pavel_lishin
> Friedmann’s infatuation with the game had continued after he moved to Nashville, becoming so intense that his psychologist stipulated in the terms of his parole that, along with being kept from weapons, he be prevented from playing fantasy games such as D. & D.

Now that's ... that's weird.

Kiboneu
Yesterday I was just watching an episode of futurama where bender (the robot) “finds” his imagination and believes that he is a dnd character. He goes around Don Quixote style.

To defeat bender, Fry pretends to a destructive spell on him.

I couldn’t find the exact scene but…. https://youtube.com/watch?v=chjVoVcVi3A

stevenwoo
The whole article is peppered with interesting tidbits about Friedmann and his crime spree, enough for readers to want to speculate further, it's a shame he spent so much energy and time and money to place all those weapon caches in and outside of jail (how did he make enough money and have enough spare time for these obsessions!) and did not direct his focus towards a less destructive outlet like his talent in writing. This article presenting just the facts and not having any fake conversations typical of a lot of crime stories ala Capote/Larson should be lauded. Maybe the rape is true but his behavior scaring off his mother while so young seems to point to him just being somewhat broken from the start.
hollywood_court
I thought this was going to be about someone that wanted to go to jail in order to receive meals and/or healthcare. But this article was far more interesting.
assimpleaspossi
One of the Peter Sellers films (Pink Panther?), he goes to prison to visit an inmate only to have the inmate take his identity, fake beard, moustache and clothes, and walks out of jail. This happens several times. In the very last scene, he's walking out of the jail, a smirk on his face, and tries to pull off his fake beard and moustache but it doesn't come off. "Good heavens! The wrong man has escaped!!"
bstsb
fascinating article. while i certainly sympathise somewhat with Alex - it is clear his actions are at least in part a consequence of mental conditions - i can't help but feel like being caught wasn't his plan as the article seems to suggest, and he wanted chaos upon the prison's opening, as some kind of strange payback or revenge
jareklupinski
> reëlection

> reënacted

whats with the ree-s in the article...

twohaibei
I recommend reading on "Witold Pilecki" - old story, but pretty fascinating.
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mcswell
Otis Campbell was known for locking himself into the Mayberry jail.
fmajid
Nowhere near as amazing a story as that of Witold Pileski, who broke into Auschwitz and back out, to reveal to the world the horrors that went on there. And ended up murdered by the Communist regime after the end of the war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki