Man Escapes From Cops By Swimming Across A River. Too Bad He Stopped For a Beer!

Posted by The Marksman at 26 August, at 12 : 03 PM Print

Most people never think about what they would do if they escaped from prison because, well most people don’t expect to be in prison.  I guess the man in this story did not think about what he would do once he escaped either.  A prisoner who escaped from police and swam across Queensland’s Brisbane River was recaptured nearly seven hours later while downing a beer at a pub, police and hotel employees said.

Kayd Thorp, 24, escaped from police yesterday afternoon at Brisbane airport, where he had been taken to be extradited to the state of Victoria to face charges there.  Thorp swam across the river and was on the run for more than six hours before police located him that evening in the pub of the Manly Hotel.  Manly Hotel duty manager Chris Jones said police entered the pub and approached two men drinking together.

“They approached a couple sitting at the bar and spoke to a young male and after a few minutes handcuffed him and took him outside,” Jones said in statement read to the Australian Associated Press by hotel staff. “He was apparently the fugitive from the 6 p.m. news who had escaped police custody at the airport.”  Queensland police confirmed that a 24-year-old man escaped from police custody Tuesday afternoon and was re-arrested that evening.  He was to appear in court today on a charge of escaping from lawful custody.

What was the guys goal here?  First of all he successfully pulled off the hardest part which is escaping from police without being captured, but after that he definitely gets a poor grade on planning.  Most escapees will lay low and try to get out of town as quickly as possible, surely they would not go to a local bar and kick back a few beers.  Let’s say he craved a beer so bad he was willing to take a chance of being caught to get one, why not just go to the local store with a hate and shades on and buy a six pack?  Maybe this guy is not a career criminal, or maybe at the end of it all he is just a guy who really wanted a beer?

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