Dumbest Decision Of The Year

[lizbud]

Makes me wonder who is running this mental hospital. This is hands down
the dumbest thing I've ever heard in a long time.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/19/...ler/index.html

[Grace]

Makes me wonder who is running this mental hospital. This is hands down
the dumbest thing I've ever heard in a long time.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/19/...ler/index.html

Me thinks some heads will roll after this.

[lizbud]

Me thinks some heads will roll after this.

I just hope it's not a innocent public citizen. Sorry about that.

I kinda thought someone adjudged criminaly insane would never be allowed
out in public again.

[Grace]

From CNN -

A legally insane killer who escaped in Washington state during a field trip to a fair was recaptured Sunday, the Spokane County Sheriff's Department said.
Authorities combed Washington state for Phillip Paul, a killer who escaped Thursday during a field trip.

Authorities combed Washington state for Phillip Paul, a killer who escaped Thursday during a field trip.

Phillip Paul, who was on the run for three days, had been planning the break for "at least the last several months," Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich said at a news conference.

Paul was recaptured at about 4 p.m. PT in Goldendale, Washington, sheriff's Sgt. Dave Reagan said. Goldendale is about 250 miles from the site of Paul's escape from a county fair in Spokane County, Washington.

Police received a tip Saturday afternoon that Paul was dropped off by a person he managed to dupe into giving him a ride to Goldendale, Knezovich said. Police spotted him hiding in a wooded area about 100 yards from the drop-off point Sunday and eventually arrested him while he was trying to hitch another ride, Knezovich said.

Sheriff's officials told CNN affiliate KREM-TV that Paul also escaped briefly in 1991 and assaulted a law enforcement officer. That same officer was involved in arresting Paul on Sunday, Reagan said.

Paul, 47, escaped at around noon Thursday.

Though Paul had been confined in a mental institution because of a murder confession, he was allowed to go on the trip to the county fair.

Paul had packed all his personal belongings in a large backpack before leaving on the trip, which the sheriff said should have been a sign that Paul was "about ready to do something this drastic."

Paul was committed to Eastern State Hospital after admitting he strangled and slit the throat of community activist Ruth Motley in 1987, KREM-TV reported. According to court documents obtained by KREM, Paul believed Motley was a witch and killed her in response to voices in his head.

He subsequently burned a deer carcass as a sacrifice, according to the documents.

Paul's escape Thursday prompted a massive manhunt and brought criticism from many, including state government officials and police.

"There was an extreme amount of anger throughout the law enforcement community that this event even took place," Knezovich said. "This is a situation, in my opinion, that should have never happened."

Knezovich also complained that hospital officials had not reported Paul's escape for two hours, which he said also hindered the investigation.

A review of the policy that allows patients to take trips has been launched, said Susan Dreyfus, secretary of the Washington's Department of Social and Health Services. Dreyfus said she was concerned about Paul's escape and another recent brief escape by a patient at a different local mental facility.

[allmycats]

Quote: "Sgt. Dave Reagan told CNN that Paul was carrying a backpack full with clothing, leading authorities to believe he may have planned his escape." wow, when did that occur to them lol

gee, DO YA THINK? omg what did they think he had the backpack for? why didn't they question him??

[allmycats]

I wonder, if Paul had been carrying or pulling a suitcase, do you think that would have been a better CLUE to the idiots in charge of watching him?


maybe now, after his 2nd escape, he should not be allowed on field trips??

I bet the person who he hitched a ride with is breathing a big sigh of relief that he didn't get killed! scary!

[blue]

2nd escape for him. You'ld think one would be enough to deny feild trip privilages.

[allmycats]

2nd escape for him. You'ld think one would be enough to deny feild trip privilages.

yeah you would think so wouldn't you? at the very least they should have been concerned with the backpack, given his record but even if he hadn't escaped once before.

[Lady's Human]

2nd escape for him. You'ld think one would be enough to deny feild trip privilages.

But everyone deserves a second chance.........

[allmycats]

But everyone deserves a second chance.........

to escape??

ok even if he deserved (IF) the 2nd chance, they should have been more alert in watching him. he is a murderer after all.

[smokey the elder]

Talk about the inmates running the asylum.

[lizbud]

talk about the inmates running the asylum.

Amen....

[pomtzu]

He can't be too insane if he planned how to escape.

Perhaps the state needs to rethink his insanity and lock him up in a max security prison - solitary confinement 23 hrs per day - 1 hour for a shower and exercise.

[RICHARD]

Talk about the inmates running the asylum.

And they get paid better to do it, too!

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I carry around a packpack when I go out, and the thought running away from home never crossed my mind...

Now?

[allmycats]

I carry around a packpack when I go out, and the thought running away from home never crossed my mind...

yeah but you are not a murderer in an insane asylum? lots of people, ordinary people carry backpacks.