How do you not notice two inmates tie a bunch of sheets together, break the window, and scale down 20 stories to escape? And on top of that, you didn't notice for several hours and now they cannot be found. What a fucking joke.

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20121219/news/712199902/

Aren't you always complaining about high taxes? So you want to spend more on Prisons? This was only the second escape from this place ever. I think they are doing okay.

But seriously, the only reason there have only been two escapes is because the inmates obviously didn't realize how easy it was to escape.

Easy? Dropping yourself down 20 stories with only a bed sheet to support you is not exactly easy. This could have easily ended with these dopes splattering themselves all over the street below.

the one guy that robbed 20 banks i can see, he's made off with a shit ton of money

the other dope apparently only got like 3-4K from the bank he robbed. doesn't seem exactly worth it to risk what now is probably going to be decades in federal pound me in the ass prison

During trial, he had to be restrained because he threatened to walk out of the courtroom. He acted as his own attorney and verbally sparred with the prosecutor, at times arguing that U.S. law didn't apply to him because he was a sovereign citizen of a group that was above state and federal law.

After he was convicted by U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer, he said he would "be seeking retribution as well as damages," the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune reported.

When the judge asked how long he needed to submit a filing, Banks replied: "No motion will be filed, but you'll hear from me."

On top of that I don't understand how no one on the outside saw it....it's not like they did it in some secluded wooded area


if i was walking by and saw someone repelling down a 15 story building that happens to be a correctional center, I might get a little suspicious

Banks was an aspiring clothing designer who claimed to be a "sovereign citizen" who could not be tried in a federal court. He acted as his own attorney and had to be restrained during his trial.

There is not a lot of people in the Loop in the middle of the night when they escaped.

I wonder how they ended up being able to hoard enough bedsheets to be able to repel down 21 floors.

A bank robber named banks.....that's like an ice cream man named Cone.

Easy? Dropping yourself down 20 stories with only a bed sheet to support you is not exactly easy. This could have easily ended with these dopes splattering themselves all over the street below.

Yes. Climbing out a window is easy. The only easier way to break out would be walking out the front door.

Climb down a 20 story building with only a bed sheet. Please...

BC, you're obviously only discounting their efforts because you disagree with the act. I also disagree with the act, but it doesn't make it any less ballsy.

I wonder how they ended up being able to hoard enough bedsheets to be able to repel down 21 floors.

The window they got out of was 6" wide.

BC, you're obviously only discounting their efforts because you disagree with the act. I also disagree with the act, but it doesn't make it any less ballsy.

That's impossible. Is this where Manute Bol has been all this time?