Washington “Misplaces” Insane Murderer
By Wyatt Earp | September 20, 2009
Ya know, I have seen and done a lot of stupid things in my 15-year career as a law enforcement professional. Of course, I have done more stupid things than I have seen – killing that prostitute was not one of my finer moments – but that’s why pencils have erasers.
That being said, it is safe to assume that there is not an eraser big enough to wipe out this grotesquely enormous faux pas, courtesy of Washington’s Eastern State Hospital.
Ed Morrissey has the aneurysm-inducing fun:
Nothing builds confidence in government’s ability to make choices than to find out that the state of Washington took an insane murderer on a field trip to a county fair — and lost him. Not only did Washington take him from the hospital for the criminally insane to the state fair, they put $50 in his pocket, enough to buy a bus ticket to get out of the area (via Power Line):
A criminally insane killer from eastern Washington is on the run after escaping during a field trip to the county fair that his mental hospital organized.
Why such a dangerous person was out in public was a question many, including Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire, were asking as authorities searched for Phillip Arnold Paul.
Authorities at Eastern State Hospital, where Paul is a patient, are being criticized for allowing him to visit the fair despite his violent criminal past and a history of trying to escape.
Paul murdered an elderly woman in 1987, soaked her body in gasoline to throw off the dogs, and buried her in her flower garden. Despite all of his attempts to avoid detection, a jury apparently found Paul not guilty by reason of insanity instead of throwing him in jail. Paul has escaped before, too, in 1991 — when the hospital took him on a field trip to a lake.
Okay. Deep breath.
WHY THE FRAK WOULD YOU IDIOTS TAKE A CRIMINALLY INSANE KILLER TO A COUNTY FAIR?!!! AND WHY WOULD YOU GIVE SAID CRIMINALLY INSANE KILLER SPENDING MONEY?!!! FRAK!!!
Topics: WTF? | 9 Comments »
September 20th, 2009 at 11:49 am
The plots of horror movies like “Halloween” seem so ridiculous and unlikely, and yet here comes reality to trump the absurdity of these movies. If in “Halloween 312″ caretakers took Michael Myers to the local fair and gave him some walking-around money, it would be laughed off of the screen.
September 20th, 2009 at 11:53 am
“AND WHY WOULD YOU GIVE SAID CRIMINALLY INSANE KILLER SPENDING MONEY?”
Because crazy or not, you still have to pay for corn dogs and funnel cakes.
(I think somebody’s about to get a pink slip.)
September 20th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Truth is stranger than fiction.
September 20th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Because it’s the liberal Pacific Northwest silly. He just wants to have some fun too. It’s only fair….
/snark
( just wondered if you “got” that…fair, fair..)
HubbardMom
September 20th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Crankipants – Hell, I’m laughing already. But I am pure evil.
Mrs. Crankipants – Mmm . . . I would KILL for some funnel cake. Heh. It’s nature’s perfect food.
Ingineer66 – And a lot more scary.
Edee – I got it. I laughed at it. Well played, Mom.
September 20th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
My brain hurts.
September 20th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
I heard he also has a hard time tying his shoes, the laces end up in a tight knot, so they gave him a serrated 8 inch hunting knife too, to cut them if that happens. Since it is bear country up there, we won’t mention the .44 Mag
with 185 Gr. JHP’s they gave him just in case:0
September 21st, 2009 at 3:00 am
How do you expect anything to go wrong with the great weather we are having? Come on we only get like two days a year were it’s not raining? /sarcasm
September 21st, 2009 at 10:59 am
Nothing screams little old ladies like a good old fashioned county fair! They are fortunate he is back in custody and it appears did not harm anyone on his field trip this time around.