Drawn-On Mustache Can't Hide Weight-Losing Prison Escapee

**radio667** · 01-23-2006, 05:28 PM

from wftv.com ....... POSTED: 9:55 am EST January 23, 2006

SYDNEY, Australia -- A prison inmate who shed 31 pounds so he could squeeze out of prison is back behind bars after being spotted in a mall wearing a drawn-on mustache and beard.

Robert Cole, 36, embarrassed authorities when he broke out of his hospital cell at Long Bay jail on Wednesday. He had chiseled a 6-inch hole in the brick work beside a window frame.

He reportedly managed to aid his escape by reducing his weight to 123 pounds by taking laxatives.

He was recaptured in a Sydney shopping mall on Saturday disguised with whiskers drawn on his face with a pen, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported.

"The man was wearing a fake painted beard and mustache," said Noel O'Regan-Davis, 18, who watched the arrest. "It looked hilarious."

Cole had been serving time for stealing and assault.

Lunarbunny · 01-24-2006, 11:18 AM

He couldn't have thought of washing it off then staying low while growing a REAL beard?

One hell of a feat to end up getting screwed like that.

01-23-2006, 05:28 PM	#1
radio667 I R Happy Goat Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 10,755 Downloads: 2	Drawn-On Mustache Can't Hide Weight-Losing Prison Escapee from wftv.com ....... POSTED: 9:55 am EST January 23, 2006 SYDNEY, Australia -- A prison inmate who shed 31 pounds so he could squeeze out of prison is back behind bars after being spotted in a mall wearing a drawn-on mustache and beard. Robert Cole, 36, embarrassed authorities when he broke out of his hospital cell at Long Bay jail on Wednesday. He had chiseled a 6-inch hole in the brick work beside a window frame. He reportedly managed to aid his escape by reducing his weight to 123 pounds by taking laxatives. He was recaptured in a Sydney shopping mall on Saturday disguised with whiskers drawn on his face with a pen, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported. "The man was wearing a fake painted beard and mustache," said Noel O'Regan-Davis, 18, who watched the arrest. "It looked hilarious." Cole had been serving time for stealing and assault. __________________ , "There is also a river called Helikon [in Pieria]. (...) But, they go on to say, the women who killed Orpheus wished to wash off in it the blood-stains, and thereat the River sank underground, so as not to lend its waters to cleanse manslaughter." —Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 30. 8

01-24-2006, 11:18 AM	#2
Lunarbunny BOOOMER! Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 1,674 Downloads: 2	He couldn't have thought of washing it off then staying low while growing a REAL beard? One hell of a feat to end up getting screwed like that. __________________ Since I tend to pop up then disappear again, contact me at: Google (Preferably Google Talk or Gmail) Steam Community

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