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Prisoner Escapes, Shoots Police, Then Steals Car.

reuters.com — Maybe it was the video games? Let's blame it on that.

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  • contractcentral, on 01/03/2008, -3/+54I blame global warming.
    • bamafun, on 01/03/2008, -5/+4didn't you mean al gore and global warming? after all he discovered the internet
    • Pillage, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2I blame the show prison break.
    • tomjunlee, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Nah, it's the penguin's fault.
      Next time you hear on the news about global warming, think penguins...
      • boombye, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1The Penguin? Holy Bejesus we better tell Batman!
    • Drewsmits, on 01/03/2008, -1/+0I blame El Nino. I think its time to start blaming everything on it again.
      • boombye, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1wow you are seriously living in the past, bringing up the names of hurricanes older than some of the users on here lol
    • sv650touring, on 01/03/2008, -1/+1I blame easy access to guns. If we had tighter restrictions placed on them, this wouldn't have happened.
  • Rotzooi, on 01/03/2008, -3/+17Michael Scofield?
    • PovRayMan, on 01/03/2008, -5/+7MICHAEL SCOFIELD HAS TOO MANY MORAL PROBLEMS WITH SHOOTING PEOPLE! HE WILL JUST STAND THERE WITH A SCOWLED LOOK ON HIS FACE UNTIL CHARACTER X COMES OUT FROM THE SHADOWS AND POPS THE MUTHA *****! THEN CHARACTER X SAYS SOMETHING AND THEN THE EPISODE ENDS!
      • Dokument, on 01/03/2008, -1/+1LEAVE MICHAEL SCOFIELD ALONE
      • J0hnD0e, on 01/03/2008, -0/+4WHAT THE ***** IS WRONG WITH YOUR CAPS LOCK KEY?
    • J0hnD0e, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1I have no clue where Scofield is going.
    • Judacious, on 01/03/2008, -0/+3Lol, the first mug shot looks like SGT. Doakes
  • mojaam, on 01/03/2008, -3/+8He was cornered hours in a cemetery by police and killed in a shootout. How proper.
    • Dokument, on 01/03/2008, -4/+2what was the tase count?
      • blackmesa, on 01/03/2008, -5/+3was ron paul there?
        • Anthrax704, on 01/03/2008, -2/+3did he have an iphone?
        • justinlarsen, on 01/03/2008, -1/+2did he get stoned and eat a whole jar of BUSH'S BEST Homestyle Chili?
    • flamingmb, on 01/03/2008, -0/+9He deserved it.
      • dandonia, on 01/03/2008, -1/+1he could have been tear gased/flash bombed or somet surely - a group of guys shooting at one guy is a bit unfair
        • Kingconsulting, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2What about the guy he shot in the head to steal his car? Was that "fair"?
  • BeeArePro, on 01/03/2008, -2/+39It's a publicity stunt for Grand Theft Auto 4.
    • soma4theMasses, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1I heard that rumor. After the police shot him, he picked up a couple of hookers and his car shook for a couple of minutes. Next thing you know he was launching a crotch rocket over a sky scrapper off of some stairs out in front of city hall.
  • Dokument, on 01/03/2008, -1/+3what ever happend to the shawshank redemption guys (irl)
  • Alix7, on 01/03/2008, -7/+36Fox News Media Check List:

    Homosexuality [ ]
    Muslims/Islamonazis [ ]
    Ron Paul Supporters [ ]
    Video Games [ ]
    Liberals [ ]
    Illegal Aliens [ ]
    Marilyn Manson Fans [ ]
    Music [ ]
    Anything with the word "sex" in it [ ]
    Keith Olbermann [ ]
  • UnknownVariable, on 01/03/2008, -3/+12While I'm against the idea of video games influencing violent behavior, I will say after I read the digg headline I instantly thought "Haha, sounds like Grand Theft Auto."
  • truspect0r, on 01/03/2008, -11/+4Huckabee'd
  • RSS14, on 01/03/2008, -24/+27Ron Paul.
    • uziko, on 01/03/2008, -1/+15is that all it takes to get dugg up here?
      • Dustmuffins, on 01/03/2008, -0/+10If you're looking an answer to the question you just asked, look at the comment you just replied to.
        • uziko, on 01/03/2008, -1/+8If your wondering why I asked that look at the comment under this comment.
      • truspect0r, on 01/03/2008, -7/+2Everyone deserves to get dugg up in a Ron Paul reply.
      • jgtg32a, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1That and Apple
  • aceakm, on 01/03/2008, -4/+2I just picture the guy carjacking him ala Dave Chapelle style. "Sorry, I need this."
  • bovester, on 01/03/2008, -1/+6Wow, can't believe he actually shot off his shackles. Imagine if you ***** that up, how much would that suck?

    Someone has certainly been watching too many movies...
    • benroy, on 01/03/2008, -1/+1It helps if you put the muzzle of the gun in contact with the chain where the links meet. Just make sure the bullet is not going to richocet into your person and it should work. But I could be wrong. I'll wait for Mythbusters to figure it out.
    • sporg, on 01/03/2008, -0/+4 I suspect that he probably just took the key off one of his guards and that this "shot off his shackles" bit is a cover story to diminish how incredibly incompetent they look.
      • Pherdnut, on 01/04/2008, -0/+0That sounds correct to me. I was very suspicious of that.
  • xtraa, on 01/03/2008, -2/+4Hmm. Freedom is expensive if we take the NRA's point of view.
    • dealseeker, on 01/03/2008, -2/+6By that logic:

      1) Freedom isn't free.
      2) McDonald's isn't free.
      3) McDonald's is freedom.
  • donttrip700, on 01/03/2008, -1/+20dugg for being a mile from my house
  • blackdude, on 01/03/2008, -16/+3Damn he's black. Why do ***** (yea I said it) always have to do dumb *****, then get locked up. Now that he's shot police, he's gone. Pathetic :/.
    • benroy, on 01/03/2008, -2/+6Just because you created the user name "blackdude" does not give you the right to say racist *****. Remember the episode of Seinfeld where Jerry's dentist converted to Judaism so that he could tell Jew jokes? Yeah...kind of the same thing. "Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!" -Tyler Durden.
      • blackdude, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Wow, didn't know racism existed here; the way you guys exert "*****" everywhere makes your comment look ignorant at best. Search ***** on digg, see what you get.
    • AntzNZ, on 01/03/2008, -1/+1oops! (why the ***** can't i delete comments if i change my mind.)
  • frostw, on 01/03/2008, -2/+14"You wouldn't shoot a Policeman and then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet, and then send it to the Policeman's grieving widow, and then steal it again."

    That's what the title reminded me of!
  • mrogi, on 01/03/2008, -3/+1I heard the name of the escaped prisoner is Anton Chigurh.
  • NationalistROC, on 01/03/2008, -2/+3In COD4 you save the east coast of US by killing countless terrorists, a lot of people are into that game. So shouldn't those video games that promote world-saving heroism be as influential to a person's thinking/behavior as games such as GTA are?
  • supermajic, on 01/03/2008, -4/+3Straight out of a movie. Quite the badass *****.
    • arcangelgabriel, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Asshammer escapes from prison, seriously injures people and dies in a shootout and you praise him? What the hell is wrong with the world?
  • xdvx, on 01/03/2008, -1/+2What ***** ideas comes from TV shows like Prison Break. Horrible!
  • ravan46, on 01/03/2008, -1/+8Nowhere in the article does it say video game. Of the news reports I watched during the day about this, none of them mentioned video games.

    Knock it off.
  • benroy, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2They caught this guy earlier today. He was killed in a shootout with police, apparently he also fired the first shots.
    http://tinyurl.com/39q3jy
  • 24imac, on 01/03/2008, -1/+9He is dead now.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/us/02cnd-escape. ...
    • dasdef, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2well good for him.
    • J0hnD0e, on 01/03/2008, -0/+7This is what happens when it takes a story 13 hrs to make it to the front page. It's not called news anymore.
    • arcangelgabriel, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1One less moron. So many to go.
  • BlackBonz, on 01/03/2008, -4/+3You're all wrong. Blame Hip-Hop. It's the easiest thing to target. Surprised I haven't seen that yet.
  • mal1964, on 01/03/2008, -4/+1this is i reporter from cnn its a cam phone http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
  • xtrench, on 01/03/2008, -2/+3*****, it's all a conspiracy. The government had him killed!
  • meatwaddancin, on 01/03/2008, -3/+2You know that when it says "outmaneuvered a third security official", the guard really was just either fat or lazy...
    • arcangelgabriel, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Or just some poor slob trying to make a paycheck like the rest of us.
  • fragile00, on 01/03/2008, -2/+1Talk about determination.
  • OttawaMarcin, on 01/03/2008, -2/+2Dugg for "shot a man in the head." That is ballsy.
    • arcangelgabriel, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1That's not ballsy, he's a self serving coward and now a stain on the ground.
  • Stupidumb, on 01/03/2008, -1/+2MATT DAMON
  • matthewschnoor, on 01/03/2008, -3/+0"...shot a man outside the hospital and commandeered his vehicle as a getaway car, state police said."

    It nowhere says he shot the cop.
  • aceakm, on 01/03/2008, -4/+0Footage of carjack, doesn't look like he shot the dude in the head. http://youtube.com/watch?v=b5Kx4iTK_lE
    • arcangelgabriel, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Because reality is always obvious from the comfort of your home...
  • shinon, on 01/03/2008, -1/+2Then they shot him dead in he cemetery. Should have just left him there..
    http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/02/maryland.hospi ...
  • Galactabung, on 01/03/2008, -1/+0"fled outside where he shot a driver in the head", "Police said the man he shot was in good condition."

    Wow, sounds like Halo 3 or CoD 4. At least this guy had to pick up a med-kid.
  • vioz82, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1I played diablo 2 for almost my entire life... but found no guns
  • Leomarth, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2Oh look, he stole a legally owned gun. Cops should not have guns. We should ban cops guns.
    • surian, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1but... what would they shoot themselves in the foot with?
  • Tarkaan, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Dugg for "Police said the man he shot was in good condition." .. he was shot in the head, folks!
  • m4lomb, on 01/03/2008, -5/+1Too bad the cop's wife is not a widow.
  • moletimer, on 01/03/2008, -2/+1In reality he distracted the policemen with donuts.
  • bruce86, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1I live about 5 minutes away from this hospital. Let blame it on the ***** ghetto that is Prince George County.

    PG REPRESENT!!!
    • TheSabre, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Haha. So true... Sorry, but PGC is a dump. :-) MoCo isn't much better. And that's why I stay in Fairfax Co.
  • removesstains, on 01/03/2008, -0/+3I dugg it cause

    "It was the second time a prisoner had escaped from Laurel Regional Hospital since November"

    2nd time in a 2 month period, thats classic.
  • Myztry, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2Pity he got killed in a shootout. He's the type of guy I'd previously said should be stripped of his 'human' status and have their throat slit at at a slaughterhouse before being dumped in a pit....
  • TheSexyGeek, on 01/03/2008, -1/+2I blame Jay-Z
  • PatrickTulskie, on 06/04/2008, -2/+1This is exactly why women should not be allowed to vote.
  • londubh, on 01/03/2008, -1/+2What? No one is blaming George W. Bush or Dick Cheney? I think we should blame Dick. He did after all shoot an old man in the face.
  • Linua, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1I remember watching this movie as a kid while playing pong on atari.....
  • zanderscoffee, on 01/03/2008, -0/+2"... fled outside where he shot a driver in the head..." "Police said the man he shot was in good condition."

    What?
  • markman219, on 01/03/2008, -0/+0umm no lets not blame video games. they get enough ***** from this type of stuff already.
  • MaxCorbetti, on 01/03/2008, -0/+0The policeman should have tazed the guy. Of course if he did this article would be on another topic.
  • TwwIX, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Unless it's 3+ Stars,he shouldn't worry.
    His local Pay and Spray shop will clear up those stars anyway.
  • arsenic0, on 01/03/2008, -0/+0You know whats really ***** up?

    This guy only had 30 days left on his sentence until he was released apparently...

    What goes through these peoples heads that they have to do something so horrible with only 30 days left in jail? This man needs some serious mental help.
    • arsenic0, on 01/03/2008, -0/+0I take it back, and stupid DIGG wont let me remove my comment..it must have been another escape & car jacking i heard about on the radio..
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