Via Chas at Southern Rockies Nature Blog: A level three sexual predator escaped from a transport van into a North Dakota cornfield. Even though they were harvesting beans and such at the time, the local farmers switched gears and started taking the corn instead. They caught him. After looking at the litany of convictions, it’s too bad he didn’t accidentally fall under a harvester–twice. The North Dakota police are going to try to recoup their expenses from the transportation company that clearly didn’t follow procedure.
You can't make this stuff up..
24 responses to “You can't make this stuff up..”
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You can hide in a corn field all day. A couple dozen people can try to canvas the field and easily miss you. But you will s**t yourself when a dozen behemoths are mowing away rows and rows of your hiding places at a couple of miles per hour.Don't mess with flyover/drivethrough country.
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Brings new meaning to the term “bail out” …Heh.WV: “Colon”. I'd guess that North was 100% right…
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North–it would almost be enough to make you believe in the Watcher Behind the Rows a la Children of the Corn.Borepatch– 🙂
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The little Iowa town where I grew up has a prison, one day two city-boy inmates escaped into the nearby cornfield.Three days later, exhausted and starving, they found their way out of the cornfield…right beside the prison where they had just broken out.
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Great story!!
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Heh. Awesome!
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Too bad that they didn't reconfigure the combines for silage. That would have taught them a lesson.
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Yeah, I'd like to see some red corn and I don't mean Indian corn.
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If you ain't wandered in a corn field…Don't…Great place to find deer when pressure if high on them though….
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I spent 3 days in 100 degree weather combing through 40 acres of corn for ONE fairly large piece of evidence. I got one of those tall wick's with a red flags like old people put on their three wheeled bikes and stuck it to my ass so my team could find me.
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TJIC–that's what I thought when I read the story!45er–Agreedmaddmedic–Been there, done that. 12 years of detassling, both walking and riding. Even got crop dusted once.Brigid–there is no place more wretched than a cornfield in summer.
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TOTWTYTR–no more than he deserves.
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You can hide in a corn field all day. A couple dozen people can try to canvas the field and easily miss you. But you will s**t yourself when a dozen behemoths are mowing away rows and rows of your hiding places at a couple of miles per hour.Don't mess with flyover/drivethrough country.
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Brings new meaning to the term “bail out” …Heh.WV: “Colon”. I'd guess that North was 100% right…
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North–it would almost be enough to make you believe in the Watcher Behind the Rows a la Children of the Corn.Borepatch– 🙂
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The little Iowa town where I grew up has a prison, one day two city-boy inmates escaped into the nearby cornfield.Three days later, exhausted and starving, they found their way out of the cornfield…right beside the prison where they had just broken out.
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Great story!!
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Heh. Awesome!
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Too bad that they didn't reconfigure the combines for silage. That would have taught them a lesson.
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Yeah, I'd like to see some red corn and I don't mean Indian corn.
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If you ain't wandered in a corn field…Don't…Great place to find deer when pressure if high on them though….
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I spent 3 days in 100 degree weather combing through 40 acres of corn for ONE fairly large piece of evidence. I got one of those tall wick's with a red flags like old people put on their three wheeled bikes and stuck it to my ass so my team could find me.
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TJIC–that's what I thought when I read the story!45er–Agreedmaddmedic–Been there, done that. 12 years of detassling, both walking and riding. Even got crop dusted once.Brigid–there is no place more wretched than a cornfield in summer.
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TOTWTYTR–no more than he deserves.
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