let's send the hostages on a beer run!

[twaddler (imported)]

source (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi- ... 3969.story)

Man jailed after sending Iowa hostages for beer

Associated Press

12:13 PM CDT, August 27, 2008

FORT MADISON, Iowa - An Illinois man who police say held five people hostage in a motel in Fort Madison, Iowa, was arrested after he sent two of his hostages on a beer run.

Police say 33-year-old Jason Slagel of Moline is charged with five counts of false imprisonment and going armed with intent. They say Slagel pulled a knife during an argument Tuesday night with another man and told the people in the room that they wouldn't be allowed to leave.

One man was cut and Slagel had a cut on his hand, but police say the injuries weren't serious.

Police say Slagel eventually got thirsty and sent two hostages out for beer.

After they left, they called police and Slagel was arrested without incident.

[DeaconBlues (imported)]

When you see criminals doing stuff like this, really stupid stuff, do you ever wonder (as I certainly do) that MAYBE this is a clever criminal trying to act insane so that later, he can have a mental evaluation and be shown to be insane? Maybe this fellow REALLY was insane, by the legal definition that means "unable to distinguish between right and wrong, and unable to understand the consequences of his acts."

So, maybe he sent his hostages out on a beer run... because he wanted to appear insane, unable to understand that the hostages would not come back with beer.... or maybe because he REALLY was insane, and in his delluded view of things, his actions were nothing that bad, and his new found friends that others call "hostages" would probably like to return and share a case of beer with him. It is hard for me to make the call based only on this news article, but I would like to see what the courts eventually do with him.

[twaddler (imported)]

I don't think he appears insane, only quite stupid.

[Blaise (imported)]

I don't think he appears insane, only quite stupid.

See the AP now models itself on the Onion.