The Importance of Having More Than Three Functioning Neurons
Excerpted from the Harrisburg Patriot-News, 15 Jan 97
Despite hundreds of tips about six Pittsburgh state prison escapees,
the statement that led to yesterday's capture of one of them came
from the fugitive.
People in Houston doubted Thomas Berkelbaugh's story at first.
Berkelbaugh, 48, was taken to Ben Taub Hospital after creating a
ruckus in a bus station, Texas authorities said. During a
psychiatric evaluation there, Berkelbaugh blurted out that he was an
escapee, hospital spokesman Larry Johnson said.
"When he said he tunneled out of a prison in Pittsburgh, [the staff]
kind of chuckled," Johnson said. "You have to realize they hear all
kinds of stories."
But a call to one of Berkelbaugh's siblings confirmed his story,
although no one seems to know how Berkelbaugh got to Houston.
He was walking around a downtown Houston bus station for about four
hours, "talking and acting funny" in wet, soiled clothes, hospital
spokeswoman Rebecca Becerra said. When a security guard asked
Berkelbaugh to leave, he fell on the floor and started to flop
around, Harris County Sheriff's Sgt. Larry Hall said.
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Excerpted from the Empire State Surveyo New York Society of
Professional Surveyors, November 1990
One of the best examples of how ridiculous government paperwork can
be is illustrated by a recent case in Louisiana....
