Man Escapes Jail But Falls Down Hill

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OLYMPIA, Wash. --Lance H. Gauthun had barely escaped from the Thurston County jail before he was hollering for help and back behind bars.

Authorities heard the cries of Gauthun, 20, and a police officer pulled him to safety after he ran or fell down a steep embankment behind the jail late Tuesday and found himself stuck with temperatures in the low 30s, sheriff's deputy Daniel D. Kimball said.

"They actually rescued the escapee from himself," Kimball said Wednesday.

He said Gauthun, who had served more than half of a 20-day sentence for theft of about $150 worth of copper tubing, slipped out a fire exit about 10:45 p.m. Tuesday in the minimum-security jail annex, which houses mostly inmates on work release or assigned to work crews.

Hostility between Gauthun and other inmates may have led to the short-lived getaway, corrections Capt. Todd Thoma said.

Gauthun has been rebooked for investigation of second-degree escape, punishable by one to three months behind bars for a first-time conviction.

"He's in the big boys' jail now," Kimball added.

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Place I used to work was a plumbing distribution business. Two guy busted in in the middle of the night, diarmed the alarms, and cleaned the place out of copper tubing. They got busted when they showed up at the LOCAL scrap yard trying to turn it all into cash.

That's not what actually did them in. They busted open the coke machine, emptied the coins out, then closed it back up and used the coins to get cold sodas through out the night-while they loaded up their truck with the copper. Seriously the finger prints on the coins did them in-put them AT the scene of the crime.

The warehouse boss told the judge that he would love to hire them once they got out, he had never seen two guys load that much copper in such a short amount of time.

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Stupid is as stupid does.