Suspect hides from the cops in hot tub ('pruned")

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Suspect hides from the cops in hot tub
Posted on : Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:56:01 GMT | Author : General News Editor


TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 23 A man who led police on wild high speed chase through Tacoma, Wash., then hid in a hot tub for 90 minutes was a pruned mess when police finally found him. The incident began around 11:30 Wednesday night when suburban Lakewood police began pursuing a truck that had been stolen the night before, the Tacoma (Wash.) News reported Friday.
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As a helicopter and police tracking dogs searched for the suspect, a man noticed activity in his hot tub and dialed 911, the News said.

Police found the naked fugitive hiding inside the tub sick and wrinkled after an hour and a half in the 104-degree water.

Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said it was some time before they could fingerprint the suspect at the Pierce County Jail.

They had to wait for his fingers to unprune, Troyer said. He was just a pruned mess.

Copyright 2007 by UPI

True story: when my husband was in high school his parents had a hot tub. He would sometimes flip upside down and breathe from the main jet. Well, we dated in school on and off and when i graduated i broke up with him (for good I thought at the time, we reunited years later and married) he was an emotional mess. His mom and dad were understandably worried about his broken heart. One day his dad came home and hubby was doing the breathing-the-air-jet-submerged thing, with his legs sticking out of the tub. His dad immediately thought "Oh MY GOD, he's DROWNED HIMSELF!" and grabbed his feet and pulled him up. Poor hubby was scared to death someone was grabbing his feet while he was relaxing underwater.

I had no idea you could even DO that until years later when his dad retold that story. Hubby tells me he could stay under for as long as he wanted. I think I'd panic.

"...well, he did it and didn't die, obviously."

But good freaking god, that's a weird way to relax. Appealing, mind you, but weird.