Disturbing Story, Spit-Take Headline

[JSngry]

Insane killer escapes on field trip to county fair

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_...EMPLATE=DEFAULT

[papsrus]

Taking an insane killer with a history of escaping to a fair and letting him walk around with $50 in his pocket is about the dumbest idea I've heard.

Can you imagine the guards? "Sorry boss. Don't know how it happened, but the insane killer got away ... again."

[Guy Berger]

What's sad is, there may be people in that hospital who are no threat to anybody, and they might get this privilege revoked because of this stupid f'up.

Guy

[Dan Gould]

How the hell did he ever get into a halfway house before? I'll bet he had even less supervision there, they are lucky he didn't escape then.

[Brad]

Amazing. What are the people who are supposed to be taking care thinking?

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

If he's nuts, sooner or later he'll find his way into the political forum....so keep your eyes peeled!!!

[BruceH]

...Or show up at a 'town hall' meeting, waiving an "Obama = Hitler" sign.

[JSngry]

Although the story is what matters in the real world, in the O-World,I was more interested in the headline. I mean...that's a classic, right? You couldn't make something like that up.

[BERIGAN]

...Or show up at a 'town hall' meeting, waiving an "Obama = Hitler" sign.

Protesters a few years ago waving signs saying Bush=Hitler, speaking truth to power, but Obama=Hitler is just crazy, wrong, and of course....RACIST!!!!

Spellcheck doesn't recognise Obama's name! It's racist too!

[Noj]

The negligence shown in allowing this loony to escape would be laughable if it weren't so dangerous. Similarly, I'd just chuckle at our resident right wingers if they weren't so horrifyingly stupid.

[AllenLowe]

If he's nuts, sooner or later he'll find his way into the political forum....so keep your eyes peeled!!!

I have never been in a half-way house - they don't have any for Nigerian royalty like me -

though I have thought of starting a half-way house orchestra -

Edited September 21, 2009 by AllenLowe

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

If he's nuts, sooner or later he'll find his way into the political forum....so keep your eyes peeled!!!

I have never been in a half-way house - they don't have any for Nigerian royalty like me -

Hey, sounds like you're in the same boat as this woman! Maybe she ('the king') can help you find a job? At a minimum, you two should form a support group......or go and get married and become her queen?

Peggielene Bartels stands in the atrium of the Embassy of Ghana in Northwest Washington, where she has worked since the late 1970s. She is also king of Otuam, Ghana.

Secretary by Day, Royalty by Night

Embassy Worker Remotely Rules a Ghanaian Town

By Paul Schwartzman

Washington Post Staff Writer

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

The king folds her own laundry, chauffeurs herself around Washington in a 1992 Honda and answers her own phone. Her boss's phone, too.

Peggielene Bartels lives in Silver Spring and works as a secretary. When she steps off an airplane in Ghana on Thursday, arriving in the coastal town her family has controlled for half a century, she will be royalty -- with a driver, a chef and an eight-bedroom palace, albeit one in need of repairs she will help finance herself.

"I'm a big-time king, you know," said Bartels, seated at her desk at the Ghanaian embassy just off Van Ness Street NW, where she has worked for almost 30 years.

In the humdrum of ordinary life, people periodically yearn for something unexpected, some kind of gilded escape, delivered, perhaps, by an unanticipated inheritance or a winning lottery ticket.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...9091503393.html

[AllenLowe]

well, as Ralph Cramden said to Alice, "I'm the King and you're nothing" -

and she said "so you're the King of Nothing."