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11-12-08, 08:23 PM #1
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Canadian prisoner, too fat for cell, released early
Canadian prisoner, too fat for cell, released early
Wed Nov 12, 2:13 pm ET
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian prison authorities were forced to release a 450-pound (205 kg) drug gang member this week because he was too large for his cell, the Journal de Montreal newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Michel Lapointe -- known as Big Mike -- was arrested in September 2006 and received a five-year sentence in May this year. The paper said he could not fit on the chair in his Montreal prison cell and when he went to bed, his body protruded six inches on either side.
A letter from the authorities to Lapointe said: "You have been detained for more than 25 months and your prison conditions are difficult because of your health".
The authorities also cited the refusal of two other facilities to accept the 37-year-old. He was freed late on Tuesday.
"I'm going to have a proper bed and finally have a chair I can sit in," he told the paper outside the prison.
"I want a normal life. I've done some stupid things and I've paid for them," he said.
(Reporting by David Ljunggren; Editing by Frank McGurty)
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11-12-08, 08:25 PM #2
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Now all the prisoners are going to try to get fat so they can get out too!
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11-12-08, 09:35 PM #3
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Why not? We already know that the obese are trying to keep from being executed. Sounds like they all need to go on a crash diet and get more exercise to me.
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11-12-08, 10:01 PM #4
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Too much Canadian bacon. Why don't they put him in a fat cell?
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11-12-08, 10:05 PM #5
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Is that next to the sleeper cell?
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11-12-08, 10:08 PM #6
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As much as health officials are barking about the rise in obesity, the prison system can't manage to catch on and have a couple of cells ready for the possibility of a larger than normal, prisoner?
Its sad really, I guess all we can do is hope that this guy really has turned over a new leaf as he says he has.It's better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you aren't!
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11-12-08, 10:33 PM #7
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Right across from the sperm cell where he was getting all the extra bagels.
Originally Posted by CTR man
Is that next to the sleeper cell?SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLUM-Ex-Sheriff Martin Howe to Will Kane in "High Noon"
"It's a great life. You risk your skin catching killers and the juries turn them loose so they can come back and shoot at you again. If your honest , your poor your whole life. And , In the end , you wind up dying all alone on some dirty street. For what? For nothing. For a tin star."
Far from being a handicap to command, compassion is the measure of it. For unless one values the lives of his soldiers and is tormented by their ordeals , he is unfit to command.
-General Omar Bradley, United States Army
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11-13-08, 12:50 AM #8
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11-13-08, 11:28 AM #9
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So is he at least being put on house arrest?
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11-13-08, 11:47 AM #10
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Naa, they're just going to make his doorways narrower. Originally Posted by IndianaFuzz
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11-13-08, 01:14 PM #11
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Ewww! Leave my sleeper program out of this! Originally Posted by CTR man
Is that next to the sleeper cell? 
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11-13-08, 01:19 PM #12
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That's Canada, folks.
We ain't far behind in our pursuit of a socialist paradise. Anyone who has any doubts, I'll let you talk to my wife, a Canadian refugee.I'm your huckleberry...
Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentus telum est!
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11-14-08, 05:39 AM #13
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Originally Posted by maclean
Good, get her to sign up on the board. At the very least we will have another new member.
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