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By: Da Sissop
Date: 12/8/98 9:14:42 PM
# Replies: 13
So they say he drowned, likely because of the weight of the makeshift "body armor" he had fashioned to protect himself from the razor wire, which consisted primarily of cardboard, and magazines wrapped around his arms, held with rubber bands.
I have this movie shot in my head, of Gurule underwater, realizing he's in trouble, and then glancing frantically back and forth at his right and left arms, wrestling with the dilemma of which magazine to abandon, "Swank or Juggs, Swank or Juggs...."
Response #1
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 12/9/98 7:24:57 AM
who is martin gurule?
Response #2
By: Da Sissop
Date: 12/9/98 7:37:07 AM
He was the death row inmate who escaped from the Huntsville prison last week.
Response #3
By: rorschach
Date: 12/9/98 6:09:12 PM
amidst a hail of AR-15 gunfire in which over 100 rounds were fired, only ONE of which GRAZED him........these guys need to learn to shoot....
Response #4
By: sooz
Date: 12/9/98 8:53:20 PM
Aw, they got the other 6 or 7 guys to come back. Only the one fella got loose.
Response #5
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 12/10/98 8:13:23 AM
This is what i miss when i leave houston! If you ask me, gurule did the right thing. if you're on death row, you might as well go on your own terms.
Response #6
By: Da Sissop
Date: 12/10/98 8:51:34 PM
I heard the best comment on the Gurule death from a co-worker. No kidding, she suggested that "maybe this will be a deterrent to others"... who might be thinking of breaking out of *DEATH* *ROW*?
Response #7
By: rorschach
Date: 12/11/98 6:36:11 PM
hey! i gotta idea! the guards need rifle practice right? and we got this huge backlog of death row inmates.............
line em up in front of an open gate with a couple hundred yards of open space before they get to the treeline... tell em they may, one at a time, run for the treeline. anybody who makes it to the treeline gets away clean (this is a lie, you put a couple squads of national guards with scoped h&k MP-10's fifty feet into the treeline to catch any stragglers.....) the only catch is that the guards get to shoot at you as you run......
think that would improve their accuracy any?
Response #8
By: Da Sissop
Date: 12/11/98 7:30:36 PM
I kinda like the idea of the "supposedly" weak spot in the wall as a means of reducing prison overcrowding and reducing the expenses of ongoing appeals.
Basically, we should put the word out that one particular part of the fence is a little less securely guarded, topped with particularly DULL razor blades... but we *don't* tell em about the minefield on the other side... or the sleep-deprived deer hunters... or the ebola virus... or the polar bears....
That would encourage more death row prisoners to try to break out (and, effectively, *waive* all appeals), where they could be killed cheaply and effectively by bumbling but well-meaning hunters, viruses or wild animals.
Response #9
By: The Sorcerer
Date: 12/12/98 3:27:54 PM
No...what you do is get Lee Marvin to take 12 of the most hardened but amiable guys on Death Row and train them for special Top Secret suicide missions against the Nazis...er...I mean international terrorists.
Sorc'(Rev)
Response #10
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 12/25/98 4:12:49 AM
I once watched The Dirty Dozen while receiving a backrub from a lovely hippie chick. Well, I was sort of halfway watching it. And while whatsisname, the football hero, was running across that courtyard and dropping grenades into the air vents, to mercilessly kill the well-dressed Nazis below, I was cheering him on. At this point the backrub stopped and she said, "You're cheering a deathrow inmate in GENOCIDE. You're such a boy."
Response #11
By: Tess Trueheart
Date: 1/10/99 8:50:52 AM
So did you ask her to make you a man?
Response #12
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 1/10/99 4:25:06 PM
If I'd have asked that, she'd have sent me off into the woods to drum around a bonfire and talk about my dad.
Of course, I rather enjoy that kind of thing, but I don't think that's what you're talking about.
Response #13
By: Tess Trueheart
Date: 1/11/99 5:42:52 AM
Only if she would have attended and offered instruction..Your suppose to do that helpless man thing, who needs guidence. Kev has this down to an art form, gets him out of all sorts of task.