Spam King Escapes From Federal Prison

Bobfrankly1 writes "The FBI, IRS, and the Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force are helping the US Marshals search for escaped 'Spam King' Edward 'Eddie' Davidson. He apparently jumped in a car with his wife, changed clothes at home, and hasn't been seen since." Update: 07/24 22:20 GMT by T : It seems that Davidson has been found, victim of a murder-suicide which also left two others dead.

Comments

Federal prison camp?

[Gigiya]

Why not actually have criminals go to prison?

Re:Federal prison camp?

[SatanicPuppy]

Because there is a difference between sending spam and committing a violent crime?

There are countries where jail is jail, whether you're a mass murderer or a serial jaywalker. I kinda like living in a country where they're not going to throw me in with the violent offenders if I scam the IRS.

What an idiot

[w00d]

He had a 21 month sentence in a minimum security work camp a.k.a "Club Fed". Now he gets an automatic 10 years added on for escaping and he'll be doing it in maximum security "Pound me in the ass" prison with the real bad dudes. This guy really isn't very bright.

Re:Heh

[MightyYar]

Prison is for violent people.

You forgot our incredibly successful war on drugs.

Re:What to do next?

[darkmeridian]

Prison rape is a serious problem in the United States, where over 2.1 million people are incarcerated. Depending on the statistics you believe, there are more men raped in prison then women are raped outside of prison. And it is not the "real" criminals who are the victims. For example, a 17-year-old boy was gang-raped in prison after he robbed a guy with a toy gun. Sure, the robbery was a stupid thing to do, but our society punished him by putting him in jail, not to have him gang-raped. Victims of gang-rape risk getting STDs including HIV, which effectively renders a prison sentence for forging a check into a death sentence. Our nation's drug laws have placed many in jail for relatively small crimes. These people are in danger of being raped.

Only people in the United States think it is funny that prisoners are being raped. Prison guards and administrators do not care about this problem, and it is unconstitutionally cruel to allow this to happen. I am not a softie liberal; on the contrary, I believe in the strict letter of the law. We sentence people to jail, or to die. We do not sentence them to get gang-raped for the rest of their lives. (Believe me, I'd be all in favor of getting the real criminals who rape and murder others to be raped themselves for the rest of their lives, but quite expectedly, it is those people who are doing the raping in prison.)

yeah

[Reality Master 201]

Nothing quite as funny as gay prison rape.

Re:21 months?

[wattrlz]

1. A psychopath?
2. Someone with very poor impulse control?
3. Someone with millions of dollars stashed in a country that has no extradition treaty with the one he/she was imprisoned in?

Re:What to do next?

[mdarksbane]

Wish I had mod points.

It's one of the sickest little bits of our culture that prison rape jokes aren't considered offensive.

I mean, I still make them, but I make rape jokes in general, and am occasionally considered an ass for it. Your grandma can make a "guy gets raped in prison" joke on the morning news and no one would get offended.

There are multiple cases where a man sentenced for non-violent crimes was turned into a sex slave for years, given HIV, and sent to the hospital multiple times for internal injuries relating to his treatment, and the prison guards said "tough it up and don't be a pansy."

Re:What to do next?

[jameskojiro]

People bag about the Japanese prision system being so harsh and mean, I disagree.

I would rather be in a Japanese jail cell where they lock you in a small room with no one, no prison yard, no TV, no personal property privileges and it is lonely. That a prison in the US where your bunkmate is "Bubba" and he thinks your lips look really pretty. I would rather be isolated and cut off from any one that have someone raping me in a prison.

I think the US prisons are cruel in that they allow such behavior to occur in the first place. In a way it is cruel and unusual punishment.

Re:His "inbox"...

[alexborges]

Well, if they made a fuss about spam and caught him then, imagine how they will react to him escaping a federal prision (no matter how lenient the punishment was).

He is in for a baad life. However, no intelligent wife-of-a-delinquent rescues his husband without some sort of financial plan. I bet the guy has a million or two stashed somewhere.

Re:What to do next?

[darkmeridian]

People talk about "inhumane" prison systems such as those in Iran (they cut your hands off!) or Saudi Arabia (they have public hangings and beheadings!) but we have gang-rape that is basically sanctioned by the state. Americans think their prison system is cushy but if they only knew the truth to the ass-rape joke they make they would be inclined to do something about it.

I love America. That's why I try to improve it (by criticizing its failures) so we can do more to improve it. It's un-American, I think, to rest on the laurels of our forefathers and say, "America is number one!" without doing anything to make it better.

Re:Editors

[gnick]

Here on Slashdot, a Wife is at the very least a mythical creature like a Gorgon or a Chimera, if not an actual Deity. Capitalization is required.

I love my wife dearly. I really do.

But if you're equating wives to deities in the sense that they're mystical infallible ideal beings, it's very clear that you're either unmarried or a newlywed. If you're comparing them to immensely powerful beings whose will dictates all that happens around them with no regard to the consequences and around whom all within their realm must quiver before and do their bidding or fear their wrath, I suspect you've been over to my place to visit.

[I'm kidding - she's really sweet. If you're reading this, Hon, it was a joke. Really. OK... I'll pull out the couch...]

Re:What to do next?

[sckeener]

Both my parents are in prison (my mom is guilty, but I believe my dad to be innocent)in Texas

My mom shared a story to me and it was many years go...in the 90s. The story is about how Texas uses live prisoners to test their tracking dogs.

There was a 60 year old women, with a PhD in some geology discipline, in jail. She was given a path to follow and told the dogs would try to follow her trail. She got to a swampy area and walked around it. They didn't like that so they had her do the course again but this time to go through the swampy area just to see if the dogs could track her. She did and got stuck up to armpits. She was frantic because if the dogs caught her she would be mauled. That was the least of her problems...turns out someone had been illegally dumping in the swamp and this 60 year old woman got chemical burns all over her body. She had to be flown down to Galveston for their burn unit to treat her.

that is cruel treatment....

another dog tracking tail....

a girl in her 20s was let loose into a field with grass higher than her and told a path to follow. The dogs were going to track her. She got lost and sat down. The dogs didn't find her and when she didn't turn up at the end where she was supposed to, they had to do a search...when they found her they treated her like she attempted to escape...they even took her to court to tack on more time. She was terrified when she sat down in the field because of the dogs, but she didn't know what else to do...luckly the dogs didn't find her

I have no understanding of why prisoners are needed to test dogs tracking abilities or why tracking bracelets weren't used on the prisoners.

Re:His "inbox"...

[freeweed]

Not anymore.

Sad

[BCW2]

Why do cowards always have to kill their families too? I hope this gutless bastard roasts in hell!