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Why "progressive artist"? Whence "progressive"?


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 12:17 PM
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"Dream Fulfilled," baby.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 12:22 PM
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I'm surprised they have made it this long, but with each passing day I think it less likely that they will be recaptured (i) alive and (ii) without first having killed some civilian for money, a car, etc., etc.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 12:30 PM
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I don't understand what they're living on.


Posted by: Just Plain Jane | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 12:52 PM
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Reminds me of the thrice a cannibal guy in The Fatal Shore.


Posted by: dairy queen | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 1:04 PM
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Wikipedia:
According to Rudolph's own writings, he survived during his years as a fugitive by camping in the woods, gathering acorns and salamanders, pilfering vegetables from gardens, stealing grain from a grain silo, and raiding dumpsters in a nearby town.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 1:10 PM
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These two just don't seem like the hunter-gatherer type.


Posted by: Just Plain Jane | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 1:12 PM
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What do Hermey and Yukon Cornelius say?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 1:13 PM
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6: but surely no one actually believes that. He had sympathisers who were looking after him, just like Osama.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 1:15 PM
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Was going to just say what ajay said in 9 but I think it was a lot of that and a bit of 6. Also wasn't Rudolph an outdoorsman? In which case 7: These guys don't seem the type.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 1:18 PM
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Was going to just say what ajay said in 9 but I think it was a lot of that and a bit of 6. Also wasn't Rudolph an outdoorsman? In which case 7: These guys don't seem the type.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 1:18 PM
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But I wasn't going to say it twice.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 1:19 PM
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Wouldn't you think that if they'd made it this long, it's because they got to a friend/ally's house, and they're in a guest bedroom somewhere? I'm figuring they're not still in the woods.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 1:27 PM
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All of the sightings have been sightings of two guys together. Also, their pictures are always posted together. If they split up and leave upstate New York, they'they probably won't be recognized. It's a big country. They could be on the loose for years.


Posted by: unimaginative | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 1:37 PM
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Didn't they find a bloody boot? I think they're running like crazy from one cabin to the next grabbing what they can and hiding out wherever they can find good cover. Their plan fell apart when their ride got cold feet and they didn't have a plan B.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 1:37 PM
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Is Tommy Lee Jones on the case yet?


Posted by: AcademicLurker | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 1:47 PM
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Would there be any advantage to them heading north to Akwesasne and trying to cross the border undetected there (or really anywhere along the St. Lawrence if they can swim)? There's always been lots of smuggling there, and no love lost with the governments on either side. It's not too far away.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 1:56 PM
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15.1 demands to be read in a Cockney copper voice. Didn't they find a bloody boot? Of course they bloody did you stupid slags!
In fact I might just use that mental voice for all Barry's comments from now on.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 1:56 PM
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You were only supposed to blow the bloody boot off!


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 1:57 PM
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Sorry.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 1:57 PM
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Well good then because that's how I wrote it.

And reminds me it's high time I gave Get Carter another watch.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 2:06 PM
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And The Italian Job, of course.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 2:07 PM
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18.last In fact, I endorse and encourage that. Either that or old school Italian Brooklyneese.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 2:42 PM
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There was also that fellow in Maine who became a hermit in 1987 or so and lived off of breaking into cabins for 30 years. And I've known a lot of people who've gone off to the woods for awhile without much special training. I mean, this Matt guy -- it's like his whole life is just one sequence of prison escape training. How many people escape from prison even once? Or get kicked out of Mexico for being too high-maintenance of a prisoner?


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 8:28 PM
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That guy's method of living off the woods involved more stealing of propane tanks than is compatible with being an highly sought fugitive.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 8:33 PM
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Shit, this guy gives Florida Man a run for his money.


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 8:35 PM
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25: You could just steal the little green ones.


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 8:35 PM
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19 is making me happy every time I reversed it, though I only know the secondary reference.


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 8:56 PM
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24 is a good point but the Maine hermit wasn't being particularly hunted and IIRC didn't quite a few people know vaguely that he was there? Trickier to live rough when you always have to worry about footprints and thermal signature.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 11:40 PM
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There was also the guy who did the same thing in the Utah desert for I think a shorter period of time but still at least several years.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-23-15 11:42 PM
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There's no ways these guys could survive the winter without some kind of help (which they're not going to have).

So, I am in the Adirondacks right now. My dog woke me up at 4 a.m. by frantically barking at something outside. Could have been a raccoon, a deer, a bear (this is less likely than deer), was almost certainly not a human being and a fugitive from the law. Made me feel a bit nervous, though.


Posted by: Just Plain Jane | Link to this comment | 06-24-15 3:13 AM
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When the day comes that you become a real American and buy something "for protection," make sure it's not a dart gun; those don't seem to bother Ricky Matt, or bears, too much.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-24-15 3:40 AM
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That video footage is alarming. This is one tough fugitive.

He may be no match for the black flies, though.


Posted by: Just Plain Jane | Link to this comment | 06-24-15 3:57 AM
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I've heard of the "Adirondack wave." Maybe the bugs will drive them back to prison.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-24-15 4:00 AM
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There was a hermit living rough and stealing where I grew up for decades.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/after-a-lifetime-spent-on-the-run-in-the-wild-britains-most-elusive-hermit-is-behind-bars-1123140.html

http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/suicide-bid-by-hermit-of-the-woods-court-curb-on-nomad-1.300625

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/HOMELESS+HERMIT+IS+A+SEX+SYMBOL%3B+Women+send+Robert+fan+mail.-a060329677


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 06-24-15 4:04 AM
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"What I want to do now is grow some strawberries. I couldn't do any gardening when I was in the wild."

Do you know what happened to the guy after he got out of chokey?


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 06-24-15 4:19 AM
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re: 36

No idea, I'm afraid. I know the areas described very well, some of the woods mentioned are woods I played in as a kid. I may even have seen his shelters,* but I have no idea what happened next for him.

* we used to come across things in the woods, but whether they were built by kids, or someone else, I've no idea.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 06-24-15 4:23 AM
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Phbbbt, strawberries will grow wild in the woods, my best self a propagators were originally dug in a clump from a logging road verge.

Big ol June bearers, sure.


Posted by: clew | Link to this comment | 06-24-15 12:06 PM
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A second prison worker has been arrested.


Posted by: Just Plain Jane | Link to this comment | 06-25-15 5:43 AM
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Maybe they should see if either of them had Rogue Male checked out of the prison library.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06-25-15 5:55 AM
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Investigators had no conclusive evidence that the inmates took a shotgun from the cabin but were operating as if they were armed, in part because almost every hunting cabin in the North Country had at least one weapon, Major Guess said.
"They put an inordinate amount of weapons and ammunition and other tools in these shared seasonal hunting camps and cabins," he said, adding that an investigation showed that the people who used the camp did not keep an inventory of their firearms. "They can't tell us what is missing and what is not," he said.

Well, sure! I mean, obviously firearms are the sort of thing you just leave lying around in unoccupied remote cabins for months at a time. Not the kind of thing you keep close tabs on at all. I know I'm like that; I keep going out and buying new shotguns and then finding that I've had four at the bottom of my bag and another six or seven kicking around the living room all the time.

Oh, no, wait, that's ballpoints.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 06-25-15 6:05 AM
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The NRA got the state legislature to change state law so they would have standing* to sue Pittsburgh for a law requiring you to report the loss or theft of guns.

* That is, so the NRA could sue before anybody has been arrested for violating this law. They needed that because the law very hard to violate unless you are smuggling weapons. The time limit for reporting the loss/theft starts when the owner notices the gun is gone. There is no requirement that the owner actually secure, monitor, or otherwise attend to the weapon.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06-25-15 6:10 AM
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The NRA wants mentally ill spousal abusers with restraining orders against them to be able to buy guns without a waiting period or background check. They are completely nuts.


Posted by: togolosh | Link to this comment | 06-25-15 6:21 AM
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The law in 42 was just
overturned.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06-25-15 8:45 AM
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Ricky Matt shall paint no more.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-26-15 2:07 PM
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Why the hell would he shoot at a passing motorist from the cabin he was hiding out in? That's just dumb.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 06-26-15 11:56 PM
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And now David Sweat has been (shot and) captured. Kind of anti-climactic, escapees. Next time, your A game, please.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-28-15 1:19 PM
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46: Maybe it's like the scorpion and the frog.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06-28-15 2:05 PM
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They got a good pic out of it. The guy on the left might get some ribbing for mean mugging the camera.


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 06-28-15 8:13 PM
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Based on their trajectory, they might have had the same idea I had in 17.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 06-28-15 10:52 PM
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