Unbelievable!

Unbelievable! I just find this scary, to say the least. It seems that if you are jailed in Kentucky, and have a friend who can send a fax from a grocery store than you can be released from prison! From the article published on April 22nd:

"HICKMAN, Kentucky — Officials mistakenly released a prisoner from a Kentucky facility after receiving a phony fax that ordered him freed, and it took them nearly two weeks to realize it.

The fax contained grammatical errors, was not typed on letterhead and was sent from a local grocery store. The fax falsely claimed that the Kentucky Supreme Court "demanded" Timothy Rouse be released."

The story goes on to say that it is not required that the origin of the fax be verified at the time of receipt. I am just in awe of the stupidity on this one. I am completely flabbergasted. I don't even work in the prison or judicial system anywhere, and I check the origin of faxes I receive at work if they look funny.

Maybe the lack of state letterhead, and the grammatical errors aren't abnormal in Kentucky...

Luckily, the man went to his mother's and was recaptured almost two weeks after being released.