August 14, 2009

"Flight risk," the expanded definition

Which includes Edward Wayne Edwards, who is 76 years old, is five-feet-eight-inches tall and weighs 280 pounds, suffers from diabetes, leukemia, and heart ailments, is on oxygen and moves about confined to a specially constructed wheelchair.*
Wherefore, bail is set at $2 million.

* Rotors by Sikorsky.

3 comments:

Display Name said...

Brought to town on a private plane. You can hardly walk down the sidewalk around here due to all the reporters doing stand-ups in front of the court house.

illusory tenant said...

Good gummint health care in jail, at least.

capper said...

Well, you know about those specially constructed wheel chairs.