nice escape

It is cucumber-time. But the news that the pope has signed a music contract with the same record-label that also produced Snoop Dog albums (can not wait to see the video clip ... well ... maybe I can) has been put to the background by the escape(s) of a whole bunch of Belgian criminals from jail and court.

And for once I ignore the fumbling of those that should serve and protect us. For what I heard today was very amusing. The two most dangerous criminals made their escape to Morocco. They blend in very well there, having both the Belgian and Moroccan nationality. Or so they thought. Only, Morocco does take crime very serious. One of them is already caught. And - important - Morocco refuses to send him back to Belgium. As a Moroccan national he will be put on trial and serve time in Morocco. Lovely. He's looking at 20 years. Lovely. And he will serve every single day of those 20 years. Absolutely brilliant. And he clears a space in the over-populated Belgian jails. Can somebody give this man a medal ?

Maybe number two will even do better. Apparently he's already been wounded and considered armed and dangerous. In Morocco that means that with just the right luck he'll soon run into a police bullet.

O, did I mention the fact that the man breaking these two (and one other) out of jail is now himself in jail ? The helicopter he hijacked was not capable of lifting him and the escapees. So they made him stay behind. So sad ...

One thing is for sure. There may be an over-population of our jails, but definitely not in the brains-department.