An escaped British prisoner is taunting police and attracting a growing Internet fan base from his Facebook profile, openly musing about moving across the Atlantic.
The convicted burglar’s antics on the popular social networking site haven’t gone unnoticed and police have appealed to his more than 3,800 Facebook friends to help track him down.
Craig “Lazie” Lynch, 28, escaped from a minimum-security prison near the village of Woodbridge in southern England three months ago. Since then, he’s been regularly updating his Facebook page with ungrammatical digs at police, as well as pictures showing him holding a “wanted” sign or making obscene gestures at the camera.
“i aint handin myself in,” Lynch wrote in one post Tuesday. “why am i going to do their job for them. What do they get payed for. And does anyone have a cannon, i need firing over the atlantic.”
Associated Press
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