MAN ESCAPES PRISON, HEADS TO BURGER KING

Jerry Mercado, 25, escaped from the Robinson Correctional Institution in Enfield, Connecticut in early January. He escaped through an unlocked door in his dormitory unit. He then scaled a fence and hid underneath a car parked at the prison. An hour later, he was caught on a surveillance camera at an Enfield Burger King – still wearing his prison attire – where a Burger King customer offered to buy him lunch. He also used the customer’s phone to call his mother, telling her that he had been released from prison – which was a lie. She came to retrieve him, allowed him to change clothes, and brought him to her home in Hartford. Corrections officers realized Mercado was missing around three hours after he first escaped. Mercado’s own mother suspected something was wrong and called the prison to report that her son was out of jail, but was hung up on by an employee who cited an “emergency” at the facility. After 10 days on the lam, Mercado was apprehended in Canton, Georgia, and subsequently returned to prison in Connecticut.
* He told his mom a Whopper.
* Escape from prison, head to Burger King. There’s next year’s Super Bowl ad.
* What the heck was the Burger King customer thinking? Nice costume?
* He would have headed to Arby’s, but that’s too much like prison food.
* “Would you like five more years with that?”
* Mom called the jail? No Mother’s Day card for you!