Prisoner caught with grenade — hidden where?


An inmate at an El Salvador jail was caught with a hand grenade stuffed up his backside — a novel attempt to disguise his apparent escape plans.


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An inmate at an El Salvador jail was caught with a hand grenade stuffed up his backside — a novel attempt to disguise his apparent escape plans.

Guards at the San Francisco Gotera prison outside the capital San Salvador found the V40 grenade, about the size of a golf ball, lodged up the man’s rectum during a security clampdown, a prison spokesman said on Thursday.

They also caught another 16 inmates who each swallowed a mobile phone.

“We’ll have to expel the objects and if they won’t come out we’ll have to perform surgery in hospital,” said Alberto Uribe, a spokesman for the El Salvador prison service.

There’s strange behavior made acceptable by being in prison and then — there’s really strange behavior.

Posted: Fri - March 2, 2007 at 09:15 AM