Pardon our Laughter

Stories like these just make us laugh:

• A suspected mail thief is recovering after he jumped from a third-floor apartment window as Chicago cops were closing in. Cops recovered a U.S. Postal Service master key, stolen mail, and other evidence as paramedics scooped Jamal Campbell, 30, from a yard in the 1200 block of West 54th Street last Sunday afternoon, officials said.

  Officers responded to the neighborhood around 12:30 p.m. after 911 callers reported that a man was walking in and out of residential buildings. At least one caller saw the man use a master key to open a bank of mailboxes.

  A woman flagged down a couple of the cops and directed them to the thief. The officers quickly located Campbell in the vestibule of a building. He was sorting through mail from an open mailbox, according to their report. Campbell bolted to the third floor and the officers followed him up the stairs, the report said. As the cops neared the third floor, they heard a loud banging noise and the sound of glass breaking as Campbell kicked in a vacant apartment’s door and jumped from a bedroom window, the police said.

We know a couple of stories where suspects either didn't remember what floor they were on (or were just so desperate to escape arrest) that they went out seventh, eighth, and eleventh story windows in assorted project buildings. It turns out that none of them could fly.

We laughed then, too.

This picture from the attached CWB post is also greatly amusing:

Maybe next time, make the red arrow "bounce" where he hit the ground?