While we are waiting to see how the President's speech played in Peoria, here is a useful tale from France:
Embarrassed officials were at a loss to explain how Jean-Pierre Treiber, 45, a double murder suspect, managed to elude detection in the box he had built himself at a workshop in the high security prison of Auxerre, Burgundy.
With its hidden human cargo, the box was loaded with dozens of others onto a lorry for delivery to the Yonne region, southeast of Paris.
During the 100-mile journey, he broke free and leapt from the lorry. The driver only realised there was a problem once he had reached his destination, when he spotted a hole in the tarpaulin covering the boxes, some of which were flattened.
I understand that the "officials" are embarrassed. But isn't this thing self-explanatory? The heck with vulgar and well-worn strategies of the past like digging tunnels or building a hang glider and soaring over the walls. Jean-Pierre Treiber mailed himself out of the hoosegow. How do you write "handle with care" en Français.
Police have sealed off roads and a huge area of woodland in the hunt for Treiber using helicopters and sniffer dogs.
Maybe they should let the French Post Office look for him. But here is what I really find disturbing:
Treiber has been in prison awaiting trial since 2004, charged with murdering French actor Roland Giraud's daughter Geraldine, and her friend Katia Lherbier. He is due to stand trial early next year in a case that shocked France.
Treiber apparently committed a grizzly pair of murders, and I hope they catch him. But six years in prison while awaiting trial? What if he didn't do it? That ain't swift justice.
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