> Through a series of steep escalations, the case had passed to officers from counter-terrorism command...<p>Skimming through the article - the police agencies, justice system, etc. poured an utterly ridiculous number hours and pounds into the case of an old homeless man, who'd dug himself a tiny "hobbit hole" to live in. Those organizations need to be replaced with some <i>sane</i>, reality-oriented ones. And maybe the leaders of the old organizations should be reassigned - to standing sentry duty on the South Sandwich Islands. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Georgia_and_the_South_Sandwich_Islands#South_Sandwich_Islands" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Georgia_and_the_South_Sa...</a> After all, some dangerous terrorists in a balloon might try to sneak in and steal one of Her Majesties' glaciers, then flood London by dropping the glacier in the Thames. But with a crack group of counter-terrorist sentries keeping watch 24/7, we'll all be safe from that...<p>/s
Currently on the run from prison, he escaped about 6 months after this article<p>Here's the bit of <i>PVC</i> pipe he got 5 years for, I doubt it could work -<p><a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/man-jailed-for-five-years-after-stashing-homemade-gun-in-hampstead-heath-a4219096.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/man-jailed-for-five-ye...</a><p>It's sad every time you hear these stories about people living in underground car parks they have dry walled off or unused store rooms, for some reason society hammers them.<p>All the kids books I ever read, kids would run away from home and do this. It was seen as independence and exploring. Different times I guess. "My Side of the Mountain", "The Prince of Central Park", "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" also the "Three Investigators" and their hidden hideout.