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The much publicized account of an inmate who supposedly thrashed 12 guards and fled from a St. Louis city jail last week is in not all that it's been hyped to be. Here's the real story from our alternative weekly The Riverfront Times:
Turns out Lorenzo Pollard -- the so-called Nunchuck Ninja who escaped from the City Workhouse Friday -- might not need that Hollywood agent after all.
As embarrassed-sounding city officials admitted today in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Pollard, an inmate at the City Workhouse, did not exactly fend off "more than a dozen" jailors while flashing a set of hand-made nunchucks, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle-style.
Instead, the man http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2011/09/lorenzo_pollard_nunchuck_ninja_workhouse.phponce portrayed as having the powers of a superhero merely "chiseled" through a glass block window, working away for minutes on end -- the P-D suggested optimistically that it was "less than four minutes" -- while a dozen or so guards stood by watching."
Read more: http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2011/09/lorenzo_pollard_nunchuck_ninja_workhouse.php
Turns out Lorenzo Pollard -- the so-called Nunchuck Ninja who escaped from the City Workhouse Friday -- might not need that Hollywood agent after all.
As embarrassed-sounding city officials admitted today in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Pollard, an inmate at the City Workhouse, did not exactly fend off "more than a dozen" jailors while flashing a set of hand-made nunchucks, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle-style.
Instead, the man http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2011/09/lorenzo_pollard_nunchuck_ninja_workhouse.phponce portrayed as having the powers of a superhero merely "chiseled" through a glass block window, working away for minutes on end -- the P-D suggested optimistically that it was "less than four minutes" -- while a dozen or so guards stood by watching."
Read more: http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2011/09/lorenzo_pollard_nunchuck_ninja_workhouse.php
