Fugitive On Run For 17 Years Found Living In Cave By a Drone (bbc.com) 51
Chinese police have arrested a fugitive who'd been on the run for 17 years, after they used drones to spot his cave hideout. The BBC reports: The 63-year old, named Song Jiang by the police, had been jailed for trafficking women and children but escaped from a prison camp in 2002. He had been living in a tiny cave cut off from human interaction for years. Yongshan police received clues about Song's whereabouts in early September, they said on their WeChat account. Those clues led them to the mountains behind his hometown in Yunnan province in south-west China. After regular searches failed to find anything, authorities sent additional drones to help the officers. The drones eventually spotted a blue-colored steel tile on a steep cliff as well as traces of household rubbish nearby. According to the police, the man had been living in seclusion for so long that it was difficult for him to communicate with the officers. He has been sent back to jail.
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Re:You might ask which is worse (Score:4, Insightful)
Everyone else knows solitude over forced organ donation.
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Re: You might ask which is worse (Score:2)
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A lifetime of solitude in the mountains or a lifetime of unceasing racket from other prisoners.
Well, we was "found living in a cave by a drone," so he at least had a toy to play with.
Was It a Javert model 2019 ? (Score:2)
N/T
Spock, I found Khan! (Score:1)
It's that red shirt that made his camp stand out. Trek had it right!
Living In Cave By a Drone ... (Score:2)
... and the police had been looking for a van down by the river [youtube.com].
"named Song Jiang by the police," (Score:2)
What was his original name?
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-noob noob
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Sum Ting.
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Poem Wang
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Retirement (Score:3)
My retirement plans are looking crumbling before my eyes.
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Just mind your trash...
Minority Report (Score:2)
Found by aliens (Score:2)
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Thank Goodness (Score:5, Funny)
Now he will no longer be a danger to society that he abandoned!
Re:Thank Goodness (Score:5, Interesting)
Now he will no longer be a danger to society that he abandoned!
"... had been jailed for trafficking women and children"
1. the authorities were not sure where he was after he escaped. he could be back to business as usual for all they knew.
2. most societies expect consequences for wrong actions. Traffic children -> go to prison. Easy to understand formula. Or in this case, go to a hard labor camp.
3. escaping responsibility and leaving society is not the same as rehabilitating oneself.
P.S. the above assumes his conviction is valid. The Chinese government has a pretty abysmal track record when it comes to putting away innocent people. I wouldn't be surprised if they score 50% or worse on this.
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It can't be both?
Living in a cave by a drone? (Score:3)
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That, or don't chop off words. It said "found living in a cave by a drone". As far as dangling modifiers go, this isn't the worst offender, and the only way to fix it is to restructure the phrase entirely ("found by a drone living in a cave" isn't any better).
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Try posting that as a title for a comment, much less a headline. Headlines are forced to be short.
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Fugitive On Run Living In Cave For 17 Years Found By a Drone
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Pretty sure that is actually wrong. The fugitive has been on the run for 17 years; the story doesn't say he's been living in the cave for 17 years.
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Tries to write headlines that can't be misunderstood.
He has been sent back to jail. (Score:2)
Why?
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Exactly! The children he was trafficking are already grown up, right PPH?
Ameteur fugitive! (Score:3)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
This guy just lived in a rather normal and cozy house not far from his home town for 43 years.
Captured in 2006, his latest known picture was from 1959!
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Much easier if your job lets you work remotely.
Ttitle doesn't say what the author thinks it does (Score:1)
What was the drone doing by a cave? (Score:2)
Fugitive On Run For 17 Years Found Living In Cave By a Drone
So was he found in a cave... that was next to a drone. Or did a drone find him in the cave?