Snake Plissken, eat your heart out.
I saw this video clip on the news last night and nearly coughed up my Kush. It’s so insane, I had to share it.
To summarize this funny, soon-to-be-classic clip, here’s an excerpt from the New York Daily News:
“A prisoner bolted from custody near a Staten Island precinct Wednesday and led cops on a wild chase before he was nabbed a short time later, police sources said.
Naquan Thompson was linked to 17 other prisoners who were being led out of the 120th Precinct when he slipped his left hand from a cuff and made a run for it.
Thompson, 22, bolted down Wall St. toward the ferry terminal, where he leaped off a ramp leading to the Staten Island Railway station and broke his ankle. He ducked into a conductor’s booth in a train on Track 3, sources said. That’s where cops arrested him about 15 minutes after the daring escape. Charges were against him were pending, police said. He was hospitalized for the broken ankle.
Thompson was headed to court to face charges for a December robbery on Staten Island, police sources said. His court date was delayed.”
The NYPD did some nifty damage control because it was initially reported that Mr. Thompson hid out for 30 minutes, not 15 like the Daily News claims. It was also reported that the cops were unaware he escaped until the cameraman pointed it out. Staten Island, eh? Can we somehow link this nigga to Wu-Tang? Perhaps he was under the influence of Ghostface Killah’s joint, “Run.”
Either way, Naquan Thompson is The Spizzy’s New Yorker of the Week.
i tak my hat off to this guy all the times i thought of running from police…love it
word, me too. how he slipped out of the cuffs is anybody’s guess.
i bet the cops whupped his ass once they caught him, though.
That cat was booking!!! LOL!!! Run Run! Yo you wild for even finding this ish! He definitely deserves a spot on the US Track team!!!
Holla!!!
LOL He may give Usain Bolt a literal run for the money.
Let a few cops chase behind ‘im on the race track & he may break a few Olympic Records… during this escape, the only thing he broke was his ankle.