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Jailbird Heads to Hooters

Posted Aug 31, 07 6:17 PM CDT in Arts & Living,  US    Editor's Choice

(Newser) – A convict who managed to extract himself from the county jail in an Indiana town Sunday while taking out the trash was caught yesterday after he was unable to resist bragging about the caper to new-found friends at a nearby Hooters. Charles Smith, the 56-year-old escapee, wasn't even missed until a local citizen spotted him, garbed in his orange jail shirt and tan pants, outside a grocery store.

That’s when jail officials were notified that they might be missing an inmate, but they lost his trail until he spilled his story within earshot of the Hooters staff several days later. Smith, who was jailed for public intoxication, is now also charged with felony escape and back behind bars on a $20,000 bond

Source Munster (Ind.) Times

Hooters restaurant waitress Candise Brock presents Chris Wright, left, and Joe Pauly with commemorative beads at the original restaurant in Clearwater, Florida, on May 20, 2003. The chain, which now h   (KRT Photos)
Hooters restaurant founders Ed Droste, left, and Dennis Johnson at the original restaurant in Clearwater, Florida, on May 20, 2003. The chain, which now has more than 330 restaurants worldwide, is cel   (KRT Photos)
BUENOS AIRES-- Despite the busty, scantily clad waitresses that are the U.S. restaurant chain's trademark, only a handful of tables are occupied at Hooters where half a dozen Hooters girls hang around   (KRT Photos)
Hooters To Open Its First Casino Hotel   (Getty Images)
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