Escaped Con Teases Cops on Facebook

1,000-plus fans follow 'rude' posts by UK man
By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff
Posted Dec 29, 2009 2:56 PM CST
Escaped Con Teases Cops on Facebook
Craig Lynch offers a message to police.   (Facebook)

A prisoner in the UK who flew the coop in September isn’t keeping a low profile—instead, he’s got one on Facebook. Craig “Lazie” Lynch has been posting photos of himself flipping the bird at police as he sends messages to more than a thousand supporters, the Daily Mail reports. “I beat their f---n system and i love it,” he told fans. “I love you all.” Lynch was near the end of a 7-year term for burglary when he escaped.
(More Craig Lynch stories.)

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