Timothy Midgett, the first inmate to escape San Francisco County Jail in a dozen years, did so via a plan in which the details did not overlap.
While taking out the trash, he ran out the door. And kept going. There you go.
Midgett was this week spotted at a homeless shelter and re-arrested by sheriff's deputies; he has since been hit with felony escape charges atop the 12-month narcotics stint he was 11 months through when he, inexplicably, bolted.
The escapee's two weeks of freedom are far more than most prisoners who elude county jail here go on to enjoy. Most are recaptured within days or even hours. But most manage to go a bit further than Midgett. After fleeing 850 Bryant Street, he turned up at 525 Fifth Street.
How far is that?
Not far. Per Google maps, it's a five-minute walk of only 0.3 miles. In fact, it's a nearly straight shot between the jail Midgett fled and homeless shelter where he decamped.
As we wrote this week, Midgett's caper doesn't match up to the tale of Ronald McIntosh and Samatha Lopez. After McIntosh escaped Dublin's Federal Correctional Institution in 1986, he flew a commandeered helicopter into the exercise yard to pick up his belle, Lopez.
The two were caught 10 days later while purchasing wedding rings at the Mall. Midgett, to his credit, stayed out longer than that.
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