Spam King Escapes From Federal Prison

Bobfrankly1 writes "The FBI, IRS, and the Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force are helping the US Marshals search for escaped 'Spam King' Edward 'Eddie' Davidson. He apparently jumped in a car with his wife, changed clothes at home, and hasn't been seen since." Update: 07/24 22:20 GMT by T : It seems that Davidson has been found, victim of a murder-suicide which also left two others dead.

If only

If only there was some way to send an email to everybody in the world with this information.
;-)

He is innocent!

The one-armed man did it!

The FBI press release

Here's [fbi.gov] the FBI press release.

Re:The FBI press release

I'm really glad he did it. Maybe now he'll actually get the punishment he deserves.

On the next Prison Break...

I knew they were hurting for ideas but this is rediculous!

Clothes?

I thought that changing clothes only worked if your wanted level was 2 stars.

Re:Clothes?

I thought that changing clothes only worked if your wanted level was 2 stars.

And the FBI doesn't start chasing you til 5 stars! WTF!

What to do next?

Really, really bad move. Now, instead of two years at summer camp, he will go to many more years of Federal Pound-me-in-the-a$$ Prison. It is really, really hard in today's day and age to avoid being captured, even with a lot of money if you want to live at some decent level. His best bet I think is to go to a foreign country where he could blend in, and live inconspicuously.

Even in some place like Mexico he would be quite a stand out if he flashed cash, and in the US you'd ultimately fall temptation to going to the local drugstore and risk being nabbed on camera. Any lawyers know if there are any countries which would absolutely refuse extradition? If so, he would still need to 1) get there and 2) transfer enough money to survive, and much more if he couldn't work.

Interestingly enough, I think the next play depends on how many resources the US government will put into capturing him and raising awareness among people. A stint on "Dateline" or widely watched / read program would help any possible acquaintances turn him in.

Re:What to do next?

Nah, Arrested Development taught me that you can escape as many times as you want, and they'll eventually let you go home with an ankle bracelet.

Re:What to do next?

If there is any real justice in this world, an angry mob of sysadmins, email admins, etc. will hunt him down and force feed him a buttload of cialis until he vomits and chokes to death on them.

Re:What to do next?

He probably transferred a chunk of money into a country without an extradition treaty way before he got caught. He had a ton of money floating around before he was busted. It only makes sense that he set up an escape plan in case the spam hit the fan.

Re:What to do next?

In his next prison sentence, his inbox will be stuffed and it will probably be unsolicited.

Federal prison camp?

Why not actually have criminals go to prison?

Re:Federal prison camp?

Because there is a difference between sending spam and committing a violent crime?

There are countries where jail is jail, whether you're a mass murderer or a serial jaywalker. I kinda like living in a country where they're not going to throw me in with the violent offenders if I scam the IRS.

Re:Federal prison camp?

I kinda like living in a country where they're not going to throw me in with the violent offenders if I scam the IRS.

Probably the laws are that way because the law makers are more likely to scam the IRS than to be murderers.

Silver linings

On the upside, I'm pretty sure it's legal to shoot escaped convicts.

21 months?

Who the hell runs from a 2 year bid at a club fed?

Re:21 months?

A moron? I guess we all suspected the kind of people who make their living spamming, but now we have proof.

Oops

Looks like the police spam blocker wasn't configured properly :(

That Bastard

He's going to totally ruin the honor system for everyone else.

Heh

I wonder if they will start taking this more seriously and treating these people like criminals. I mean really...guy steals some property and can get years in a place a little more harsh than this dorm style prison. This guy stole bandwidth, and while it is an intangible thing, ultimately the total cost of his crap cost people FAR more than the value of the crap you could carry out of a pawn shop. I vote send his ass to a real prison.

From the comments from the article (because I know most of you won't read it, and I'm not going to take credit for it). "One can only hope his punishment will be unsolicited male."

Obligatory...

I for one welcome our new king of penis enlargement overlord.

My inbox is full.

In real jail, your inbox is crammed full of unsolicited male.

What an idiot

He had a 21 month sentence in a minimum security work camp a.k.a "Club Fed". Now he gets an automatic 10 years added on for escaping and he'll be doing it in maximum security "Pound me in the ass" prison with the real bad dudes. This guy really isn't very bright.

A Letter

Dear Batman,

You protected Gotham from the personification of fear, the Scarecrow.

You protected Gotham from the personification of chaos, the Joker.

Now a new threat has arisen.

Your people need you now, more than ever for the personification of annoyance, irritation and aggravation has escaped his just imprisonment, the Spam King!

While I know how adverse you are to taking a life even in the most dire circumstances, in this instance I believe I speak for everyone and say that this man is a threat to sanity itself. So, should he threaten innocents with p3n1s en1argm3n7 or heirs to Zimbabwean fortunes, we'll understand if you have no choice but to drop him off of a building or something. Pummeling him to death would be acceptable too.