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Escaped Rapist Found in Best Buy PS3 Camp Out Line

Servbot #42

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i had to post this :lol

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One Best Buy customer thought police were arresting a man for taking a Playstation 3, but it turned out to be the suspected rapist who escaped from University of Kentucky Hospital last night.

William Rick Burdine Sr., 42, of Laurel County, was being discharged from the hospital Wednesday night when he ran from a corrections officer, UK police said.

About noon yesterday, police saw Burdine enter the Best Buy on Nicholasville Road, where they arrested him at the rear loading dock without incident, Lexington police Lt. David Lyons said.

Ricky Simpson, a UK student from Ashland, was in Best Buy yesterday when he saw police arrest a man.

"I thought it was for the Playstation," he said, referring to the video game system being released today.

When Burdine escaped, he was wearing only boxer shorts and white tennis shoes, UK police said.

Lexington police received a call about 10:30 a.m. yesterday that a man fitting Burdine's description was spotted at Nicholasville Road and New Circle Road. Police first went to Lexington Green, where other people said they saw a man matching the same description.

Police called out several units and a helicopter, Lyons said.

Burdine was briefly taken back to UK hospital and taken to Fayette County Detention Center, Lyons said.

Burdine was a Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex inmate.

Burdine was charged in an alleged assault at the Kentucky Welcome Center on Interstate 75 in Whitley County in June 2004. Police said he attacked a woman with a knife, forced her into her car and sexually assaulted her.
 
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eripoy

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Same Best Buy as the BB drive by shooting (which actually worked).

I live 15 minutes away and these stories have been all over the local news.
 

sky

Member
What? False thread title... the story has nothing to do with PS3.

The guy wasn't waiting in line, or even there for a PS3, the only connection is a random observer who thought maybe the guy was being arrested for trying to steal one.
 

Seth C

Member
sky said:
What? False thread title... the story has nothing to do with PS3.

The guy wasn't waiting in line, or even there for a PS3, the only connection is a random observer who thought maybe the guy was being arrested for trying to steal one.

But it WAS at the same Best Buy that had the PS3 BB driveby shooting. :)
 
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