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As(s)-inine inmate | First World Problems

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd

By News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd

Published May 27, 2016

As(s)-inine inmate | First World Problems
Convicted triple-murder inmate Kon Georgiou, housed in Australia's Goulburn Jail, was charged in February with hiding a cellphone in his rectum, but managed to hold out for 12 days (almost 300 hours) before finally "releasing" the evidence. Guards, certain it was a phone on the X-ray (and not the residue from recent surgery that Georgiou claimed), had confidently resisted "going in" after it.



At an estate sale in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, in February, a couple in Wilmington bid successfully on Delaware license plate number "14," which went for $325,000. According to WCAU-TV's report, paying exorbitant sums for low license plate numbers "is a Delaware thing" (and has been mentioned in News of the Weird previously). [The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 2-24- 2016] [Wilmington News Journal, 2-16-2016]