KY Psych Ward P0wn3d by Fax

So if you get committed to a psych ward in Kentucky and can’t get out, what do you do?  Easy.  Have a buddy go use a public fax machine and send a fax to the mental hospital authorizing your release in the name of the State Supreme Court.  Correct spelling is strictly optional.

From Fox News Here, with thanks to Hot Air for the tip.

Officials mistakenly released a prisoner from a Kentucky facility after receiving a phony fax that ordered him freed, and it took them nearly two weeks to realize it.

The fax contained grammatical errors, was not typed on letterhead and was sent from a local grocery store. The fax falsely claimed that the Kentucky Supreme Court “demanded” Timothy Rouse be released.

Rouse, 19, is charged with beating an elderly man and was at the Kentucky Correctional & Psychiatric Center in La Grange for a mental evaluation. He was released April 6 after officials received the fake court order.

Lexington police arrested Rouse at his mother’s home Thursday evening.

Prison officials did not notice that the fax came from the grocery store because policies did not require checking the source of a faxed order, said the LaGrange facility’s director, Greg Taylor.

Wow.  You perpetrate a daring break from Bedlam with a forged fax.  So where do you hide to keep from going back to the mental hospital?  Your mom’s house?  What, is he crazy?  Oh yeah….
Filed under “cyber” for hacking idiots with a fax.