How to Escape From Plastic Handcuffs
Both of the above videos are for entertainment purposes only. One should never attempt to escape handcuffs when cuffed by the police -- no matter how embarrassing the outcome.
Raw Video: Embarrassing Escape Attempt
An ill-conceived escape attempt outside a New Zealand courthouse ended when the would-be fugitives, handcuffed together and blinded with pepper spray, ran on opposite sides of a lamppost.
Police were escorting the two prisoners into Hastings District Court this week when the men made a break for it, Senior Sgt. Dave Greig told The Times in London.
"They fell over and they were sprayed with pepper spray. But they got up and ran out of the court onto the street, across the road to a car park," he said.
"That's where they met the pole. It was all over, rover."
One man's lawyer said his client was anxious about being sent to prison and got a case of the "collywobbles."
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The collywobbles
Meaning
A state of intestinal disorder, usually accompanied by a rumbling stomach. For example, 'butterflies in the stomach'.
Origin
The origin isn't known for certain.
Colly is an English dialect word meaning coal dust. Blackbirds were hence known as colly birds. The song Twelve days of Christmas is usually sung as 'my true love sent to me, four calling birds'... but the actual line is 'four colly birds'. Colly-wobbles could have derived from indisposition caused by breathing coal dust.
It is more likely that this is a nonsense word formed from colic and wobble. The earliest citation of it is from Pierce Egan's edition of Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1823:
"Collywobbles, the gripes."
The nonsense origin is supported by two other early references, clearly used with comic intent.
- Punch October 1841: "To keep him from getting the collywobbles in his pandenoodles."
- Cuthbert Bede The Adventures of Mister Verdant Green, 1853: "A touch of the mulligrubs in your collywobbles?"
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