Found this from Metro.co.uk but originally heard it on The Russell Brand Show;

"Authorities in Arkansas say an inmate escaped a county jail and left behind a rose fashioned out of toilet paper because he felt sorry for breaking out.
Luis Camacho-Mendoza was recaptured a day later in a home in the town of Van Buren after police received a tip.
Investigator Ken Howard said Camacho-Mendoza was found hiding in a closet in a pile of clothes with a pillowcase over his head.
"But he wasn't hiding too good because you could see the outline of his head in the pillow case," Howard said. "We all grabbed him pretty quick and he didn't seem to be resisting.
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When the inmate was discovered missing, authorities also found the flower, Howard said.
"When we asked him about that, he said he felt sorry for the captain for escaping," Howard said. "(The flower) looked pretty nice."

Wentworth Miller, eat your heart out.

After reading the Monday edition of The West Australian, I noticed an all too common trick used by the media.

This would be the photo of a grieving family, heads hung in sorrow, paraded before the photo lense. I, for one, am sick and tired of it. I have no doubt that a family is currently in the proccess of mourning for a loved one or family member, but to go in front of a camera and display these emotions in a staged fashion - and for what!

Whenever I see a photo like this attached to newspaper stories I cringe and personally lose all sense of sympathy for the victims. Once these photos are used the story seems unbelievable and almost as if the family has an secondary motive.

Why do the families need stage these photo shoots, why does the journo feel it will add to the story and what the hell is the newspaper doing by publishing them?