Breakout! 50 Escape from Sihanoukville Rehab

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Cambodia News (Sihanoukville): On November 21, 2020, at 11 pm, 50 youths who are drug addicts broke the window and escaped from the Keo Phos Rehabilitation Center in Sihanoukville. The police collaborated with the royal gendarmerie in Prey Nub district and Stueng Hav district to capture 7 escapees, but are still looking for the rest of them.

The police reported that there were 103 youths in Keo Phos rehabilitation center, who were just transferred from Phnom Penh rehabilitation center on November 20, 2020. They are all drug addicts who will be helped to give up drugs and given some training to get a job.
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Obviously didn't like the job prospects
I'm standing up, so I must be straight.
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As a team building exercise, they seem to have done fairly well. Maybe they’ve ‘grown’ while incarcerated?



Alternatively, watching the rabid behaviour of zombies in World War Z, desperate for their next flesh-fix, possibly a better set of bars next time?
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I don't think that they came to believe a power greater than themselves would restore them to sanity 🤔🤔

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Somebody probably told them they would get all the free drugs they wanted, if they agreed to join the rehab program

Didn't want to stay, once they realised it wasn't true :)
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jaynewcastle wrote: Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:19 pm Somebody probably told them they would get all the free drugs they wanted, if they agreed to join the rehab program

Didn't want to stay, once they realised it wasn't true :)
I believe these government rehabs are compulsory and punitive
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Sambodia wrote: Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:29 pm
jaynewcastle wrote: Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:19 pm Somebody probably told them they would get all the free drugs they wanted, if they agreed to join the rehab program

Didn't want to stay, once they realised it wasn't true :)
I believe these government rehabs are compulsory and punitive
That's the idea but as far as I know they are often a shambles with mental cases mixed in the same unit as derelicts and druggies etc. They don't even have big gates or walls, there have been loads of reports of people just skipping out once they've had enough.
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John Bingham wrote: Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:45 pm
Sambodia wrote: Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:29 pm
jaynewcastle wrote: Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:19 pm Somebody probably told them they would get all the free drugs they wanted, if they agreed to join the rehab program

Didn't want to stay, once they realised it wasn't true :)
I believe these government rehabs are compulsory and punitive
That's the idea but as far as I know they are often a shambles with mental cases mixed in the same unit as derelicts and druggies etc. They don't even have big gates or walls, there have been loads of reports of people just skipping out once they've had enough.
Right, not sure if that method is better or the one in Burma where they put the addicts in a hole in the ground for a week to let them detox.
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Sambodia wrote: Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:58 pm
John Bingham wrote: Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:45 pm
Sambodia wrote: Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:29 pm
jaynewcastle wrote: Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:19 pm Somebody probably told them they would get all the free drugs they wanted, if they agreed to join the rehab program

Didn't want to stay, once they realised it wasn't true :)
I believe these government rehabs are compulsory and punitive
That's the idea but as far as I know they are often a shambles with mental cases mixed in the same unit as derelicts and druggies etc. They don't even have big gates or walls, there have been loads of reports of people just skipping out once they've had enough.
Right, not sure if that method is better or the one in Burma where they put the addicts in a hole in the ground for a week to let them detox.
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Freightdog wrote:Alternatively, watching the rabid behaviour of zombies in World War Z, desperate for their next flesh-fix, possibly a better set of bars next time?
The bars look fine. Not bent or dented. The window sill fixtures are a different question altogether.

But it was a great team building exercise.

No filing marks at all on the bars. Some genius must have realized that it’s just held at 4 points into the drywall by some cheap screws...


... and they were right.

Just a coordinated group of people giving one strong yank to set it free.

The movies couldn’t have done better.
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