Texas inmates are the most creative....this just in

jdean · #1 (**permalink**) 08-08-2009, 07:55 AM

HOUSTON – An obese inmate in Texas has been charged after officials learned he had a gun hidden under flabs of his own flesh.

Twenty-five-year-old George Vera was charged with possession of a firearm in a correctional facility after he told a guard at the Harris County Jail about the unloaded 9mm pistol. The Houston Chronicle reported Thursday that Vera was originally arrested on charges of selling illegal copies of compact discs.

The 500-pound man was searched during his arrest and again at a city jail and the county jail, but officers never found the weapon in his rolls of skin. Vera admitted having the gun during a shower break at the county jail.

LREYBURN · #2 (**permalink**) 08-08-2009, 10:20 AM

I Wonder is he had a Texas Consealed Handgun License.

vector1 · #3 (**permalink**) 08-08-2009, 11:45 AM

sounds like a chevy chase movie, instead of the soap on a rope dropping on the shower floor there is the gun on a rope.

jdean · #4 (**permalink**) 08-08-2009, 02:22 PM

Yeah I guess that's one way to refuse to pick up the soap!

madmaxx · #5 (**permalink**) 08-08-2009, 02:35 PM

I know a couple years ago Houston was classified as the fattest city in Amercia. I live in Houston and the norm is obese not fat. Bewilders me how they can stand in the median at a light weiging 300 lbs and still hold up the beggers sign. I bet the guy forgot he even had a gun.