This story is incredible. I was going to just post a link, but there were other things on the page that I did not want to direct people to.
The human spirit yearns to be free. For one Canadian inmate, that spirit seems to have been working in tandem with his stomach.
Michel "Big Mike" Lapointe was released almost three years early from his five-year sentence in a Canadian prison because he was simply too fat for his cell. The 450-pound former drug gang member could not sit down in the chair provided in his Montreal cell, and his body protruded six inches off both sides of the bed.
Authorities said in a letter to Lapointe: "You have been detained for more than 25 months and your prison conditions are difficult because of your health." Two other jails rejected requests to transfer him.
For his part, Lapointe sounded relieved to be sprung: "I'm going to have a proper bed and finally have a chair I can sit in," he said. "I want a normal life. I've done some stupid things and I've paid for them."
Hopefully, the "normal life" Big Mike wants will include fruits and vegetables.
If not, though, he can always find inspiration in our gallery of the world's weirdest bacon products.
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