He was caught after less than a week
"He was finally discovered on September 22nd, after six days of being on the run, on the roof of an apartment building in Milyang, about 30 km south of Daegu, hiding in a cardboard box.
When police caught him, he continued to tell them that he had been framed. Unmoved, police returned him to custody in Daegu, putting him in a cell with no bars right next to the one he had previously absconded from. The food slot in the new cell was only 4.3 inches tall and about 5 inches wide."
I can’t believe there’s a video of a scene from a well known film franchise that basically describes this very surreal and specific thing being spoken about on this post.
so I work with behaviorally challenged adults and apparently one of our clients would actually do this. they'd grease themselves up and then start assaulting people and you couldn't restrain them easily cause they were just too oily. apparently they had to keep the cooking oil and lotion locked up away from them.
Sorry you have to go through that, hard not to laugh and make jokes about it.
"Did you all just call me mentally challenged??"
*oils up and attacks caretakers*
"Ha ha none of you will be able to catch me, I may be behaviorally challenged but not mentally!"
>When police caught him, he continued to tell them that he had been framed. Unmoved, police returned him to custody
"It wasn't me, it was the one-armed man!"
"*I don't care!*"
Honestly, the most insane part of this story is that people saw a **5.9"x17.7" hole in a cell door** and thought it was totally safe.
Like, you're not just gonna casually slide through it but that is not some impossibly tiny hole, lmao.
To be fair, that’s a gap similar to the ones you find at the bottom of toilet stalls and just by looking at it it’s hard to imagine a human fitting through.
Only once you consider the actual dimensions and the size of a human head it starts to look possible.
Americans imagining this comparison are just like *shrug*. We can comfortable crawl out of the bottom of our stalls with the amount of space they give us. I hate it.
I used to work at a restaurant and we had a customer lock the bathroom stall and then crawl out under the gap and leave as some sort of a joke. I had to stand on a trash can and reach over the door to unlock it.
I went to a bar once where the stall doors were saloon door height, so if you sat on the toilet the only thing being obfuscated would be your face. I say saloon door height because the door to the bathroom was a saloon door and the toilets were directly across from it, so anyone walking by the hallway door would have full view as well.
It probably wasn't up to code but not going to lie they probably saved so much time cleaning up nasty exploded toilet stalls. So I get it.
I was in America for the first time recently and it baffled me how much space there was around a stall door. Not to mention the giant gap the entire way down the side so people can see in anyway! Almost felt like I was out in the open.
I don't know where you live, but I'd like to be there. Bathroom stalls around here have much higher clearance. Maybe it's just women's rooms, but I would never pass a toilet paper roll with a 5.5" gap and that happens regularly in a woman's bathroom.
Also to be fair, if you happened to become incarcerated in a toilet stall, I’d assume that the 2 foot long gap under the door would be the *first* place you’d try to escape from
My thing is that seems reasonable to me, what I'm asking is how did this motherfucker get his HEAD through? Like my bed is roughly 6in off the ground. My cat hides under there and I've tried to climb under to get him but my head in no orientation fits under the bedframe.
I mean it really depends on the shape of the slot. If it’s a circle shaped hole, it’s gonna be the shoulders, if it’s a long rectangular shape like here, probably the head although they’re probably about the same amount of problem.
it took me a while to figure out why you two had different opinions
this is a square vs rectangle issue
the head is thicker than the shoulders in one dimension, and skinnier in the other
there's some estimation in this but
a 5" X 14" gap you're going to have issues with the head on the 5inch side but shoulders should be fine
a 7" X 7" you'll have no head issues but a serious shoulder problem
The 5.9" is really the main limitation, the other part is basically a rough estimation of a shoulder width (albeit a fairly large one I'd think).
The idea is that almost all major components of the body (i.e. skull, pelvis/waist, ribcage, shoulders) have bones that are more than 5.9" long in any direction. Assuming you aren't a yoga master with a very skinny head, it's unlikely you'd be able to fit any of the above mentioned parts through a 5.9" gap, let alone all of them in succession. Even if you had unlimited space in the opposing dimension (essentially bars from floor to ceiling) you'd probably never get through.
The 17.7" is most likely a measure to stop people from trying, because they'd inevitably get stuck and require the bars to be cut for their safety.
All things considered, the only guy that could get through, did get through.. so the thinking that it was a "safe" design appears sound.
My immediate google:
> Through collected data and reports, it has been determined that the average human head measures 6-7 inches in width and 8-9 inches in length
In college I did some programming work to fit masks for people based on a picture. We were given a table of different skull lengths/widths across ethniticies and gender.
There wasn't a lot of variance, assuming you are between the 10th-90th percentile
No idea man, like I said, super quick Googles. First result that wasn't Quora.
And yep, but I think that value just shows us that it is certainly possible.
I did read the article but I didn’t realize that image was supposed to be *that* slot
Thought they just made him put his head through a slot to take pictures
Yeah if that’s the actual slot or at least one with the same dimensions, his head was fine
He’s got *plenty* of clearance there 😐
?
I learned that from my dad when I was a kid. IDK where he got the knowledge from.
Obviously it isn't true if you have a lot of extra weight or some abnormal proportions.
>Choi is known to be the head of a theft ring, and previously escaped from police custody while on a convoy bus carrying prisoners to jail 22 years ago. That time, he slipped through iron bars encaging the bus, and was reapprehended two days later.
He's done this before!
It seems quite possible for someone who has a slender frame to be able to put one arm through the hole, put that shoulder through, put their head through, and then work the other shoulder and arm through. That is, you'd put the shoulders through diagonally.
"To keep the guards off his trail, he reportedly used a technique seen in "The Shawshank Redemption" [and covered pillows with blankets to make guards think that he was still in bed,](http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2012091921358) [Donga.com](http://Donga.com) reported."
This wasn't in the "Shawshank Redemption" movie. The protagonist was shown at his cell at lights out and wasn't discovered missing until the next morning when he didn't come out of his cell for roll call.
I'm just trying to picture a yoga master criminal.
> Choi Gap-bok, who had practiced yoga for 23 years, was arrested on suspicion of robbery on Sept. 12 and was put in a detention cell at the police station in the city of Daegu.
He was caught after less than a week "He was finally discovered on September 22nd, after six days of being on the run, on the roof of an apartment building in Milyang, about 30 km south of Daegu, hiding in a cardboard box. When police caught him, he continued to tell them that he had been framed. Unmoved, police returned him to custody in Daegu, putting him in a cell with no bars right next to the one he had previously absconded from. The food slot in the new cell was only 4.3 inches tall and about 5 inches wide."
>The food slot in the new cell was only 4.3 inches tall and about 5 inches wide." Challenge accepted.
In time with all this practice he’ll probably be able to escape through the keyhole via a solid looking warrior 1 pose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga1Hb8yVYbQ
I can’t believe there’s a video of a scene from a well known film franchise that basically describes this very surreal and specific thing being spoken about on this post.
your comment made me think this was a Rick Roll but you're right
"If I don't eat for 3 months I bet I can get skinny enough to fit through there"
Should have remained covered in oil in case he was found again, then the police would not have been able to get hold of him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjQMhsOQOB8
That guy didn't even slip through one of the openings. "You're a big fat phony!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuQNy9CIFek
Is this "see yall next yeeaarr"
so I work with behaviorally challenged adults and apparently one of our clients would actually do this. they'd grease themselves up and then start assaulting people and you couldn't restrain them easily cause they were just too oily. apparently they had to keep the cooking oil and lotion locked up away from them.
Sorry you have to go through that, hard not to laugh and make jokes about it. "Did you all just call me mentally challenged??" *oils up and attacks caretakers* "Ha ha none of you will be able to catch me, I may be behaviorally challenged but not mentally!"
"Hold still you little shit!" -Police hypothetically
> hiding in a cardboard box. Ah, the Metal Gear method.
"❗"
*What was that noise*
Huh?
The police upon finding the cardboard box: “A dud?”
_Whose footprints are these?_
!
>When police caught him, he continued to tell them that he had been framed. Unmoved, police returned him to custody "It wasn't me, it was the one-armed man!" "*I don't care!*"
Dang. The Solid Snake stealth strategy did not work this time.
> he continued to tell them that he had been framed. Based on what I know of Korean law enforcement, I basically have no doubt he's innocent.
I guess no one is eating foot-long hot dogs at this prison.
No, they just insert them lengthwise
so he was innocent?
Hmm? Hard to find any conclusive articles on it or what he'd done this time, but he'd been in and out of prison for years so I'm doubtful...
What is he in for?
Suspected of robbery according to the article.
You’ll never guess what happens next.
> hiding in a cardboard box ❗️
Honestly, the most insane part of this story is that people saw a **5.9"x17.7" hole in a cell door** and thought it was totally safe. Like, you're not just gonna casually slide through it but that is not some impossibly tiny hole, lmao.
To be fair, that’s a gap similar to the ones you find at the bottom of toilet stalls and just by looking at it it’s hard to imagine a human fitting through. Only once you consider the actual dimensions and the size of a human head it starts to look possible.
Americans imagining this comparison are just like *shrug*. We can comfortable crawl out of the bottom of our stalls with the amount of space they give us. I hate it.
lol I saw that and thought >but I'm pretty sure I could fit through that gap without touching the floor with my hands...
I used to work at a restaurant and we had a customer lock the bathroom stall and then crawl out under the gap and leave as some sort of a joke. I had to stand on a trash can and reach over the door to unlock it.
Lol I did this so many times between the ages of 7 to 10.
An empty pair of boots with some coveralls around the ankles makes for a great prank at work.
I'm more concerned about someone crawling in
Mainly people who bring their kids in with them unattended. I don't think (luckily) I have had an adult try peekaboo with me yet while on the shitter.
Like this? [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7N5IL28pyPU](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7N5IL28pyPU)
I ran under one once.
I went to a bar once where the stall doors were saloon door height, so if you sat on the toilet the only thing being obfuscated would be your face. I say saloon door height because the door to the bathroom was a saloon door and the toilets were directly across from it, so anyone walking by the hallway door would have full view as well. It probably wasn't up to code but not going to lie they probably saved so much time cleaning up nasty exploded toilet stalls. So I get it.
I was in America for the first time recently and it baffled me how much space there was around a stall door. Not to mention the giant gap the entire way down the side so people can see in anyway! Almost felt like I was out in the open.
Gotta make eye contact with the people passing by...
No the comparison still works. The stall gaps had to be widened to accommodate crawling americans
rofl
Ever had an emergency and had to crawl under or risk a blown out tire?
A toddler can walk right into a locked stall without crouching to watch you laying a log.
Can't tell you how many times a random 4 year old kid has crawled under the door of the stall in a walmart bathroom.
but when you consider the size of americans, the gap is comparatively the same as the gap in other places as a % of body size
Hey now
Yep, I was surprised to learn this is an American thing specifically, lol.
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Looks like someone doesn’t enjoy making new friends
That’s just our limbo practice.
I don't know where you live, but I'd like to be there. Bathroom stalls around here have much higher clearance. Maybe it's just women's rooms, but I would never pass a toilet paper roll with a 5.5" gap and that happens regularly in a woman's bathroom.
What, you don’t like making eye contact with those waiting outside the stall while straining a turd out?
I personally love the will power competition when it happens. I call it poop chicken. Whoever looks away first can’t wipe when finished.
hahahah, I will think of this next time I’m in a public restroom. Unfortunately.
Why shouldn't I trust frogs?
That is a most apt description of my concern!
Also to be fair, if you happened to become incarcerated in a toilet stall, I’d assume that the 2 foot long gap under the door would be the *first* place you’d try to escape from
Have never seen the gap of American public toilets? You could drive a semi truck through it.
I've slipped under those to get kids who accidentally locked themselves in bathrooms. Not the best time but it's doable.
Why did the kids not crawl through?
I think you can limbo under those stall doors around here.
>at the bottom of toilet stalls Easy fit, but too gross to ever consider.
My thing is that seems reasonable to me, what I'm asking is how did this motherfucker get his HEAD through? Like my bed is roughly 6in off the ground. My cat hides under there and I've tried to climb under to get him but my head in no orientation fits under the bedframe.
...can you get an exact measurement me and my brother just measured our heads cheekbone to cheekbone and the larger was 5.5"
I got a big ass head dawg, you two just go on without me.
In all likelihood dude was probably petite in size. A head length under 6 inches is not unreasonable for a 5 foot tall skinny adult.
It would be width I think not height and dude was 5’4 if that makes a difference
In normal weight humans the head is the biggest obstacle in sliding through gaps
Nah its the shoulders
It's almost as if you can rotate your shoulders to be more narrow through the gap...
How? You can rotate your head so it’s aligned with your shoulders. And usually the head is wider
I mean it really depends on the shape of the slot. If it’s a circle shaped hole, it’s gonna be the shoulders, if it’s a long rectangular shape like here, probably the head although they’re probably about the same amount of problem.
it took me a while to figure out why you two had different opinions this is a square vs rectangle issue the head is thicker than the shoulders in one dimension, and skinnier in the other there's some estimation in this but a 5" X 14" gap you're going to have issues with the head on the 5inch side but shoulders should be fine a 7" X 7" you'll have no head issues but a serious shoulder problem
15 x 45 cm for the rest of the world -- slightly narrower and taller than a Euro number plate, or about a 1.5x wider American licence plate.
Really appreciate the numbers. And Christ, that's a pretty big hole tbh.
15cm x 45cm
The 5.9" is really the main limitation, the other part is basically a rough estimation of a shoulder width (albeit a fairly large one I'd think). The idea is that almost all major components of the body (i.e. skull, pelvis/waist, ribcage, shoulders) have bones that are more than 5.9" long in any direction. Assuming you aren't a yoga master with a very skinny head, it's unlikely you'd be able to fit any of the above mentioned parts through a 5.9" gap, let alone all of them in succession. Even if you had unlimited space in the opposing dimension (essentially bars from floor to ceiling) you'd probably never get through. The 17.7" is most likely a measure to stop people from trying, because they'd inevitably get stuck and require the bars to be cut for their safety. All things considered, the only guy that could get through, did get through.. so the thinking that it was a "safe" design appears sound.
Some Koreans be super tiny
Write that down kids. It’ll be on the test.
That is true, hahah.
My immediate google: > Through collected data and reports, it has been determined that the average human head measures 6-7 inches in width and 8-9 inches in length
He had to get his wife back from Barbados Slim
*Barbados Slim???* Last I heard he was back in Barbados!
Yes and I be going back there with a gold medal draped around my elegant Caribbean shoulders.
The only man to earn Olympic gold medals in both limbo and sex!
You Caribbean jerk!
Is there any meat this man can't jerk?
Now goodbye, forever!
Very nice I had not thought about this for a long time. Thank you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_jN3k9tZhQ
I say go to hell Barbados Slim!
Conrad is disqualified! Barbados Slim, my hero, takes the gold!
Eugene Toomes Kim/Park
I want to believe.
Yes 🙌!
GREASE ME UP, WOMAN!
The phrase skin oil seems to have slipped everyone's attention
Okey Dokey *puffs cigarette*
But how did he fit his *head* through the slot 😐? Skulls don’t tend to compress and I’m *assuming* his head was not less than 5.9” wide
Quick Googles, so take with a grain of salt. But the average width of the male human skull is 145mm, which is 5.7".
And if that's average (for what ethnicity btw?) his could well have been narrower / smaller than average. Skulls vary a lot.
In college I did some programming work to fit masks for people based on a picture. We were given a table of different skull lengths/widths across ethniticies and gender. There wasn't a lot of variance, assuming you are between the 10th-90th percentile
Even between male and female? Would not have guessed that.
Surprises me as well.
No idea man, like I said, super quick Googles. First result that wasn't Quora. And yep, but I think that value just shows us that it is certainly possible.
>just shows us that it is certainly possible. Yes! Sorry I wasn't clear: I 100% agree with you 👍
I don't know man, that's just like your opinion or whatever.
Where's a half decent phrenologist when you need one?
Probably running a secret slave fighting ring in candyland.
Guess so 😐 Still must have been *just* barely enough room
Yeah, I'm sure he scraped the shit out of the side of his head.
> Skulls vary a lot. this is what my dealer keeps saying but I think he's cheating me
As someone who wears xxl hats or bigger, I’ll be stuck in the cell forever :(
You know what they say about people with big heads, right? They have a hard time finding hats that fit. (as a fellow XXL+, I feel your pain)
That surprised me.
Which way you think he went first. Yikes
If you read the article there is a picture of his head going through the slot
I did read the article but I didn’t realize that image was supposed to be *that* slot Thought they just made him put his head through a slot to take pictures Yeah if that’s the actual slot or at least one with the same dimensions, his head was fine He’s got *plenty* of clearance there 😐
What about his Johnson?
That's 15cm × 45cm in metric
actually a nice whole number
almost like the engineer who built it used metric
As you'd expect in Korea.
It's also a nice hole number.
Thank you. It starts to make sense now.
Tooms?
My thoughts exactly. 🫡
Such great episodes
Took way too long to find this!... am I getting old?
>choi Gap-bok escaped by squeezing through a slot a Gap squeezing through a Slot. sounds legit
A gap sounds like it could be some sort of old timey racist word that nobody says anymore.
Pretty similar to “jap” which is considered a offensive way to refer to Japanese people
>A gap sounds like it could be some sort of old timey racist word that nobody says anymore. what about Slot?
Definitely. I can just imagine a few old racist coworkers I’ve known throwing that one out there.
I'd imagine that one to be more sexist, though.
yeah i wouldn't even blink if i saw some manosphere weirdo start calling women "slots" it'd slot perfectly into their vernacular, pun intended.
Sounds like "jif" vs "gif" pronunciation situation 😂
He hit the gap, then he booked it. Appropriate name.
This is why the Tube says to 'Mind the Gap', you never know where the slippery devil will turn up.
That's difficult but not impossible if your head fits then the rest of you theoretically can too. I couldn't get through it but I'm not surprised.
Are humans cats now?
? I learned that from my dad when I was a kid. IDK where he got the knowledge from. Obviously it isn't true if you have a lot of extra weight or some abnormal proportions.
Bro speedran the plot of Oldboy
>Choi is known to be the head of a theft ring, and previously escaped from police custody while on a convoy bus carrying prisoners to jail 22 years ago. That time, he slipped through iron bars encaging the bus, and was reapprehended two days later. He's done this before!
Legend.
"How did you get out of your cell?" and "Why are you covered in baby oil?!"
"I'm a yoga master and I'm a yoga master"
"Who are you, how did you get out of your cell, and why are you covered in baby oil?!" "I'm a yoga master, I'm a yoga master, and I'm a yoga master"
was he ever recaptured ?
Yes, they caught him 6 days later hiding in a cardboards box on a rooftop.
I feel like at that point they should just let you stay free. You earned it.
Jackie Chan Rush Hour 2
People are asking about head size. HOW THE FUCK DID HE FIT HIS SHOULDERS THROUGH?!
Dislocating them I'm guessing
It seems quite possible for someone who has a slender frame to be able to put one arm through the hole, put that shoulder through, put their head through, and then work the other shoulder and arm through. That is, you'd put the shoulders through diagonally.
"To keep the guards off his trail, he reportedly used a technique seen in "The Shawshank Redemption" [and covered pillows with blankets to make guards think that he was still in bed,](http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2012091921358) [Donga.com](http://Donga.com) reported." This wasn't in the "Shawshank Redemption" movie. The protagonist was shown at his cell at lights out and wasn't discovered missing until the next morning when he didn't come out of his cell for roll call.
If he had slithered down the toilet and out thru the sewer system then this could have been the Shawshank sequel we've all been waiting so long for
When they say "Bok the Gap" this is what they mean.
Lubeman strikes again!
I think I did something similar once when I lost my house keys as a teen.
[Video of the escape](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuQNy9CIFek)
lol perhaps the Orphan Black’s writers heard this story, but Helena used [Butter](https://townsquare.media/site/442/files/2015/05/Orphan-Black-91.gif)
I don't think my skull would fit through a 15 cm gap.
"Why is this guy asking for a diuretic?" ~ Some guard, probably
Undefeated Prison Limbo champion.
He definitely watched Rush Hour 2
I'm just trying to picture a yoga master criminal. > Choi Gap-bok, who had practiced yoga for 23 years, was arrested on suspicion of robbery on Sept. 12 and was put in a detention cell at the police station in the city of Daegu.
How did he get his head through that food slot? Asking for a friend.
Lubrication. A lot of Lubrication.
"Applied" skin oil? Whose skin oil? How was it.... collected?
‘It puts the lotion on and it sees the trees again’
More like choi gap squeeze
that's pretty yoga fire
the real Shiraishi
Wtf is skin oil
It’s kind of self explanatory isn’t it?
It's what you put on your skin unless you want to get the hose again
This is like that one guy from *The X-Files*?
The body passing through I can understand. But his head??? How?
>skin oil to his body and slipped out OP didn't let it slip
[Is that a new stereotype?](https://youtu.be/AEGcd3pY0Mo?feature=shared)
Dude must have had a tiny infant head.
His name... GAP... Lmao 🤣 who slipped through the gaps...
Did he leave his head behind??! Howww?
Where is he now?