Jack Karlson, the man who spurred an iconic Australian meme after his infamous arrest outside a Brisbane restaurant, has died after a prostate cancer diagnosis.
Update: It was nice. It claimed to be spicy noodles but in fact it was rather mild, but did taste good. The leftovers will accompany my succulent half-Chinese dinner.
[Filmmaker Heath Davis] and authors including Mark Dapin had already uncovered stories of Karlson’s prison escapes that are said to include picking the lock cuffing him to a sleeping officer and leaping from a moving train and swimming off a prison island before being rescued by a benevolent fisher.
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“He was some sort of trained actor, he learned that in prison, but he was also a natural showman,” Watt said. “He bluffed his way out of a court in Sydney, said he was a detective, and to do that he must have been a very confident showman … and a bit of a conman as well”.
That video was even funnier when people found out the story behind him. A very eloquent old man's genuine reaction to getting arrested on false charges.
“He said to me that I was the only copper he never hated,” Watt said. “He called me ‘comrade’ and he said ‘come up and spend the night with me and we’ll have a few’, he calls it, ‘the juice of the red grapes’.”