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Two years later, after he had been locked up in McLeod Prison Farm on Victoria's French Island for another theft, he convinced a local fisherman to give him a lift to the mainland. He got out of his handcuffs and jumped off. He was on a train going from Boggo Road Gaol to face a breaking, entering and stealing charge at Maryborough Magistrates Court.

He was also a part-time actor.īy the time he was 34, Karlson had spent most of his life in homes and prisons. The Brisbane police who arrested him that day didn't know that Karlson had been a criminal and a serial prison escapee. It was all put on for the cameras.' The drama behind the rant

'There was no fight getting him out of the car. 'As soon as we drove away, he stopped and he said, 'That was fun,'' Firman says. The video of the rant has become so popular that a Google search for the phrase 'succulent Chinese meal' now yields 10,000 more results than 'delicious Chinese meal'. Why did you do this to me? For what reason? What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?' See that chap over there? He… GET YOUR HAND OFF MY PENIS! This is the bloke who got me on the penis before. 'Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest!' Karlson declares to the cameras as he's wrestled into the police car. The lines Karlson delivered have since become classic quotes in internet culture. Well, as happy as you can be, to be arrested. 'He was as calm as anything,' former police detective Adam Firman says of the moment he arrested Karlson in the restaurant. Police surrounded the restaurant, corralled the waiting media (who had somehow gotten wind), and interrupted Karlson's lunch. Then, perhaps pushing for a quick capture, he reported Karlson as one of Queensland's most wanted. According to a police detective, the investigator asked a restaurant worker about one of the names on the stolen cards, and the worker pointed at Karlson.

Tell me why i'm waiting for someone who couldn't give a f about me