Robber Sews Mouth Shut To Avoid Court
 

Accused Serbian Robber Sews Pp Lips And Tongue To Avoid Court Hearing

Yugoslavia - Using a needle, thread and safety pins, a Serbian prisoner stitched his lips and tongue together to avoid a scheduled court hearing in his robbery case.

Zoran Raskovic, 27, is one of six people charged with a 2003 bank heist in the central Serbian town of Mladenovac, when the group allegedly made away with the equivalent of about $153,000 Cdn.

A prison guard discovered Raskovic on Friday morning after he had apparently sewed his mouth together overnight. The needle and the safety pins were likely smuggled into the prison, the Blic newspaper reported Saturday.

A prison surgeon was called in and removed the self-inflicted stitches, but Raskovic, who had lost some blood, subsequently was too weak to appear in court Friday.

Those wacky Serbs.

Um....Ouch. That's gross and sounds painful. That's one weird guy.