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It's not every day a van full of jail inmates chases down an escapee in a getaway car, especially when the van is towing a portable toilet at speeds few portable toilets have gone before.
But that's just what happened in Yakima last week, although the official version of the escape attempt — and the way it was foiled — failed to mention those details.
"It was quite the sight," said Alan Brittin, a Yakima County Jail inmate on contract from Auburn who was involved in the chase. "Imagine a honey bucket doing 90 miles an hour."
Jail officials said Wednesday they would investigate complaints by Brittin and another inmate about the chase, which the inmates described as reckless and unnecessary.
The corrections officers conceded the official version of the escape attempt may have been somewhat incomplete, omitting as it did the detail that the guard in charge of the work crew ordered the rest of the group back into the van and took off after the escapee, Porta-Potty in tow.
Claims that the van hit speeds of nearly 100 mph while trying to catch up to the getaway car may not be verifiable.
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