The Albany Times-Union has acquired security footage from the local county jail — cut, sped up and set to the Benny Hill Theme “Yakety Sax.”
To the madcap music of “Yakety Sax,” the video shows correction officers chasing a jumpsuit-clad inmate through Albany County jail corridors and stairways. The action is speeded up, lending the attempted escape the feel of a Keystone Kops comedy.
Sheriff’s officials were not amused. “We’re not paying our guys to be making comedy skits and videos of incidents that occur at our jail,” Craig Apple, a sheriff’s office and jail official, told the Times-Union.
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