A Dutch prisoner named Angelo MacD. is having a little problem. Well, in his case, it’s a big problem related to his jail cell. Angelo’s attorney agrees that his cell in Krimpen aan de IJssel, Netherlands, is fine for a standard prisoner, but Angelo MacD. is a giant who apparently cannot fit comfortably in his normal prison cell. That’s why Angelo has taken his lawsuit to The Hague, arguing that his imprisonment violates the European Convention on Human Rights.
His bed’s too short in length AND width, so he has to sleep on his side all the time and falls out of bed. He has to duck to step into his cell door. The toilet is too small and low to the ground for Angelo to properly use it. The shower stall is entirely too small, as Angelo has to cram himself into the shower and duck to wash his hair. All Angelo wants is to be comfortable, and in his case that means a home incarceration for his fraud conviction, where everything is specially outfitted to his height.
“My client just wants to serve a comparable sentence without pain,” said Angelo MacD’s lawyer, Bas Martens. “He is 2.07m tall (about 6’8”) and a metre wide and a metre deep. He is not obese. He is a giant. He even walks like a giant, like out of the comic books.”
According to those measurements, Angelo is about 6 feet 8 inches tall, about 3 feet wide and about 3 feet deep. Given his weight was stated as 230 kilograms, or 36 stone, he weighs roughly 507 pounds. Given that he’s a sheer mountain of a man, I can understand why he’d have difficulties in a standard prison cell. I’m only 6’1, and I’m uncomfortable in a lot of otherwise normal environments (like car seats and my bed) due to my height.
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