Check it out: Byron Keith Perkins was serving time for bank robbery, and awaiting sentencing for marijuana distribution and unlawful transport of firearms. Looking at around 25 years in the pen. He’s released temporarily to see if he had a compatible kidney to donate to his dialysis-stricken son, but instead of following through on that he flees to Mexico, where he is picked up in Puerto Vallarta with his girlfriend and returned to the states.

That’s about the biggest “fuck you, kid” I’ve ever heard of. His son has fortunately received a valid kidney from an anonymous donor and is doing fine, but is understandably happy that his father was caught. Says the boy,

It’s a pretty bad thing that he did, I don’t know how he could lay his head down at night knowing he ran away and left me up here to die like that.

Tequila and tacos probably helped, I’m guessing. Hey, if I was looking at a quarter of a century in the slammer I might have skipped out too, but not until after taking care of my son. What a shitbag. Here’s another guy who I hope has overly aggressive, well-built, enormously hung cell mates.

Fugitive Father Captured in Mexico [redorbit.com]