Twitter Sends ‘Pulp Fiction’ Writer Back to Prison

If you’re supposed to be in prison, you probably shouldn’t Tweet about it. Prisoners in full-time custody aren’t supposed to have internet access or cell phones, so tweeting daily about your “prison” experiences is a dead giveaway that you’re not where you’re supposed to be.

Pulp Fiction screenwriter Roger Avary is in the middle of a prison sentence for vehicular manslaughter, following a fatal DUI car crash he caused in January. He fucked the sun when he provided the followers of his @avary Twitter account with daily updates of his prison experiences.

Tweets like the one above led  author Neil Gaiman, one of Avary’s followers, to comment “My friend @AVARY is tweeting from the inside. It’s riveting, horrible strange. Jail in 140 character lumps.”

Gaiman wasn’t the only person who found the tweets interesting. The Ventura County penal system was also enthralled, mostly because Avary was supposed to be in full-time custody and should not have had access to anything that would have allowed him to Tweet.

According to the L.A. Times, Avary mistakenly ended upon a work furlough program that allowed him to leave custody every day from 8am-5pm to work a job, only returning to jail at night to bunk up with his fellow furlough inmates. Avary’s daily Twiiter updates caught the attention of Times writer Mark Milian, who wrote an article about Avary’s mysterious internet access. That article in turn caught the attention of the authorities.

The account has since been locked, and Avary has been transferred to a full-time “pound-me-in-the-ass” facility, but if he had refrained from daily forays into 140-character solipsism, he might not have ever been discovered.