Christopher Daniel Gay
Christopher Daniel Gay (born 1974 or 1975), also nicknamed Little Houdini, is an American habitual car thief and repeat escapee from custody. He gained notoriety in 2007 after stealing the tour bus of country music singer Crystal Gayle after an escape. After his last escape, Gay was captured in 2009. 2007 escape. In 2007, Gay escaped to visit his dying mother in Tennessee and while on the run from police he managed to steal the tour bus of country music singer Crystal Gayle (of whom Gay's mother happened to be a fan) and traveled to Daytona  International Speedway (where he tried to pass himself off as a member of Tony Stewart's race team). He was apprehended by police after asking for directions from a prostitute who turned out to be part of a police sting (the bus was returned to Crystal Gayle undamaged). Twelve days following Gay's capture, Gay's mother died on February 7, 2007, of cancer. Gay was not allowed to attend her funeral. This escape inspired country music singer-songwriter Tim O'Brien to write a song about his escape called "The Ballad of Christopher Daniel Gay". It also inspired rapper Sage  Francis to write the song called "Little Houdini" on his 2010 album "Li(f)e." Last escape. Gay escaped police custody the afternoon of March 3, 2009, while being transported from Orlando, Florida to Coffee County, Tennessee. He had been arrested and held for larceny of a Wal-Mart truck. When the officers stopped for food at a Waffle House in Kennesaw, Georgia, Gay was able to free himself of his restraints and fled from the car. Gay ran onto the campus of Kennesaw State University, where school officials and campus police locked down the university for approximately two hours. Gay had  previously escaped police custody in South Carolina while being transported to Alabama on charges of stealing an RV.