This may be one of the few people to actually have experienced the future shock and wonderment of Marty McFly going from 1985 to the year 2015. However instead of going instantly in a DeLorean time machine Randall Lee Church went in the old “prison time machine” – serving 28 years in the joint for murder from 1983 – 2011. He was incarcerated in prison since before Back to the Future was even released and when het got out, was shocked by all the new technology (which apparently you don’t get to play with in prison.)

When Church got out of prison, he tells the Houston Chronicle, “I didn’t know how to use computers or cell phones or the Internet… It was so overwhelming. I was constantly embarrassed by simple things I didn’t know.”

So he’s confused about computers and cell phones, like your Grandfather.. with a makeshift prison knife. In the end the guy decided to burn down an abandoned house to go back to prison where he wouldn’t have to deal with all this new fangled technology!

Randall Lee Church didn’t believe his fellow inmates when they warned him about culture shock after he got out of prison — he thought they were just jealous. But then Church, who’d been locked up since 1983, emerged into a world that made no sense.

When Church got out of prison, he tells the Houston Chronicle, “I didn’t know how to use computers or cell phones or the Internet… It was so overwhelming. I was constantly embarrassed by simple things I didn’t know.”

As the Chronicle says, “Prices were higher and scanned with bar codes. Video games were more realistic. People were always on their cell phones. Cars had childproof locks.”

If you want to understand just how much the world has changed in the past few decades, imagine being Randall Lee Church, who went to prison at age 18, at a time when almost nobody had a mobile phone and the internet was in its infancy. Of course, it wasn’t just culture shock that faced Church — like most newly released prisoners, he also had few job skills and no support system to help him find a job and affordable housing. It’s hard to reenter society in any case, but it’s much harder during an apocalyptically bad economy.

In the end, faced with a world that made no sense to him, Church burned down an abandoned house, in order to get sent back to prison.