Classic jail-break...

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Get Knotted: Prisoner's Classic Jail Escape
Monday May 12, 2008

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - It was a scene from a classic prison break: an old stone jail tower, a dangling rope of knotted sheets revealed as dawn broke - and an empty cell. A guard raised the alarm today when he came to work and noticed the sheets hanging outside the Mount Eden prison in New Zealand's largest city, Auckland, corrections officials said. By then Aaron Forden, who was to be tried soon on burglary and assault charges, was gone.

Forden, 26, apparently climbed down the tower of the prison - built in 1856 and officially listed as a historic site - within clear view of a guards' watch tower but under cover of darkness. Corrections Department regional manager Warren Cummins says the bed sheets were "tied together and he's used them to get away." Police were hunting for Forden.

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The old lag.....I wonder if they're gonna close the place down now like Alcatraz?????

[SpursFan1902]

And how did he get/explain the need for the sheets? "Sorry warden, I've wet my bed yet again!! Yes I know I am an adult. I don't understand it either. By the way, can I get some more sheets?"

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Brazilian inmates escape prison via kindergarten
21/ 10/ 2008

RIO-DE-JANEIRO, October 21 (RIA Novosti) - Sixteen inmates of a small prison in the southern Brazilian state of Parana have escaped by digging a 4-meter (13-foot) tunnel into a neighboring kindergarten, local media reported on Tuesday.

The Astorga prison, which can house 66 prisoners, is guarded by only one prison guard on weekends. Local police said the 16 escapees managed to saw through the bars of their cells and dig the 4-meter tunnel over the weekend, as the only guard on duty failed to watch over the inmates. The breakout was committed early on Monday morning, when the kindergarten was empty.

It was the second such escape in the past six months. In May, another group of inmates also dug a tunnel into the kindergarten.

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A nursery school next door to a prison? That's completely natural and not strange at all!

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Notorious Greek prisoner escapes by helicopter - again
Reuters
22 February 2009

Greece's most notorious prisoner escaped from an Athens jail on Sunday in a Hollywood-style helicopter getaway - for a second time. Vassilis Palaiokostas, 44, had escaped from the maximum security prison in 2006 in an operation involving helicopters and fast cars. He was arrested again last summer for allegedly organising the kidnap of an industrialist and was awaiting trial.

"Palaiokostas and his Albanian accomplice escaped from Korydallos prison by helicopter," a police official who declined to be named told Reuters. "The helicopter was then found in the northern Athens suburb of Kapandriti but there was no trace of the fugitives."

Palaiokostas was serving a prison sentence for multiple robberies and kidnapping when accomplices whisked him out of the prison courtyard three years ago. Police found him in August by tracing the marked ransom money.

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Not such a successful escape this time...

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53 mexican prisoners escape by walking out the door

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Obese prisoner hides gun in his fat
August 7, 2009

An obese jail inmate managed to hide a gun from authorities after he was arrested - because he was so overweight he could conceal it inside his rolls of fat. 500lb (35st) George Vera, 25, hid the pistol underneath his rolls of skin, wheer it remained undetected during five seperate searches.

The 5ft 10in Vera was arrested by Houston police and taken to the city jail on suspicion of bootlegging CDs. A spokesman for the Houston Police Department, Kese Smith, confirmed that procedures call for a suspect to be searched upon arrest, twice at the city jail and once more upon his transfer. Vera was then transferred to the county jail, where he was searched at least once more.

It was only when he was in the shower later that day that Vera confessed to a guard that he had weapon on him. Officers subsequently found a 9-millimeter handgun beneath his folds of flab. Vera was then charged with possession of a firearm in a correctional facility.

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Prisoner breaks out of jail, steals cigarettes, then goes back
A prisoner has been sentenced to 20 years more jail after he broke out of prison, stole 14 packs of cigarettes, then returned to jail.

Prosecutors said that Harry Jackson, 26, escaped from his cell at the Camden County Jail in southern Georgia last year - and initially headed for the exercise yard to pick up some illicit cigarettes he had expected would be thrown over a fence, the Florida Times-Union newspaper reports.

They say that when the contraband wasn't there, Jackson instead climbed over the fence, and made a beeline for a nearby convenience store, where he broke a window and grabbed 14 cigarette packs. He then headed back to jail - only to be arrested upon his return.

Jackson pleaded guilty to burglary and escape charges on Monday. Prosecutors say he had been jailed on charges including driving with a suspended license.

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Convicts dress up as sheep to escape high security prison
Two convicts who escaped from a high security prison in Argentina evaded over 300 pursuing policemen by dressing up as sheep.

The two convicts wore full sheepskins, including the sheep's head, in what can only be described as a master class in secret agent-style disguise. Maximiliano Pereyra and Ariel Diaz evaded over 300 policemen after their escape from an Argentinian maximum security prison a week ago, according to the Sun.

Locals have seen the pair running through fields under the cover of darkness: 'They were wearing grey clothes but had full sheepskins, including the sheep's heads, over their heads and back,' a farmworker stated. By day, the pair apparently conceal themselves by hiding among a flock of sheep. Police in the area have found the search 'almost impossible' due to the thousands of sheep that roam the surrounding fields.

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not such a baamy plan if they've not been caught...

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Peanutentiary
By NICK PARKER
10 May 2010
thesun.co.uk

POLICE have collared a man who was trying to break into prison to spring an inmate while dressed as SNOOPY.

Jail workers were stunned when confronted by the lovable Peanuts character waving a gun. When the comic-strip beagle and an accomplice failed to break down a staff door, they pelted prison officers' cars with concrete missiles.

A prison service source said yesterday: "It's not every day you see a giant cartoon dog going on the rampage after trying to break into a prison. They weren't exactly inconspicuous - but it was taken seriously because they appeared to have a gun. They caused a real commotion and it was only later they were found to be armed with a water pistol."

The duo were arrested and it then emerged they had targeted the WRONG jail - the family member they wanted to free was banged up elsewhere. Snoopy and his un-costumed sidekick tried to get into HMP Isle of Wight's Albany site, while the relative was in the complex's Camp Hill jail. The insider explained: "They are very close together but this has got to rank as one of the worst attempted jail breaks ever."

A Hampshire Constabulary spokesman said two men, aged 43 and 21, were arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and detained under the Mental Health Act after the May 1 incident. It is not clear which man wore the costume.

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The headline's a cracker... haha

[Skylace]

What a RUFF-ian! So glad the collared him! After all this he should be put in a wood stock!

[SpursFan1902]

I wonder if the break out was on "a dark and stormy night..."?

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