How 12 guys used peanut butter to escape from jail…y

El Chapo famously escaped from a maximum-security prison through a deep, high-tech, 1-mile tunnel. These guys, instead, just used peanut butter.

The highly imaginative albeit startling escape took place in Walker County, Alabama, where a dozen inmates disfigured the number on one of the cell door with peanut butter to make it look like the one leading to the outside of the jail. 

All one of them had to do, then, was to convince a new jail employee, who was watching the prisoners on closed-circuit TV from the control room, to open it claiming he needed to go back him.  Read more…

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