...just ask for the way out.
FORGET the knotted bed sheets or tunnel. A New York prisoner has come up with a much easier way to break out of jail: ask the guards for the exit.
The inmate, who was wearing a suit for a court appearance on charges of multiple store robberies, simply wandered out of an open cell door and into a courtroom on Wednesday, the New York Post daily reported.
There, he calmly asked a court officer "which way is out?" and the guard - mistaking the escapee for a lawyer - directed him to the lobby.
The daring jailbird went straight to his 81-year-old mother's Manhattan home to change clothes, then left, she told the Post.
"I thought he was discharged. He was all dressed up," she said.
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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26154372-12377,00.html.....is 2009 the year for stupid prison guards or something?
