How To Bust Out Of The Big House.

Fake it till you make it. In 2005, convicted killer Charles Victor Thompson slipped out of a Texas jail by changing into a set of smuggled civilian clothes and bluffing his way past guards. (He told them he was a "state investigator" and flashed his prison ID.) The infamous Texas Seven snuck out of a maximum-security state prison in 2000 by impersonating supervisors over the phone, among other ruses.

The Shawshank-esque redemption. Slow and steady wins the race and, in some cases, freedom. Just this week, nearly 500 Taliban escaped from Sarposa prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan, after militants spent months digging a 360-meter tunnel that led from one inmate's cell. In 2007, two New Jersey convicts, apparently taking inspiration from The Shawshank Redemption, used tools to carve holes in their cell walls and covered them with pinup posters.
Brute force. This might be the toughest technique of all. In March 2005, Brian Nichols overpowered a security guard at an Atlanta courthouse and took her gun. He went on to shoot a judge, a court reporter, and a police officer before taking a woman hostage in her home. He eventually surrendered to police. In 1998, a friend of Florida inmate Jay Sigler drove a giant truck through four layers of security fence and blasted guards with a shotgun while Sigler jumped into a second getaway car driven by Sigler's mother.
Cry for help. Friends don't let friends rot in prison. Three convicted murderers escaped from an Arizona state prison in August 2010 by using wire cutters thrown over the prison fence by a woman outside. When David Puckett drove his stolen pickup to Houston after escaping from a Texas prison, he had money wired to him by a woman he'd met online while in prison. But the Best Friend Award probably goes to Pascal Payet. The French criminal first escaped from prison in 2001 in a helicopter hijacked by a group of friends. In 2003, he paid it forward by helping three friends escape from the same prison—again via a helicopter. He was soon arrested and returned to prison, from which he escaped once again in 2007—by helicopter. He was caught in Spain two months later.

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