The Old Peanut Butter Escape Trick - can't make this sh* up!

[fleur-de-lisa]

Peanut butter helps 12 Alabama jail inmates escape: report

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2017/07/peanut_butter_used_to_help_12.html

Twelve inmates escaped from an Alabama jail Sunday night (July 30) after using peanut butter to obscure a door number and trick a young jailer, AL.com reported. Of the 12 escapees, all but one was back in custody Monday afternoon.

Brady Andrew Kilpatrick, a Cordova man jailed on drug possession charges, remained at large, the website reported. The jailer opened a door to the outside thinking it was a cell door, Underwood said, because the number had been covered with peanut butter.

"Changing numbers on doors with peanut butter -- It may sound crazy, but these kinds of people are crazy like a fox." Underwood told a news conference. "He thought he was opening the cell door for this man to go in his cell, but in fact he opened up the outside door."

"Escapes happen," Underwood said. "We've got some evil people down here, and they scheme all the time to con us and our employees at the jail. You've got to stay on your toes. This is one time we slipped up. I'm not going to make any excuses."

The inmates scaled a 12-foot fence topped with razor wire after walking out.

[Missn-Hitch]

1. Reminds me of the old "banana in the tail pipe" trick.

[TexasTowelie]

2. They caught the last inmate.

Final Inmate Caught After Peanut Butter Escape

Authorities in Florida have captured the last of the dozen prisoners who fled an Alabama county jail in a scheme involving peanut butter.

Florida’s Martin County Sheriff's Office announced on social media that local deputies and the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force captured 24-year-old Brady Andrew Kilpatrick last night about 20 miles north of West Palm Beach.

Kilpatrick was being held in the Walker County jail on marijuana and drug paraphernalia charges when he and 11 other prisoners fled Sunday night.

Walker County Sheriff James Underwood says prisoners used peanut butter to change the numbers above a door in order to trick a new employee into opening another door that led outside. They then used their jail uniforms and blankets to climb over a razor wire topped fence.

http://apr.org/post/final-inmate-caught-after-peanut-butter-escape