The Dumbest Prison Escape Attempts Ever

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10 Dumbest Prison Escape Plans That Actually Worked
Prisons are all about keeping people inside, but every now and again, folks find their way out. It happens
more often than you might think, but nevertheless, there are some institutions touted as being
inescapable, such that there is no conceivable way for anyone to escape.
The only problem is that people inevitably do escape from those very same prisons. While the filthy rich
drug lords of cartels have their workers dig tunnels for them to escape, others came up with rather
more unique plans! And some of those plans, despite being as silly and insane as they sound, did work
quite brilliantly.
From the Shawshank Redemption to Chicken Run, there have been dozens of films throughout the years
that show the intricate planning and sheer bravado required to break out of prison. Unfortunately, many
of the escapees in the real world are ruthless murderers and armed robbers, but that doesn’t make their
daring escapes any less amazing.
Anyways, here are 10 dumbest prison escape plans that actually worked!
10. Five Years in A North Vietnamese Prison Camp
The Vietnam War was long, brutal, and—according to many—completely unnecessary. But whatever the
reasons for going into the conflict, the men and women on the ground often displayed amazing
perseverance. In August 1967, Major Bud Day was flying over North Vietnam when his plane was shot
down. Seeing his parachute, the North Vietnamese already had their guns drawn when he landed.
He endured several days of torture, and on his fifth day in the prison camp, Day made his escape. He
wriggled out of the ropes that bound his hands and took off into the unforgiving jungle. Well, he did plan
his escape but the plan following his escape was not well thought of.
He had broken his arm in the plane crash and was blind in one eye, but he stumbled doggedly onward,
hiding in the mud—sometimes for hours—whenever a Vietnamese patrol came too close.
For days, he pressed on, eating berries and live frogs to survive. After more than two weeks, he had
made it to within a few miles of a US army base when a Viet Cong patrol stumbled across him and shot
him in the leg.
This time, there was no escape and he spent the next 5 years in captivity before he was eventually
released.
9. Escaping a Gestapo Fortress
When Nazi Germany occupied France in 1940, a former schoolteacher turned infantryman went
underground with the Resistance. That man was Andre Devigny, and he served as a liaison to the British
Special Operations Executive before joining a network that helped refugees get across the border into
Switzerland.
In April 1943, a Nazi mole in the network got Devigny arrested by the Gestapo. Devigny was sent to
Montluc Prison—hell on Earth for anti-Nazi freedom fighters. He was personally tortured by Klaus
Barbie, one of the most brutal men to ever walk on two legs. For four months, Devigny was kept

handcuffed in a small, dark cell in between macabre torture sessions at Barbie’s hands. On August 20,
Barbie told Devigny that he would be executed in a few days. Luckily, Devigny hadn’t been idle.
He’d learned early on that he could pick his handcuffs with a safety pin, and he’d planned an escape
route by lifting his cell’s wooden floorboards with a concrete-sharpened spoon. He and a fellow inmate
escaped at night, killing a guard as they left their cells. Then they took a makeshift grappling hook, made
from twisted bed sheets and a lamp, and swung across a 4.5-meter gap to freedom.
After making it to Switzerland, Devigny immediately rejoined the Resistance and was right beside the
Allied foot soldiers when they took back southern France in 1944.
8. 475 Taliban Escaped from an Afghan Prison
Sarposa Prison is reserved almost entirely for high-risk criminals, such as Taliban militants. In April 2011,
the massive prison held over 500 Taliban prisoners within its walls. It’s supposed to be one of the most
secure prisons in the country, but that claim proved less than solid when around 475 prisoners escaped
through a massive tunnel under the prison walls.
The entire underground structure was over 100 meters long and was equipped with concrete shoring,
electricity, and ventilation shafts. Like many of these stories, the real work came from outside the
prison. Work on the tunnel began months before the breakout in a small rented house nearby.
Early in the morning on April 25, the tunnel broke through the prison floor, and hundreds of Taliban
dropped through one-by-one, a process that took hours. Only about 40 of the prisoners have since been
found.
7. Seamus Twomey’s IRA Rescue Squad
As the chief of staff for the Provisional IRA, Seamus Twomey was not a very nice guy.

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