In 2006, prisoner Richard Lee McNair got himself a job in prison repairing mail bags. He created a “pod” that fit under the mail bags on a pallet and a forklift transported him out of the prison. A police officer ran into him the same day of his escape but didn’t realize he was the escapee and he successfully fled to Canada. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Oklahoma Murderer Once Escaped Prison For The Third Time By ‘Mailing Himself Out’ – UNILAD
In 1994, West Virginia prison inmate Robert Shepard braided dental floss into a rope as thick as a telephone cord, used it to scale an 18 ft wall, and escaped. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Inmate Wins No Plaque Flossing Way Over Wall – Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)
In 2012, Choi Gap-bok escaped from prison by squeezing his body through a 5.9″ tall and 17.7″ wide food slot when the guards were sleeping. He is a yoga practitioner and applied skin ointment to his body in order to slip out. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/choi-gap-bok-prison-escape_n_1919866
Former Uruguayan President José Mujica spent over 12 years in prison. He escaped and was recaptured twice, and then confined to the bottom of an old, emptied horse-watering trough for more than two years. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xd5adw/president-chill-jose-pepe-mujica-uruguay-0000323-v21n5
Joseph “Moondyne Joe” Johns escaped prison so often that a special prison was built for him. The jailer was so confident in the new jail he promised to set Joe free if he ever escaped. Joe escaped and was caught 2 years later, but the jailer kept his word and freed him. – WTF Fun Facts
In certain countries, like Belgium, Austria, Mexico, and Germany, there is no additional time added to one’s sentence for attempting to and escaping prison, because they believe it is human nature to want to escape. – WTF Fun Facts
You have the right to escape prison in this country – WTF fun facts
