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"Shawshank Redemption" Inspires Real World Prison Break

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On Saturday, convicted murderers David Sweat and Richard Matt escaped from the maximum security wing of the Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York near the Canadian border.

Escaping from a maximum security prison is not — we imagine anyway — a particularly easy task, but even as improbable jailbreaks go, this particular effort was quite remarkable. 

In a scene straight out of "The Shawshank Redemption", Sweat and Matt apparently busted through a steel wall, maneuvered down catwalks, cut through a steel pipe, left a Post-it note with the message “Have A Nice Day”, and crawled their way to freedom, emerging from a manhole outside of prison walls. The New York Times has more:

Duping guards with dummies fashioned out of sweatshirts and using power tools to drill out of their cells, the men made their getaway late Friday or early Saturday, emerging on the other side of the prison’s 30-foot-tall walls, officials said..

 

The governor marveled at the particulars of escape, in which the two inmates had cut through a steel wall of their adjacent cells, shinnied down a series of internal catwalks, and burrowed their way more than a city block away before emerging from a manhole. Mr. Cuomo said that there had been a number of contractors working in the facility, and that the escapees’ work may have been safeguarded by the silence of other prisoners.

 

“I chatted with a couple of the inmates myself and said, ‘You must be a very heavy sleeper,’ ” the governor said. “They were heard, they had to be heard”..

 

“When you look at how the operation was done, it was extraordinary,” Mr. Cuomo said on Saturday after being given a tour of the escape route. This was the first time in the prison’s history that anyone escaped from the maximum-security section of the facility, he said.

 

The State Police said that Mr. Matt, 48, and Mr. Sweat, 34, were discovered missing during a 5:30 a.m. bed check.

 

The inmates left a parting message, according to a picture posted to Twitter by Gareth Rhodes, the governor’s deputy press secretary. It shows a yellow Post-it note next to a hole cut in a pipe. On the note, a caricature of a man wearing a conical hat appears above the words: “Have a nice day!”

 

 

A massive manhunt is now underway involving hundreds of law enforcement officers, K-9s, bloodhounds, and helicopters. 

Despite their apparent sense of humor, Sweat and Matt are considered extremely dangerous and although authorities would appreciate any help they can get, Governor Cuomo had the folowing warning for New York residents:

“These are dangerous people, and they are nothing to be trifled with.”

 

 

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Sun, 06/07/2015 - 14:23 | 6171969 lolmao500
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Nice

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 14:40 | 6172023 Oh regional Indian
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In what way lolmao?

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 14:44 | 6172034 BuddyEffed
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Today's Doonesbury has great insight on trickle down economics.

http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 14:46 | 6172039 BC6
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NSA should ban the movie and have a book burning party like a bunch of wild Injuns.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 15:04 | 6172100 Pure Evil
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I think the governor has it completely backwards.

The crooks running Albany are the "dangerous people". And if you trifle with them watch all hell break loose on your head.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 15:18 | 6172130 prefan4200
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The guy on the right could get work as a Carlos Mencia impersonator. 

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 15:43 | 6172206 Publicus
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The super mutants amonst us.

 

On a more serious note, this operation was supported by agencies/NGO.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 15:59 | 6172262 Pladizow
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Only thing missing from this Shawshank Clinton Correctional Facility break was a poster over that hole of Hillary!

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 17:48 | 6172483 RafterManFMJ
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Thank God he's finally free! Godspeed Jamie Dimon, Godspeed.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 18:03 | 6172511 THE 4th Quadrant
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“These are dangerous people, and they are nothing to be trifled with.”

Yea, .gov starts with the bullshit from page one.

Help these guys if you see them. Tyler would expect nothing less from you!

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 03:17 | 6173429 cookie nookie
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Have you ever read Salem's Lot?  Now that was a great novel.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 16:03 | 6172272 HowdyDoody
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That pipe looks prety narrow to me. In the final photograph, it looks to be half the width of the man's shoulders. How on earth did the prisoner on the right get through that?

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 21:10 | 6172922 mkkby
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Something sure stinks here.  A max security prison and inmates have POWER TOOLS and the electricity to use them?  Somebody high up in the prison is in on this. 

My guess is they knew exactly how to move thru the catacombs of the place and had a waiting vehicle, money and supplies.  I would not be surprised if intelligence agencies are involved.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 17:41 | 6172141 Max Steel
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idiot south koreans tampering with my phone again

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 17:41 | 6172150 Max Steel
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fucking gold

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 17:41 | 6172153 Max Steel
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Sun, 06/07/2015 - 15:23 | 6172154 Max Steel
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I love Shawshank Redemption . Nice movie .

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 17:11 | 6172401 wendigo
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Dude, whether it's too much speed or a busted phone, you need to do something about this. 

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 18:16 | 6172554 Max Steel
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Sorry mate i'm fed up with samsung phone . 

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 22:27 | 6173086 IRC162
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It wasn't Samsung, its the Mongolians 

http://southpark.cc.com/clips/153620/city-wok-guys-great-wall

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 16:04 | 6172273 Freddie
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The vermin in Albany plus Cuomo should be in the Clinton prison along with the real clintons, Bushes, Obola, Kerry, McCain, the NeoCons, NeoLibs, Soros and the State Dept and See Eye Aye goons.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 19:52 | 6172771 InjuredThales
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Doonesbury? Are you fucking joking? Can't think of a more pro-establishment douche than that fuck. Also, you know that "trickle down economics" is a straw man, right?

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 17:04 | 6172382 Fun Facts
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It's complex

[tiny letters]

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 01:16 | 6173345 JuliaS
Sun, 06/07/2015 - 14:25 | 6171978 Tinky
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“These are dangerous people, and they are nothing to be trifled with.”

Ah, the irony of a powerful politician, especially in this day and age, saying that.

 

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 14:29 | 6171988 Son of Loki
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Power drills ?

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 14:34 | 6172001 chunga
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Amazon Prime delivers anywhere

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 16:06 | 6172280 B2u
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Last week, an Amazon drone was seen over the prison.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 16:10 | 6172286 lakecity55
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...it delivered the tools thru the bars of the cells. They probably ordered extra batteries.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 17:16 | 6172405 eXMachina
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Yup, extension cables, circuit breakers and all. Rumour has it they even cordoned off the area, filled out a Safe Work Method Statement and notified the guard of noisy works past 10pm. Very courteous and safety conscious are these killers.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 14:31 | 6171993 Seasmoke
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Except for the murders part. Good for them. I also like how Have a good day, has become the new FUCK YOU !!!

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 14:52 | 6172062 rwe2late
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except for the murders part

[culled from other websites]

Sweat is serving a sentence of life without parole after he was convicted of first-degree murder for killing a Broome County sheriff's deputy in 2002.

Sheriff Deputy Kevin Tarsia was working an overnight shift, and had been driving to his home in Kirkwood on July 4, 2002, when he noticed three men in a park.

The suspects were transferring the guns they had stolen from one vehicle to another when they were approached by Deputy Tarsia. Two of the subjects opened fire on Deputy Tarsia, firing a total of 15 rounds at him. After killing Deputy Tarsia, the men stole his service weapon and several other items from his patrol car and fled.

All three subjects were captured three days later. Two were charged in New York with first-degree murder, and the third was charged with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon. All three were also charged with burglary at a firearms store that had occurred in Great Bend, Pennsylvania. The two men who shot Deputy Tarsia were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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Matt is serving a sentence of 25 years to life for kidnapping a Niagara County businessman, beating him to death and then dismembering him in 1997.
Matt and another man were accused of kidnapping and killing William Rickerson, of North Tonawanda. Matt had worked for Rickerson at a food warehouse, but had recently been fired by the 76-year-old businessman. Rickerson's headless torso and legs were later found floating in the Niagara River.
The two men were charged, but Matt escaped and fled in 1998 to Mexico — where he stabbed a man outside a bar and was imprisoned for murder. Mexican authorities released him in 2007, and he was extradited to the United States. Matt was convicted by a Niagara County jury in 2008

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 15:08 | 6172107 Pure Evil
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All in a day's work for the hardened criminals DHS has been letting loose on the streets.

Of course, when Obama does it its all good.

But, don't do this at home kids, much less from a maximum security prison named after a Clinton.

 

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 18:10 | 6172525 THE 4th Quadrant
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I was going to say it would be nice to see one of them double tap an FBI scumbag! You know, payback for hosting honeypot websites and all....

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 15:38 | 6172209 Ms No
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The one on the left has shark eyes.  If they would have worked for the feds running guns and murder for hire life would have been much easier for them.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 16:04 | 6172275 B2u
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It would be Fuk Yu...and as overheard  on of the guards...Sum Ting Wong...said...Oh shit...

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 14:34 | 6172002 Vidar
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Here's hoping they get away clean, or failing that kill a few pigs on their way down!

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 15:09 | 6172111 InjectTheVenom
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you're a dick

 

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 16:08 | 6172283 lakecity55
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Better hope YOU don't run into them, 'cause they won't give a shit when they kill you and swipe your ride, Clyde.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 14:36 | 6172011 mt paul
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hope the power tools

 

were amerikan made...

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 14:53 | 6172063 Keynesians say ...
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With that post it he drew up I'm guessing they were "Made in China"

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 14:36 | 6172014 gdiamond22
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Think they split up or have stuck together after the escape?

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 15:16 | 6172124 TungstenBars
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Smarter to split. 

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 18:16 | 6172558 Amish Hacker
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And then reunite later in Zihuatenejo, like Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 14:40 | 6172026 roadhazard
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Sounds like an inside AND outside job.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 15:43 | 6172221 Publicus
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Government sponsored.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 14:44 | 6172037 WillyGroper
Sun, 06/07/2015 - 14:46 | 6172042 Chuck Knoblauch
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ISIS is hiring.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 15:40 | 6172212 cosmictrainwreck
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hey! let's keep our home-grown talent in 'Merika, dammit

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 14:53 | 6172067 CunnyFunt
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They did a nice job cutting that pipe -- square corners and no sharp projections. Those boys got some skills.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 17:07 | 6172380 daveO
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.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 14:58 | 6172088 besnook
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what a waste. the note writer has some art skills and both have planning, organization, will, creativity,and no fear not to mention handy with power tools.

recruit them for the revolution because, most of all, they are not afraid of killing people. they just need some direction to kill the right people.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 15:18 | 6172132 kchrisc
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Give 'em a gun and badge and have 'em out extracting wealth and lives for empire and Zion.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 15:03 | 6172099 kchrisc
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Corzine broke out of jail?!

Tell me it isn't so.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.

 

Sick the hounds on that thieving motherfucker.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 15:16 | 6172108 European American
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One of my all time favorite movies.

Zihuatanejo

 

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 15:25 | 6172164 rejected
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"They were heard, they had to be heard"

Guards don't patrol the areas any more" Union contract maybe... or maybe paid off.........naaaaaaaaa.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 15:32 | 6172188 Ms No
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What?  Inmates have not submitted to the motherland's snitch system?  This is an outrage!  Lobotomies for all!

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 15:33 | 6172192 Bluesquid
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I live 40 miles away from this prison. My great uncle was warden back in the day. someone just got fired.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 15:34 | 6172198 CarpetShag
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The guy on the left looks like Edward Norton.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 15:45 | 6172228 q99x2
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Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon are dangerous people and nothing to be trifled with.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 15:47 | 6172235 European American
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If they are smart enough to break out, then they're probably smart enough not to get caught. Maybe out of the country, already

 

"Sweat was serving a sentence of life without parole for killing a sheriff's deputy, while Matt was serving a sentence of 25 years to life for kidnapping a man and beating him to death".

 

Wonder if they were in for the same thing Andy was in for?

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 16:06 | 6172271 lakecity55
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Nah, jailbreak by those types of convix will bring down State Power, all cars alert.

Back whenI was toting a badge, we had a real good cop shot&killed by a lowlife, the kind of cop you wish they all were. The perp took his service pistol. I had never seen so many badges, everyone but the national fucking guard. The killer hid in the woods and opened fire on a searching officer. The coroner counted 54 bullet holes in the killer.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 16:01 | 6172268 lakecity55
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They were turnin' their lives aroun' when they committed those crimes. Another month and they would not have committed those crimes!

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 16:13 | 6172292 Rusputin
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Bovine excrement alart 1000!

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 16:26 | 6172315 are we there yet
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The criminals have crawled through sewers so they are ready to run for Congress.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 16:36 | 6172332 adr
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Wait a minute, they left a perfectly square piece of yellow paper with a computer generated design on it?

That isn't a hand drawn note and it looks perfectly clean. There isn't even a wrinkle on it. Through all of the cutting, climbing, etc the note didn't get a spec of dirt on it or a fold. With everything else they had to plan, these guys took the time to design a print a note on a computer? What for? 

I'm not saying this didn't happen but the more logical conclusion is that the two men here were killed and this is an elaborate false flag to set up another door to door illegal search so the terror cops can practice their tactics.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 16:49 | 6172344 Charming Anarchist
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Something stinks. 

When I read "On the note, a caricature of a man wearing a conical hat appears.." the 1st image that came to my mind was a loser with a dunce cap. The last thing that came to my mind was a chink.

Not any type of chink, mind you. A cartoon chink with bucked-teeth, slanted eyes and a "conical" hat! 

When I saw the photo of the post-it note, the 1st thing that came to my mind was the obvious:  the drawing is NOT a hand-drawing at all --- much less a drawing made by a guy who just made that escape. 

The post-it note "drawing" is clearly too neat, tidy and symmetrical for this to be real. It looks like a it was made with a computer graphics progam. 

 

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A picture is worth a thousand words:  give this prison more tax-dollars to make us safe!!!  That is the solution!

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 17:03 | 6172381 trader1
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YES!

I noticed the same peculiarity about that picture too. 

It is difficult for me to visualize these peeps perfecting professional precision in excuting an elaborate escape with a touch of humor.

Never judge books (or people) by their covers...or? ;-)

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 19:40 | 6172742 Charming Anarchist
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Never forget:  Apart from body language, animals can not read. In the animal world, judging "books" by their cover is all they got. 

Now, some philosophical/religious thread drift.  The above fact of nature cuts both ways. 

1) Animals have the intelligence to communicate and to teach/learn from 1 generation to an other without talking. We humans should learn from them. 

2) Animals do not lie.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 16:57 | 6172372 WTFUD
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O'Barry, Hildebeast, Chain-Gang Cheney, Bubba, the soon to be Race Relations Guru, Blair Grylls and the Rest of the WAR Criminals will never Break-Out when the time comes.

Still, beats me with all their listening, watching and other Patriotic Freedom Devices you can ESCAPE the Plantation.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 17:09 | 6172393 Dre4dwolf
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you cant really blame them i mean if you are going to spend the next 15 years in jail ....not much to do but plan an elaborate escape.... i really dont understand why people stay in prison.... you litterally have nothing to do but get out., its gota be fluoride in the prison food and brain washing that keeps them there

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 18:54 | 6172645 XqWretch
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Most prisons give prisoners "jobs." Probably helps keep their mind off of escaping. That and the threat of an additional 5 years, dont quote me on that, tagged on to your sentence.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 22:21 | 6173070 silverer
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Are there bartender jobs in prison?

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 19:08 | 6172657 PrimalScream
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IT APPEARS that there are now TWO open spots in the Clinton Correctional Facility.

Any suggestions for who might belong there?

Do they accept walk-ins???

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 20:02 | 6172790 Who was that ma...
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The way I figure it, this had to be an outside job.  An accomplice on the outside did most of the breaking IN by entering the manhole cover, perhaps weeks or even months ago.  All the prisoners had to do was to cut through the sheet metal walls of their cells with a small die grinder, power shear, or similar cutting tool, and the rest was already done for them.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 20:11 | 6172810 Who was that ma...
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Hey, I think I saw the skinny one with the beard doing stand up at the improv last night.  Fucking hilarious man, ya gotta hear his thing about the time he escaped from max security at Clinton.  Had me rolling on the floor.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 21:05 | 6172913 Hope Copy
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Note that the cell walls are the color of toothpaste....

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 22:19 | 6173067 silverer
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OK Gov.  We won't trifle with them, especially since you decided to disarm the general public.  So we'll just totally steer clear, lock ourselves in rabid fear inside our little cubicles, and leave it to you and NY's finest to find them.  

P.S.:  When do we get a chance to bid on the funny note?

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 22:44 | 6173119 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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Necessity is the mother of invention. If these guys get caught after all that planning I would be surprised. BIG Bro vs. Cons on the run. My money is on the Cons not getting detected by BIG Bro. given that the Cons must have known to plan the escape past the manhole exit cover. They would know to split up to avoid detection  and they would change their attire immediately too. If someone on the outside helped them escape it is unlikely they will surface anytime in the near future.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 22:55 | 6173138 22winmag
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A fine distraction from the Ukraine bodycount and Scuds raining down on Saudi Arabia.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 23:14 | 6173169 Ginsengbull
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How do they know that someone didn't break IN to get them out?

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 01:37 | 6173361 Jack Daniels Esq
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Chinese will hack anything

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 22:39 | 6177081 talisman
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If they ever get caught, Department of Homeland Security should hire them
as security systems consultants. 
These guys have extraordinary talent and competence

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