I'm being to think those (NY) prisoners may have called uber and are off

[CK_John]

to elsewhere.

[jberryhill]

1. How does one "call Uber"?

[JanMichael]

2. with a french horn. one that the prison guard gave them.

All jokes aside they may have been given street clothes and a trak phone by the woman that was arrested for aiding.

[Nye Bevan]

5. They were already in street clothes.

They were in the "honor block" which is a reward for good behavior and allows prisoners to wear street clothes.

I have a feeling that there might be a rethink of this policy.

[jberryhill]

8. Doesn't matter

She talked voluntarily for days prior to being finally arrested (the point being that as long as she was talking, there was no good reason to arrest her just yet), and it would have been pretty clear if she'd gotten them a smartphone.

Absent a credit card, you can't use Uber.

Somehow, the process of using a smurf to make cash purchases of a smartphone and prepaid debit card (since you don't want facial recognition to pick you up on checkout counter security video) and setting up an Uber account (which I'm not sure can be done with a prepaid debit card), seems a lot trickier than "pick us up at X", particularly since any Uber pickups and rides in and out of the area are pretty traceable.

I would be curious to know whether one can realistically set up a clean phone and debit card. The last time I looked at getting an unlocked flip phone to use with different SIM cards while traveling abroad, they all wanted some kind of account registration, even though there was no service "contract" per se. Outside of the US, you can pick up SIM cards from vending machines at airports, but if they have those here, I haven't noticed.

[CK_John]

4. That's a joke.

[pinboy3niner]

9. Ubergator will pick up ANYBODY

Apologies if you've already seen a raccoon riding an alligator today.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026838677

[underpants]

10. Über gator is such a horn dog

A few drinks and it's going home with anyone

[pinboy3niner]

11. To be fair, I don't think that masked bandit gave him any choice. nt

[underpants]

14. The accompanying music

[underpants]

15. Worst. Crossing the Delaware re-enactment. Ever.

[pinboy3niner]

16. LOL!

That cracked me up!

[Nye Bevan]

3. Obviously one of the first things the cops would have done

would have been to check with all the cab companies and Uber if they had picked up two guys there in the middle of the night. I hope.

[Tace]

6. It's As If They Didn't Count On The Getaway Car

When I read the accounts of the escape, it crosses my mind that these guys didn't rely on the supposed getway car to be driven by the lady inside the prison. I wonder if they had a backup (or primary) plan for getaway that worked perfectly.

[CK_John]

7. It's great for the local economy, the cops are spending a million a day in the search.

Maybe a couple of motel owners found them and have them tied up in the basement.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

19. That, or they're busy in the bakery, making doughnuts. nt

[jberryhill]

12. I would imagine a backup plan

At the end of the day, when it's your life on the line, any part of the plan that depends on someone else is a part that you have to be prepared will fail.

Where are those FBI planes and drones with IR?

[CK_John]

13. The prison factory they worked in made rent a guard uniforms. It's possible they mingled

in with the first police groups mustered in for the search and somehow got hold of a transportation and took off for Maine or NewFoundland.

[alcibiades_mystery]

17. It's crazy: no vehicles unaccounted for, certainly all their known contacts have been vetted by now

No other prison-based contacts seem to be implicated.

Hell, a former contact may have left them a car and it's totally off radar, but that's a big risk for a jailhouse buddy.

They up and vanished like a fart in the wind, as the actor says.

[cwydro]

18. Lol!

They've certainly made the prison AND the authorities look pretty bad.