12 Alabama inmates used peanut butter to trick worker in their escape from jail: Sheriff

[malaise]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/inmates-loose-12-escape-alabama-jail/story?id=48941957
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A dozen Alabama inmates cooked up a plot to hoodwink a worker at the Walker County Jail, using peanut butter to change the number above a door to the outside and tricking the employee into opening it, Walker County Sheriff James Underwood said at a news conference this afternoon.

Underwood said a recent hire at the jail was in the control room keeping count of some inmates when the inmates asked to get a door opened.

But inmates had used peanut butter to change the number on that door. So when the employee hit the button Sunday, thinking it was a cell door, the door to the outside opened and "out the door they went," Underwood said.

[jberryhill]

1. Ah, the old peanut butter on the door number trick

[malaise]

2. 11 of them are back in prison

First I heard if that trick

[jberryhill]

4. it works better with crunchy instead of plain

That's where they slipped up.

[Renew Deal]

3. Pretty brilliant