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muriel_volestrangler

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Thu Oct 5, 2017, 07:36 PM Oct 2017

Prison escapees caught at Canadian escape room interactive game

They scaled the tall barbed wire fence and escaped without trace into the industrial park surrounding the prison in Edmonton, Canada. But within 24 hours, the two fugitives – perhaps keen to again try their luck – were found by police in a nearby “escape room” interactive game.

The two women, Kelsie Laine Marie Mast, 23, and Samantha Faye Toope, 20, were discovered missing from the women’s correctional facility on Monday night during an inmate count. Police soon issued a public warning, describing them as violent offenders with a history of weapons offences.

The following day, as police across the city searched for the women, the pair wandered into the escape room, where customers are locked in a room and must solve a variety of puzzles and challenges to get out.

“They said they were from out of town, and weren’t familiar with escape rooms and asked if they could see one,” said Rebecca Liaw of SideQuests Adventures. She and her husband Jonathan, who co-own the business, were working that night along with another staff member who was in a back room.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/05/canada-prison-escapees-caught-escape-room
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Prison escapees caught at Canadian escape room interactive game (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Oct 2017 OP
Whoops: "werent familiar with escape rooms and asked if they could see one" FSogol Oct 2017 #1

FSogol

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1. Whoops: "werent familiar with escape rooms and asked if they could see one"
Wed Oct 25, 2017, 04:42 PM
Oct 2017

Too funny, their fatal flaw is they don't know when to stop escaping.

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