5 Most Creative Prison Breaks
in the 1600s Dutch author Hugo
Grotius
found himself at the mercy of the
courts
when his writings about natural law
and
justice butted heads with the
established religious beliefs of
the
country after being imprisoned in
analyzing the movements of the
guards
grotius hid away in a three and a
half
foot book chest and was
subsequently
moved out of the prison and onto a
ship
after a few close calls by the
guards
regarding the immense weight of the
book
chest Grotius found himself
transported
to a city in the Netherlands
made his final escape Jack Shepard
made
breaking out of prisons his
specialty a
carpenter's apprentice who had
taken to
crime to pay for his lavish
lifestyle
was seized by the authorities and
imprisoned a number of times in London
only to make daring escapes every
time
his means of escape changing every
time
Shepard broke through ceilings
utilized
bedsheets his ropes and even
cross-dressed his way to freedom
making
fools of the guards having made a
name
for himself as a local hero
Shepards
next Escape included maneuvering
his way
out of a pair of handcuffs
barreling
through six bar doors and busting
through the prison ceiling to
freedom no
prison seemed sturdy enough to keep
Shepherd from escape which is why
upon
his next capture he was quickly
hung in
public famed bank robber John
Dillinger
was as keenly crafty as he was
dangerous
after his first prison escape in
which a
group of gang members freed him by
murdering the guards Dillinger
found
himself in a noon on escapable cell
with
a potato shoe polish a razor and a
will
to break free he carved the potato
into
the shape of a handgun painted it
black
with a shoe polish and finally
managed
to escape using the fake gun as a
threat
to nearby prison guards he
disappeared
soon after that for a number of
weeks
though his frivolous lifestyle
eventually became his downfall
after the FBI caught wind of Dillinger's
movements in the outside world he
was
killed in a shootout outside a
movie
theater the famed Alcatraz
prison has
been home to many daring escapes
but few
if any survivors past the rough
ocean
waters that didn't stop three
prisoners
in 1962 whose plans included
digging
into ventilation ducts with stolen
cafeteria
spoons and creating paper mache
heads to
sit in their beds and hide their
disappearances from guards after
they
reached the roof of the prison and
crossed the heavily fenced Coast
they
got a board a makeshift raft made
of
raincoats and cement adhesive and
sailed
away into the sea they were never
heard
from again Mexican drug lord
Joaquin
Guzman aka El Chapo laughed in the
face
of prison constructs rich from his
drug
trafficking empire El Chapo's first
stays in prison ended after he
reportedly paid off guards and
police to
aid his escape he subsequently hid
in
the Mexican mountains for 13 years
after
breaking free but then found
himself in
custody once again his next prison
visit
ended with a tunnel dug under his
shower
leading to another mile-long tunnel
almost six feet tall where el chapo
drove a motorcycle to a nearby
construction site and his freedom
El
Chapo recently was the feature of a
number of media headlines after he
professed to the public his hatred
of
American businessman and Republican
candidate for president Donald
Trump he
was recaptured in January after
inviting
a movie about his escapes