prisoner mails himself to freedom

[Amby 490]

An inmate escaped from jail in Germany by posting himself out of prison in a giant FedEx box of dirty laundry.

Drug dealer Hans Lang, 42, hid in the laundry room after other inmates had finished work there and bundled himself up in dirty bed sheets in the large box.

The package was then loaded onto a van and driven through the gates at the prison in Willich near Dusseldorf.

He is understood to have waited until the driver made his next stop before getting out of the box, picking the lock on the back of the van and running off into nearby woods.

It was only discovered that he was missing after the driver saw the empty box and realised the lock to his van had been picked from the inside.

A spokesman for police who are now hunting him said: "It's the kind of thing people think only happens in films - but in this case it is very real."

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3084236.html?menu=

[HAL 9000 96]

WOW!!

Why couldn't he deliver himself somewhere cool though?

[Ban Hammer 13,349]

the world on time - i wonder if he'll get a refund as the package wasn't delivered.

[HAL 9000 96]

the world on time - i wonder if he'll get a refund as the package wasn't delivered.

Good point. He should definitely pursue this.

[JayJay 4]

Yah, but wouldn't it have been really hilarious if the FedEx driver's next stop had been another prison...then, he could have picked the lock o the van, gotten out and been surrounded by a fresh batch of prison guards in a totally different prison!

Okay, I know, I'm odd...

[Ban Hammer 13,349]

Yah, but wouldn't it have been really hilarious if the FedEx driver's next stop had been another prison...then, he could have picked the lock o the van, gotten out and been surrounded by a fresh batch of prison guards in a totally different prison!

Okay, I know, I'm odd...

and it was in another country

how you doing jayjay?

[Chica Yeyé 41]

WOW!!

Why couldn't he deliver himself somewhere cool though?

No kidding.

[Nagishkaw 510]