Prisoner's Spend Months Digging Tunnel - It Was 30cm Too Short- Caught

[matcom]

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A GANG of prisoners at a Brazilian jail spent months planning a breakout and digging a tunnel in their bid for freedom only to emerge in the prison yard.

The prisoners, at Timoteo prison in southern Brazil, emerged from their tunnel, which had reportedly taken the 67 men months to complete, just 30cm short of the main perimeter wall.
Prison guards, who had discovered the escape plan but decided to wait and see what would happen, were waiting at the tunnel's exit for the men to emerge and promptly took the crestfallen prisoners back to their cells, Journal da Globo reported last week.

"They were so frustrated and we could not hold back our laughter, they were so dumb," a guard told the newspaper.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16259413-13762,00.html

[GCP]

1. For the metrically challenged - that's a foot too short

Better luck next time.

[DS1]

4. judging by the report, I'd say they were about 2 miles short

[Wickerman]

2. That was just mean

Prison guards, who had discovered the escape plan but decided to wait and see what would happen, were waiting at the tunnel's exit for the men to emerge

[SouthernDem2004]

3. Kind of funny actually.

[Shell Beau]

5. I think it is funny! If I were a guard, I probably would

have done the same thing. That is what they get. I wonder what they were in for? I do think of Shawshank Redemtion when I hear these kind of stories. Of course I was rooting for him to escape!

[underpants]

6. Measure twice-dig once

as Bob Villa would say

[northzax]

7. someone's been watching too many Steve McQueen movies

I don't know why they insist on showing it every movie night...