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Inmates in Alabama jailbreak did not need a weapon to escape. They had peanut butter.
Washington Post
A dozen inmates escaped from an Alabama jail not by cutting through steel bars, drilling through walls or ripping a toilet from a wall.
They used peanut butter.
Walker County Sheriff Jim Underwood told reporters Monday that the inmates used peanut butter to make the number of a door leading outside look like the number of one of the internal cell doors. They then asked an unsuspecting jail guard, who was in the control room keeping count of inmates through a camera, to open the door. He did, thinking he was letting the inmates back into their cell.
But unknown to the guard, he had inadvertently unlocked the door that opened to the outside.
“That may sound crazy, but these people are crazy like a fox,” Underwood said.
Underwood said the inmates’ plan was “well laid out,” and they took advantage of an inexperienced employee.