Prison break reveals lack of literary depth at the Canberra Times.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/03/25/iraq.tunnel/

From my high school maths, it sounds like they flushed somewhere between 7500 and 17000 cubic feet of dirt down the latrines. colonel Klink works for the americans now.

Fortress? Only because it’s technomological (and rubbish).

Papillon – gotta be one of the greatest escape stories ever.

Not a bad movie, great book, even if it is only partly autobiographical.

Count of Monte Christo (I forget the spelling). And isn’t that a type of toasted sandwich now?

Primal said :

Alcatraz was no match for David Copperfield.

Dickens … now there’s some literary cred.

Copperfield is no match for the Amazing (James) Randi (or Claudia Schiffer, apparently :P)

Alcatraz was no match for David Copperfield.

My personal favourite would have to be Colditz Castle, or Oflag IV-C the camp where the Germans kept prisoners who showed a penchant for escaping during world war two.

Who would have guessed that this approach would simply lead to a lot of escape attempts?

I want to see the “residents” of Belco remand build a Glider in their cell.

But Tomkinson did get to build a full scale model icebreaker. Lost points though on slowness to take advantage of Suki.

Surely Hogan’s Heroes is the benchmark for the escape caper.

Tomkinson was 17 miles from Greybridge before he was caught by the school leopard.

Ah yes, Escape from Alcatraz is one of my faves

I quite liked Clint Eastwood in “Escape from Alcatraz”.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079116/

Hint of truth, mostly fiction though.

This one in Colombo comes complete with electricity and lighting.

These guys in New Jersey used swimsuit girl pinups to hide the holes in their cell walls.

And this guy in Duesseldorf just mailed himself out.