El Rey
Just in case you thought 1981′s “Victory” (or “Escape to Victory” if you’re Two Yellows) was the only prison escape to involve a football, here’s a little something from the good folks over at the BBC News website. The headline? “Two Escape from an Argentine Jail Guarded by a Dummy”…No, there’s no Diego Maradona joke here, instead:
Two prisoners have escaped from a jail in Argentina, reportedly while it was using a dummy to man one of its guard towers. Prison staff said a lack of resources meant that only two out of their 15 guard towers were occupied at any given time. They told a local newspaper they put a football with a prison officer’s cap in a third, to create the illusion of an extra guard.
The prison guards, at least, had a sense of humor about the situation that led to the escape:
We’ve made a dummy out of a football and a prison officer’s cap, so that the prisoners see its shadow and think they’re being watched. We named him Wilson, like in the film Cast Away, and put him in one of the towers.
The two escapees are still at large, though authorities suspect that they are on their way to Paris to meet with the French Resistance.
