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A Florida police station aquired a new tracker dog, and decided to put it through its paces. To do this, they asked a prisoner - a convicted murderer - to escape, so they could set the dog on him. He agreed, and was given a 30-minute head start. Despite the mutt's best efforts, he was never found.
A women was arrested for passing $100,000 worth of bad cheques, and was then allowed to post her bail - by cheque. Surprisingly, the cheque bounced. And even more astonishingly, she never turned up to her hearing.
124 prisoners escaped from a prison in Portugal on the same night. 200 knives and a huge amount of missing cable went unnoticed. Holes in cell walls were covered with posters. A huge stash of spades, drills and chisels remained undiscovered until after the escape. On the big night, one warder found 23 out of the 36 inmates on his block missing - but thought they were just hiding. The officers had to be told about the escape by an inmate who had not participated in the break.
A prisoner escaped from a prison in West Virginia using a rope made of dental floss. Despite using all his savings to buy dental floss, and borrowing other inmate's, wardens suspected nothing. The prisoner finally decided to make a break for freedom after he had woven the floss into an 18-foot-long rope, that was as thick as a telephone cord.