The three women - one of them reportedly the girlfriend of one of the prisoners who escaped - arrived at the prison at 3am on Thursday morning and asked to be let inside to "chat and drink", police said.
Either those guards are really magnificently dumb or Brazil is even more awesome than I've heard.
Doesn't the Mirror just make stuff up? Or is that the Mail?
I was worried about 2, but I wasn't going to let that interfere with me spreading the rumor.
Actually, I misunderstood the article - I was thinking the inmates were women who seduced their own prison guards. But this version is nice, too.
Well, here it is the Daily News so that's solid! They provide a link to ReporterMT which seems to be a local Brasilian news orgamization. With bonus photos.
The second link is in pseudo-Spanish or something.
The Mirror isn't 100% reliable by any means, but it's a better bet than the Sun, the Mail or the Express.
The Sun recently demonstrated that it can't report on itself accurately.
7. If you want a short life but an interesting one, tell a Portuguese speaker that they speak pseudo-Spanish.
I just re-read the headline: "Women's prison mass jail break after inmates in dominatrix gear handcuff male guards expecting 'mass orgy'". That's probably why I thought it was a women's prison with inmates in dominatrix gear.
I'm confused by how they arrived at that headline, if the women arrived at 3 am to chat and drink, though and the boyfriend was one of the inmates.
That is sure a misleading headline. "Girlfriends use sexiness to help male prisoners escape from non-sexy male prison" is more accurate but less exciting. I mean it's still a little exciting but lacks that women's prison je ne sais quoi.
Life imitates art! The same thing happens in the never-released-on-DVD movie "Running Out of Luck", when Rae Dawn Chong helps Mick Jagger escape from a Brazilian prison.
It's less salacious, but makes the guards more mind-bogglingly egotistical. It's one thing to believe that your sex-deprived female inmates might want to have sex with you. It's another to believe that three women came in from outside because they were just dying to have kinky police sex with you.
14: Also has some echoes of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. I think McMurphy was supposed to escape but got too drunk, unlike Scatman Carothers (as a guard)--who came out better than in his other memorable Nicholoson film moment up on that mountain.
The story told by the OP headline is great. I really wish it were true. The actual story is bizarre but overall much less great.
In other bizarre news (although this one is tragic rather than hilarious): this may be the most horrible news story I've read in a while:
A 6-year-old boy in Missouri endured an emotional four-hour staged kidnapping because his family thought he was being too nice to people he didn't know, police said Thursday.
During his reported ordeal the boy was lured Monday into a pickup after getting off his school bus, tied up, threatened with a gun, taken to a basement where his pants were removed, and told he could be sold into sex slavery, police said.
The boy was told in the truck by Nathan Wynn Firoved, the aunt's co-worker, that he would never "see his mommy again," and he would be "nailed to the wall of a shed," the sheriff's statement said.
The boy started to cry, police said, and Firoved, 23, showed the child a gun and said he would be harmed if he didn't stop bawling. Firoved used plastic bags to tie the child's hands and feet, police said. He took his jacket and covered the boy's head so he couldn't see.
"The victim remained in the basement for some time before he was unbound and told to go upstairs, where the victim's family lectured him about stranger danger," the statement said.
Arguably a good idea if he never does see his mommy again on the strength of that.
Jesus christ, that is fucked up.
17: There's an update that I didn't read closely about how there was just a major molestation case in one of the families involved. And to 18, it does appear that he's been placed in a foster home, which seems like an extra tough transition after this ordeal.
Was J. Walter Weatherman involved?
Call me an old-fashioned soft-hearted fool if you must, but I still follow the old rule about no fake abductions before sixth grade.
Is it possible to read the story in the OP without imagining that everyone involved had perfectly groomed pubic hair?
23 gave me a new image for the line in Werewolves of London.
If the parents in 17 had wanted their kid to grow up to be an ideal candidate for the police force in the St. Louis area, they should have dressed in black face for the kidnapping.
Anyone remember the TAL where the camp counselor at some Jewish camp staged the elaborate KKK hoax, riding in on horseback and hoods and marching off all the (non-costumes) counselors? It was a short bit among many.
Wasn't there also a TAL bit in which a woman recounted how her father had terrorized her when she was a teenager returning home late one night?
Right. It's completely reasonable once the kids hit sixth grade.
Prior to that, you are limited to sneaking up on them in Minecraft wearing a Herobrine skin.
Is it possible to read the story in the OP without imagining that everyone involved had perfectly groomed pubic hair?
Given the digressions of the thread, by the time I read this comment I thought the OP was about the horrible "scared straight" incident. So, obviously, I was thrown.
OT and spoiler alert: Tigerclaw is a dick and a murderer.
32: In my office right now in Abidjan, and I can see a huge crowd celebrating in the stadium and in the surrounding streets - waiting for the team to arrive from Equatorial Guinea.
36: Awesome soccer intervention/comment from Expat Lurker. I'm getting nervous about the USWNT's chances in next summer's Women's World Cup - they lost to France for the first time ever this weekend and have struggled against top-ten sides.