A Street Lamp Named Escape

Ok, it ain't exactly Tennessee Williams, more like the Three Stooges, but it was a fun play on the title of that famous play. A Bosnian man serving a seven year sentence in an Austrian prison for burglary escaped by disguising himself as a street lamp. Ok, actually he had himself shrinkwrapped inside a pallet of street lamp parts that were made in the prison. When they picked up the parts, the man simply went out the doors in the back of the truck.

The man, named as Muradif H., had been serving a seven-year term for burglary in the southern provincial city of Graz and was due for release in 2012.

Kronen said Muradif, who had a prison job making parts for street lamps, had himself wrapped in plastic with finished parts on a pallet and loaded into a truck Tuesday.

Ten minutes after leaving the prison, the truck driver said he noticed a rip in the tarpaulin covering the pallets and stopped to check.

"Just at this moment I got a call on my mobile phone from the prison: 'Did you notice anything? We are missing an inmate'," the truck driver was quoted as saying on Kronen's Web site.

Says rather a lot about the security at the prison, doesn't it?