Oh, it's just a box: inmate escapes from German prison, Solid Snake style

Posted Nov 16, 2008 at 11:21AM by QJ Staff Listed in: PS3, PSP Tags: Solid Snake
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Turkish inmate escapes jail in cardboard box, Solid Snake approves - Image 1Being a slow news day, we have time for a quick laugh.

Think Solid Snake hiding under a cardboard box is as ridiculous as Clark Kent's glasses? Well, think again. Some guy in a German prison managed to cut his sentence short thanks to a cardboard box.

The 42-year-old Turkish citizen climbed into the cardboard box and mailed himself out of prison. By express courier no less. If they ever suspected that it moved, they probably thought "oh, it's just box."

Once the courier passed through the gates, the inmate cut a hole in the tarp and made a run for it. The man is still at large, but is already  forever part of the "Cardboard Box" entry in the Metal Gear Wiki.

Via BBC

 
 
 

Comments

by mortician10101 - 2008-11-16 11:32:21
omg first post

in an epic news article!! this man = a genius.
by kupomogli - 2008-11-16 11:35:46
I've been in a cardboard box before.

I dunno, but possibly before Metal Gears release in 1987. Konami stole my idea!
by Rikichan - 2008-11-16 11:44:35
O_o

Okay, it is funny, but I'd wait until the guy gets caught before making jokes about it.
by mortician10101 - 2008-11-16 11:47:08
no they didn't

it's called Zeitgeist... many ppl thinking things at the same time. the idea of a collective mind...you aren't the only "genius" in the world :P
by Nathanias - 2008-11-16 11:54:14
Good job snake

Now that you have escaped the prisoner torture facility, regroup with Meryl in the Rhinelands
by hairycanary2 - 2008-11-16 12:49:42
That's pretty smart of that

Guy. How the hell did he close the top box covers? I guess he had some help ?
by MARTINSTATIC - 2008-11-16 13:24:06
Good point

Yeah, they probably checked the sellotape for finger prints.
by NarooN - 2008-11-16 13:40:37
hmm.

1) This guy is epic. I don't know what he did to become an inmate, but that was smart thinking. 2) Wonder if he ever played MGS? :p 3) I'm waiting for Jack Thompson's response. It's coming.
by PCEngineSHMUP - 2008-11-16 14:36:40
Could apply to real life...

I guess we all need to apply tactics we learn in videogames to real life situations, could learn a great deal from it.
by MADMAN-_-zZ - 2008-11-16 15:09:47
....

I keep thinking... how could someone pick up that box, most likely 2 people had to lift it and not be sus of the contents lol.
by y2bangali - 2008-11-16 15:49:09
how i would

do it is: already have the box taped on the top, then have a lot of long tapes hanging on the bottom.. then go in and move around inside 2 make it stick.. not that hard..lol..
by houaruto - 2008-11-16 18:25:16
yeah was a student of mine

he learns quick in after dropping the soap
by Quanghuy - 2008-11-16 18:58:08
Urrr

Mortician, I'm pretty sure Kupo was just being sarcastic, you didn't have to take it so seriously, literal much lol? I don't see anywhere that he claimed to be a genius either, and of course lots of people have hidden in boxes, hell people have probably been doing before the dawn of video games, it's almost common sense, no need to bring it up. :P
by chessboxer - 2008-11-16 19:55:34
maybe

he has octocamo. If he doesn't move and keeps to the ground/against the wall when people are around, it'll be extremely hard to spot him.
by Matt-N - 2008-11-16 20:02:43
...

Yeah, Thompson is gonna love this lol.
by andre_euro - 2008-11-16 20:11:21
heh

see a monster walking past(ugly chick), slash it with your sword(stab with a knife and gap it). :P
by spicyhamster - 2008-11-16 20:22:16
this man

deserves to be free.
by jac_the_ripper - 2008-11-16 21:02:34
haha

i wanna be an inmate too, i wanna be in prison. this guy= an EPIC MASTER MIND!!
by xlemuelx - 2008-11-16 22:28:59
as always slower

its last weeks news, but qj always delivers detailed news
by ro0kie42 - 2008-11-16 22:51:40
He must be pretty smart.

Have you ever picked up a box with someone in it? The weight distribution is waaaaaaay off. It becomes pretty obvious that whatever's in it isn't a "normal" item. So either: the box was small enough that any abnormal weight distribution was unnoticed or he put other objects in the box to balance it out. Either way, he must have thought these things through ahead of time.
by NakedFaerie - 2008-11-17 05:14:00
lol

HAHAHAHAHAHA!
by JaXeRiR - 2008-11-17 07:17:02
Just wait...

...till MGS gets banned in German prisons xD
by StingBlah - 2008-11-17 09:06:13
good luck

that's all i can say. And pack a few bottles of lube--you'll be glad you did...
by LordRussell - 2008-11-17 10:08:42
That's all we need!!!

LOL... The "Save the Children" ***holes are already looking for excuses to ban video games. Now my youngest son won't be allowed to spin in a hypersonic fashion and collect golden rings...
by LordRussell - 2008-11-17 10:11:13
Or

Pack your ass with steel wool. They don't flame newbies the same way they do on the internet...
by Slipstream0 - 2008-11-17 11:01:27
not to mention

how did he manage to not have the box just rip open??? thats some amazing cardboard right there.
by WingedPaladin - 2008-11-17 15:19:00
BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7730018.stm
by WilLoW :--) - 2008-11-17 17:31:48
He has to go back

I think he forgot to take his brother with him. That's why it didn't take him 26 episodes, unlike that other guy... Oh, wait, wrong reference, you guys where talking about MGS...
by WingedPaladin - 2008-11-17 19:57:40
Old Similar Idea

This technique is not unlike how Annie smuggled herself out of the orphanage via laundry basket.
by tinjastin - 2008-11-18 08:22:13
nice idea!

well i hope after he escaped, he gets his Bandana to make him invincible... hehe! thats pure genius imagine no one suspects that there was a man in a box!... all of them are veen fooled! well he deserve to escape hehe! nice job to him ...

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