Using bed sheets, 5 prisoners escape Lebanese jail

Holy sheet!

That old trick?

the prisoners were allowed to watch too much american tv.

George Bush was sitting in his oval office wondering which country to invade next, when his telephone rang. "Hallo, Mr. Bush", said a heavily accented voice. "This is Abu-l-Abed, down here at 'ahwet l-Rawche. I am callin' to tell you dat we are officially declaring war on you!"......................
"Well Archie," Bush replied, "This is indeed important news! How big is your army?"
"Right now," said Abul Abed, after a moment's calculation "there is myself, my cousin Maroun, my next-door-neighbor Abu Yussef, and the whole team from the 'ahwe. That makes eight!"
Bush paused. "I must tell you Abu-l-Abed, that I have one million men in my army waiting to move on my command." ........"Holy jeez," said Abu-l-Abed. "I'll have ta call you back!"

Sure enough, the next day, Abu-l-Abed called again. "Mr. Bush, the war is still on! We have managed to acquire some infantry equipment!"
"And what equipment would that be Abul Abed?", Bush asked. "Well sir, we have two Mercedes 180, and a truck." Bush sighed. "I must tell you Abu-l-Abed, that I have 16,000 tanks and 14,000 armoured personnel carriers. Also I've increased my army to one and a half million since we last spoke."
"Ya lateef", said Abu-l-Abed, "I'll be getting back to you."

Sure enough, Abu-l-Abed rang again the next day. "Mr. B, the war is still on! We have managed to get ourselves airborne! We modified a helicopter wiz a couple of shotguns in the cockpit, and four more neighbors have joined us as well!" Bush was silent for a minute then cleared his throat. "I must tell you Abu-l-Abed that I have 10,000 bombers and 20,000 fighter planes. My military complex is surrounded by laser-guided, surface-to-air missile sites. And since we last spoke, I've increased my army to TWO MILLION!" "Lah lah lah lah," said Abul Abed, "I'll have to call you back."

Sure enough, Abu-l-Abed called again the next day. "Mr. Bush! I am sorry to have to tell you dat we have had to call off dis war." "I'm sorry to hear that" said Bush. "Why the sudden change of heart?"
"Well, sir," said Abu-l-Abed, "we all sat down and had a long chat, and come to realize dat dere's no way we can feed two million prisoners."

I'm guessing their "high security" prison is the equivalent our Mayberry RFD's Barney Fife security... a joke. Why else would each prisoner get 2 sheets and 2 blankets? Just for such escapes!

Members of al-Quida escaping from a Muslim prison. Imagine that!

I thought those stuff happened only in movies! bed sheets!!!!

High security? What did they have them in, a play pen?

A high security prison? This is the oldest trick in the book!

They found them by following a trail of bed bugs.

Keystone cops stuff. The more things change the more they stay the same.

How much money the guards got?

The sheets were made of 1200 thread-count Egyptian cotton. So, even Fat Ali was able to rappel down the prison wall safely.

Now you know the rest of the story.

For a minute i thought that said lesbian jail! lol

wow inmates have brains.

After months of meticulous planning 2 bedsheets were tied together to circumvent the High Security at the Lebanese prison. Ahhhhhh..... the old bedsheet into a ladder trick... May want to inform the Lebanese about the "file in the cake" trick as well.

It is simply AMAZING that the bed-sheet trick STILL works............in a high-security prison no less - I love it!

I was wondering about who bought those 5 bedsheets from me on Ebay for $10 BuyItNow.

lol... that sounds like something out of a cartoon!

Let;s make a hollywood movie out of this ...