Prisoner Uses Metal Gear's Cardboard Box to Escape
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Wow. Absolutely amazing. This guy is crafty.
Don't get me wrong, Melee was awesome, but Brawl is getting dusty on my shelf.
I bet if he did the next one would suck way less.ThePeiceOfEden said:
Don't get me wrong, Melee was awesome, but Brawl is getting dusty on my shelf.
If this guy wasn't a double murder suspect this would be the feel good story of the year. It's still amazingly cool on his part to actually use something so ludicrous as the cardboard box disguise to get past prison guards. I wonder if they saw the box move, would a question mark appear over their head?
I'm not sure how many people actually hate the French but I'd think it'd only be the Algerians or the Moroccans in the audience who actually have a real gripe with them. I love all of my French friends and if they weren't all gay I'd let them love me back. Like most of my jokes about a country's occupants or an ethnicity it's just a way to make them less of a big deal between me and my friends. It doesn't matter if it's only teasing and it humanises them as opposed to dehumanising them. Because then they'd cry.
P.S. I mean no offence to anyone's French. I'm a kiwi so if you want to make a crack about sheep shagging or there being only 2 people in the country then send them to me in a PM.
Jealous of those unshaven underarms. I kid, of course.phatty500 said:
I'm not sure how many people actually hate the French but I'd think it'd only be the Algerians or the Moroccans in the audience who actually have a real gripe with them. I love all of my French friends and if they weren't all gay I'd let them love me back. Like most of my jokes about a country's occupants or an ethnicity it's just a way to make them less of a big deal between me and my friends. It doesn't matter if it's only teasing and it humanises them as opposed to dehumanising them. Because then they'd cry.
P.S. I mean no offence to anyone's French. I'm a kiwi so if you want to make a crack about sheep shagging or there being only 2 people in the country then send them to me in a PM.
Pure genius. This guy should be awarded a medal for 'Most Awesome Escape'. It'd put Houdini to shame.
N.B. I'm sure he'd appreciate a cookie too.
N.B. I'm sure he'd appreciate a cookie too.
AWESOME article.CantFaketheFunk said:Prisoner Uses Metal Gear's Cardboard Box to Escape
Think Solid Snake's "tactical cardboard box action" is just a gameplay mechanic to sneak past guards? You'd be wrong: A prisoner used a cardboard box to escape from custody in a French prison.
45-year-old Jean-Pierre Treiber, a double murder suspect and one of France's highest-profile prisoners, must have been a fan of Metal Gear Solid, judging by his escape yesterday from a high-security prison. Treiber managed to elude detection by packing himself into a cardboard box he had constructed in the Auxerre, Burgundy prison workshop, reports the Telegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/6163821/Prisoner-escapes-jail-in-cardboard-box.html].
The box was then loaded onto a truck for delivery to France's Yonne region and driven away, much like how Solid Snake could ship himself between different regions of the Outer Heaven fortress in the first Metal Gear game. During the 100-mile journey, Treiber cut himself free and jumped from the truck, an act that was only discovered once the driver had reached his destination and found a hole cut in the tarp used to cover the boxes.
The prison break has caused embarrassment in French officials, who have been unable to explain how a simple cardboard box could fool guards who have been fitted with the latest nanomachines and given genetic therapy that renders them superhuman (with the drawback that they can only see twenty or so feet in front of them). The authorities have begun a manhunt to catch the escaped Treiber, out of fear that his unrestrained presence may cause a public panic due to unnecessarily long and heavy-handed cutscenes.
One might argue that this escape attempt would only hurt Treiber's case, as he has been in prison since 2004 awaiting trial, charged with strangling French actor Roland Giraud's daughter Geraldine, and her friend Katia Lherbier. Though Giraud claims that this escape is proof of Treiber's guilt in the murder of his daughter, supporters of Treiber's innocence point to mysterious DNA traces on the adhesive used to gag Lherbier and Giraud's mouths that does not match his own. Treiber's lawyer says that it proves nothing:
"One can either say he's guilty and that this is proof of his guilt... or one can say he's desperate, that he no longer has faith in the justice system because he's pleaded his innocence for so long and hasn't been heard."
Whether guilty or innocent, The Escapist would like to suggest that if/when the French authorities recapture Trebier, they consider an alternative beyond incarceration and train him as a supersoldier to destroy nuclear-equipped walking battle tanks and to pontificate on the nature of war.
(Via Kotaku [http://kotaku.com/5356261/metal-gear-style-cardboard-box-prison-escape])
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If someone escaped from MY prison like that, I'd want to shake their hand! I wouldn't even be mad, that's amazing!
