Authorities in Florida have captured the last of 12 prisoners who fled an Alabama county jail in a scheme involving peanut butter. ( Dreamstime )The Alabama peanut butter caper was not the most sophisticated jailbreak, but it did the trick. Some inmates in Walker County Jail in Jasper, Alabama saved peanut butter from their sandwiches and used it like modelling clay to help alter the number above a door that led to the outside. Read more: Inmates escape Alabama jail after using peanut butter to fool guard “Changing some numbers on the door with peanut butter — that may sound crazy,” the county sheriff, James E. Underwood, said at a news conference Monday. It was a human error that caused this to happen.” Built in 1998, Walker County Jail holds about 240 inmates and is surrounded by a razor-wire fence.

Source: thestar August 02, 2017 01:41 UTC