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You've got a pickle, a snowglobe and a pool noodle. What will your legendary jailbreak be?

Many real-life prison escapes happened in ways one would not expect. Choi Gap-bok squeezed through a food slot to get out of his jail cell. Jack Sheppard was an 18th century prison break celebrity after pulling off the bedsheet rope trick a few times. Frank Abagnale actually convinced his guard that he was the prison inspector. Three Parkhurst Prison escapees actually created their own master key as part of their legendary breakout.

Compared with those, the task that lies ahead of you should seem like child's play.
You're in jail. Having managed to gather the three items crucial to your escape - those being a snowglobe, pool noodle, and a pickle - you must now conduct your escape plan. How will you do it?

The conditions are:
1. Your plan has to be possible to execute within 12 hours
2. You have to get out of jail in a condition allowing for further escape
3. You have to use all three items
4. You do not have help within the prison

Tell us in a comment how you're going to pull it off, but make sure to fit your plan in 100 words or less! Post your entry no later than Friday, February 20th at 4:59 PM GMT

- 1 post per person, any edits to be made within 3 hours of posting
- Winners will be announced no later than February 27th

We will choose 3 winners - each of them will get a swag bag from Team 17, publishers of The Escapists (incl. a towel, a hoodie and "prison soap") and 5 GOG.com gift codes to aid them in their jailbreak ploy. We’ll also pick honorable mentions and reward them with a GOG.com gift code each!
Post edited February 17, 2015 by GOG.com
It’s night. I break the snow globe and pour the water over my crotch. I call for Frank the guard, saying that I wet my pants and that I need a new pair. Frank opens my cell and I stuff the pickle into Frank’s mouth. Due to his allergy, he suffers a fit, and I steal his keys. The keys take me outside to the lake surrounding the prison island. The nearby prison boat is heavily secured, so I can’t steal it, but the pool noodle makes sure that I reach the shore without drowning.
My Plan

Put pickle under snowglobe in sack. go to bathroom. fiercely rub poolnoodle between butt cheeks. discard poolnoodle. scream help. tell guards I am an inspector that was going to see if the warden deserved the commemorative snow globe of the year (and I show the globe). but was taken by prisoners for entertainment. Ask to see the warden immediately to discuss problems. The warden always eats at this hour, his foods here but he isn't. he has lethal pickle allergy. I put pickle on food. he comes, he eats food and dies. I take his clothes and leave the prison.

the 100 word limit hurt a lot.... oh well at least I managed it.
Post edited February 13, 2015 by coxdr
Tropical prison escape:

However long the pickle has been in my pocket, it looks bad. I trade it to the guard for a cigarette. He does not give me the cigarette, and gulps the pickle down. I sulk. After an hour, the guard leaves suddenly. I use the snowglobe to focus sunlight and melt a small but critical section of the lock. I follow the guard to the bathroom. Before he can relieve himself, I knock him out. He soils himself. I flush the toilet, hold my breath, and jump in, holding on to the pool noodle to carry me through and out.
We are all out in the prison yard for exercise. It's extremely cold and no one wants to be outside right now.
Nearly time to go back inside. Eat half the pickle and throw the rest on the ground. The guard sees me, shouts and rants about littering and gives me the broom, I am on cleanup duty, how sad, while everyone goes back to their nice warm cells.

I sweep for a bit, shivering in the cold, and jumping around to keep warm till it's dark. Take the handle off the broom and use it in the pool noodle. Throw the now frozen snow globe at the guard in the tower knocking him out, vault over the prison fence and just walk away:)
Post edited February 13, 2015 by Moonbeam
Open the cell door and walk out to freedom.

Any prison/jail that allows someone to get a hold of a snow globe and a 'pool noodle' probably isn't real big on having things like guards...or locks.
Desert prison escape:

I put the pool noodle on the scorching sand and wait until the plastic bursts into flames, belching toxic smoke. The guards quickly fall while I breathe through the pickle, trusting the acidic vinegar to neutralise the smoke. I find a key on a guard that has fallen close to my cell, unlock it, and run into the desert. The snowglobe provides me with drinking water until I find a small village far from anywhere where I live the rest of my life.
Night.
Wait for the guard shift.
Break the snow globe.
Make a slippery paste pouring the globe water on the floor, mixed with pickle sliced using glass fragments.
Tie the globe base to the noodle. Loudly break the lights.
The guard enters, slips on that mess. Knock him out when he falls. Put on his uniform, tie him to the bed using his belt, gag him with the noodle, cover him with bedspread.
Close the cell, proceed to the locker room, steal his civilian clothes and car to escape unnoticed. Plenty of time to flee, the shift has just ended.
Fashion police prison escape:

I break the snowglobe and use the water and a shard of glass to wash and shave. I tie the pool noodle loosely around my neck, eat the pickle, and call the guard. He notices my appearance and takes me to the warden, who agrees that my clean face, natty tie, and fresh breath have changed his opinion of me and that I no longer present a danger to society. He arranges with the parole board to let me go.
Put all three items on the table.
Go to sleep hoping you will figure out how the hell did you end up having these items in your cell and how they might help you with the escaping.
Wake up, do some pushovers.
Trade the items for few bucks. They always come in handy, right?
Use Goku's teleportation techique.
Enjoy your freedom.
Post edited February 14, 2015 by zambrey
Wildly 'zigzag'ing across recreation yard's edge wielding a pickle stolen from dining The Prisoner waves bright neon pool noodle as bait. Guards respond, falsely secure in pairs, to subdue buffoonery. No one suspects escape with "innocent" gifts from his granddaughter.

Lunging at the first officer the prisoner pickles the guard’s eyes into yellowish vile brine blindness. Officer two, gun in hand, stalls - confused by Prisoner's novelty snowglobe which forcefully whacks him meticulous not to dirty the indispensable uniforms. The deathly snowglobe is a toy no more, hastily entombed with corpses behind brush. For lunch a uniformed "prisoner" clocks off grounds.
Post edited February 14, 2015 by undeadcow
I'm in a women's prison. I stuff the pool noodle in my prison overalls to create a visible bulge. I call the warden who immediately recognises that I'm in the wrong cells and arranges a transfer to the male wing. During transit I smash the warden with the pickle. The pickle has become mush which has seeped in to his eyes rendering the poor warden blind. I rip off the prison wardens uniform, take keys and wander out of the prison as a free woman.

But what about the search lights.....surely they would have seen the incident? Camera zooms in to a tiny slow globe placed in just the right spot to reflect light sources.

edit: grammar
Post edited February 14, 2015 by pigdog
Too long to count but..

Right then..

Here's goes...

I Shout "I'll never break coppers! You'll never break me!"

A minute later I shout, "You broke me!"

Fake the hanging of myself with the pool noodle forcing a guard to come in. Hit him with glittery snow globe once he's close enough. I then taste the glitter. It tastes glittery. Yummy. (I had to get locked up for some reason!!)

Take shard of glass. Drag unconscious guard with me, threatening to "cut 'im from ear to ear like" the Joker would threaten Batman. Slowly, around 5-6 hours or so, creep through the prison still holding guard and saying, "any sudden moves and I open 'im up like a Christmas present, sunshine!" as I move. Taste glitter a bit more. Boo! It's gone off. That's a shame.

I reach the Head Prison Warden's room, still dragging guard.

"I got my eyes on you. He's got family ya know! Let him see them again. Stay well away, coppers and he just might!" I issue off a patented warning glare that I learned off my thirteen year old niece. It looks a bit Zoolander-ish on a 40 year old bearded bloke though.

Once inside, ignore the Head Warden's rants, and put on calming music and wonder why the whole prison can't hear "wake me up, before you go go...". I sing along.

I stop, get all serious like, and hold pickle aloft my rather nuts head deceivingly and scream "I've got a grenade! I've got a grenade. I'm crazy! Ya'll know it! You saw me taste the glitter like it was sherbet!"

Pause. Taste glitter... It's still off.

"I'll do it! I'll blow the whole prison up! I want a helicopter, some crocs, a beer, some Pizza Hut meat feast pizza and passage to Mexico or we bury a prison full of people!"

I wait for said chopper whilst listening to the calming sounds of the likes of "Thriller!", "more than a feeling" and "who let the dogs out!"

Several hours pass by drawing time to just within the twelve hour period...

Cue helicopter landing gloriously in Mexico sunshine. Hopefully with me on it and with the sniper having missed my head upon earlier lift off...

A lens flare flickers out off the metal frame. Sand swirls around causing a fog. A pickle is thrown down to the sandy Mexico beach. A man in a prison suit steps off the helicopter... Crocs hit the sand.

It's me.

The bullet killed the pilot accidentally, but I'd done my time, I'd learned to fly a helicopter in the library planning the escape. The noodle had been used as practice helicopter propeller and throttle whilst I sat in solitary confinement for doing silly things to bigger prisoners...

I know the cops will be searching for me. They will have bugged the helicopter, or the pizza, or the crocs. But I don't care. I'll make for the border... Guess which one?

"Hey you there, you know where I can get glitter?" I ask a young group of cool Mexican kids.
Post edited February 14, 2015 by javac
- Break snow globe
- Use glass shard to cut a 20 cm piece of the pool noodle
- Insert pointy glass shard in tip of pickle
- Hold pickle between fingers, with glass shard away from self
- Pick up cut pool noodle piece with other hand
- Place one hole over mouth
- Cover other hole with pickle hand upside-down while still holding pickle
- Aim at primary electrical line outside
- Blow to launch pickle and cut electrical line
- Escape with other prisoners while power is down
Gameplay:
1. Holloween night.
2. Break snowglobe to yield broken glass, plastic disk, and plastic mini-santa-claus.
3. Combine glass and pool noodle.
4. Combine the pickle, plastic disk, and mini-santa-clause.
5. Use "glass incrusted pool noodle" on telephone pole.
6. Knock telephone pole over onto fense, crushing it.
7. Walk along the telephone pole.
8. Place "present for warden" on the end of the telephone pole.
9. Walk into nearby town along with all the other custumed people.
10. Live in freedom, knowing you mocked the warden!
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JudasIscariot: You may know it as a water log :P
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Sachys: probably not - wikipedia is as useful as a pot noodle is for floating in a swimming pool!

Edit: in the UK, we call them "floats"
I actually never heard of the term either and was going to post "what the hell is a pool noodle" until I saw you said the exact same thing. I would have called it a foam tube or a float too, though I'm in the US.