Slashdot Mirror
Inmates Escape As Guard Plays Plants Vs. Zombies
dotarray writes "Everybody knows that there's a certain risk one takes when playing addictive, engrossing games can be trouble when you're meant to be doing something else. The prevalence of awesome games on the iPhone hasn't helped that risk. A Plants Vs. Zombies loving police officer has learned this the hard way after an escape."
Don't want escapees on my lawn.
Well, I've seen a jailbroken iPhone, but this is the first I've heard of an iPhonen jailbreak..
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
I bet Edmond Dantès feels like an asshole for planning such an unnecessarily elaborate escape after reading TFA.
I work in an office environment and even I couldn't get away with playing games on my phone, unless on my lunch break and away from my desk. Even on lunch at my desk a manager would comment if you played a game on your phone (or PC).
How on earth was it allowed that a security guard was allowed to do this in a prison of all places? One would think that there would be basic rules about conduct for the officers, considering how many there are for the inmates.
Good.. Bad.. I'm the guy with the gun.
Unarmed snacks leave fortified building as prison guard hones his zombie plan.
You always have sniper towers on the corners. What a noob, leaking 5 inmates like that.
why are they BS you on your lunch brake?
I hope it's a payed lunch or they should not be telling you what you can do on your brake!
They should have put more pea shooters on the guard towers.
"I'm not a quack, I'm a mad scientist! There's a difference." - Dr. Cockroach
Maybe that's just how they roll in the Philippines.
I guess it's a good thing he wasn't playing "Angry Birds," because while Plants vs Zombies is good, Angry Birds is likee the holy grail of Iphone games and certainly would have resulted in the entire jail being emptied.
iPhone jailbreaks YOU!
I wonder what the author of this game thinks.
I it "Wow! Someone is actually playing my game!"
or is is "Oh no! My game is now going to be a question on Jeopardy."
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
"The wall was made higher, additional barbed wire was installed, security measures were tightened," said City Councilor Augustus "Jun" Pe, "but why was the inmate still able to escape?"
They've also tried putting onions in his path. That didn't work either.
If you ask the Department of Public Services (DPS), there was no way a man could be smuggled in the thin layer of trash that day without being noticed.
They said he would have surely collapsed from the stench of food slop collected from the jail.
But a convicted prisoner, who is due to be shipped out to the National Bilibid Prison in Muntinglupa, would surely find the will to endure a ride that smells to the high heavens.
Obviously, some caffeinated magnet-shrooms are needed (to stop them going over and under the defenses) along with some strategically placed winter melons and maybe a cactus somewhere.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
It is a REALLY fun game to play.
Would there be the same kind of fevor if the guard would have been doing something else?
Reading a book.
Taking a nap.
...funny stuff, but all I can think is "My tax dollars at work."
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
Cool new twist on the Zombie killing goodness. Check out www.brainarang.com
Did they catch him on tape playing games? Or did he confess? I can't imagine he would do that. Maybe the 3 that were recaptured were tattletales..
I judt got a nre Kinesis keybiartf so please excusr ant egregiou typos.
If the guard had bothered to block the exit with his giant nuts right from the start, he would've bought himself more time to react.
That's a miserable setup in that picture. His economy is aweful and he's using landmines - worthless.
-- PopCap's Plants Vs. Zombies now available
"MIT betrayed all of its basic principles."
same old story...
...and the older ones are staggeringly computer illiterate. He could have told his boss he was using the computer to monitor security cameras or that he was working on a spreadsheet and his boss likely would not have known the difference.
Really? We're using a site called "GamePron" as a source for a story? Especially with grammar that bad? Ugh. I'll just sit here for the IT police to arrest me after going to a site with "pron" in the title. I'm sure that one red flagged my account.
Wise men say, "Forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza."
so on launch you are not payed to just sit there?
he said he couldn't do those things while sitting at his desk. Implying he COULD do those things elsewhere. So if the company had a cafeteria or whatever he could go there and txt, make calls whatever.
I thought jailbreaking was legalised, no?
There's an app for that!
A man in my guild (WoW) claims to be a security guard at a prison. He claims to play all day in a truck outside the prison grounds with his boss.
Before you know it one little incident gets blown out of proportion and are looking at a global ban on Zombies.
Apparently it has nothing to do with his being inattentive -- at least, only so far as he seems to have LEFT HIS KEYS and walked away, leaving them in a location where the inmates could get them.
Whether he was on lunch, break, slacking off, or something else is not said. Given he FORGOT HIS KEYS somewhere where inmates could get them, somewhere where he WAS alledgedly playing games, it stands to reason that he WAS NOT playing games when the inmates aquired his keys.
Sorry for reading TFA. I guess I just broke all of the comments in this thread.