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."

Comments

There's an escapee on my lawn

[Drakkenmensch]

Don't want escapees on my lawn.

well, that's a new one

[Red Flayer]

Well, I've seen a jailbroken iPhone, but this is the first I've heard of an iPhonen jailbreak..

Re:well, that's a new one

[Anonymous Coward]

Last time I was in one, I waited 5 minuets while the metal detector operator replied to a text message.

With an estimated average duration for a minuet by composers such as Bach and Beethoven to be about 2 minutes, 5 minuets would last about 10 minutes.

Re:well, that's a new one

[The Archon V2.0]

Last time I was in one, I waited 5 minuets while the metal detector operator replied to a text message.

With an estimated average duration for a minuet by composers such as Bach and Beethoven to be about 2 minutes, 5 minuets would last about 10 minutes.

That's nothing. I once had to wait an oratorio and two cantatas on hold with DLink.

The Count of Cagayan de Oro City

[PocariSweat1991]

I bet Edmond Dantès feels like an asshole for planning such an unnecessarily elaborate escape after reading TFA.

That's why

[jayhawk88]

You always have sniper towers on the corners. What a noob, leaking 5 inmates like that.

Re:That's why

[dweinst]

Hoping to grab himself some freed prisoners?

They Should Have

[MrTripps]

They should have put more pea shooters on the guard towers.

Re:They Should Have

[Captain Spam]

Nah, a few tall-nuts in the escape route would've stalled them long enough to get better defenses in place.

In Soviet Russia...

[Anonymous Coward]

iPhone jailbreaks YOU!

Wonder

[SnarfQuest]

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."

They've tried that... it didn't work

[denzacar]

"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.

Re:Great comments...

[Theoboley]

Where's the Cowboy Neal Option?

News?

[Suhas]

I thought jailbreaking was legalised, no?

Need to escape prison?

[Psaakyrn]

There's an app for that!