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.

Re:There's an escapee on my lawn

[iamhassi]

oh if only i had mod points!!!!

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

[hedwards]

I'm a bit surprised that the prison allows the guards to keep their phones with them on duty. While not for this specific reason, there's all kinds of ways in which this can go wrong, from jail breaks to contacts with the outside world that aren't being monitored.

That being said, the fact that he put the keys down is the real issue. Security, LEOs and such are never under any circumstance to put their keys down, not even for a moment for this precise reason. People can get access to them without your knowledge.

Re:well, that's a new one

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude, have you ever been into a police department in a major city (mine shall remain nameless)....Last time I was in one, I waited 5 minuets while the metal detector operator replied to a text message. Then, at the records department, i waited 15 minuets while another officer finished a personal call on their cell phone (quite entertaining). Then on my way out, every officer sitting down at a post quickly tucked away the cell phone mid-text.

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.

Why was this even allowed?

[mr_nazgul]

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.

Re:Why was this even allowed?

[RyuuzakiTetsuya]

they're running your office like a prison and the prison like an office.

That's how.

That's why

[jayhawk88]

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

Re:That's why

[socsoc]

With wanting to snipe from the corners, if it was a pool level the cat would be good too. She can hit any lane.

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.

Re:why are they BS you on your lunch brake?

[Anonymous Coward]

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!

Why do they give you BS when you are on your lunch break?
I hope it's a paid lunch or they should not be telling you what you can do on your break!

I'm sorry, that was just too painful to read the way it was.

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."

Re:Wonder

[cgenman]

PopCap is responsible for Bejeweled, which has sold over 50 million copies, and Peggle, which eats souls (and has sold about 50 million as well). They have about 200 employees.

They're probably thinking "Oh good, another batch of press impressions for the campaign recap binder."

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.

Wow, news from a site called "GamePron"

[ProppaT]

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.

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!