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Prisoners Escape after Guards Place Dummy in Guardtower Instead of an Actual Guard
By John Farrier in Crime & Law, Odd News on Jul 21, 2010 at 1:17 pm

http://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/21/prisoners-escape-after-guards-place-dummy-in-guardtowe-instead-of-an-actual-guard/

Police in Argentina are on the lookout for two escaped prisoners. Due to a manpower shortage, only two of the fifteen guard towers at a prison were manned. One had a crudely-made dummy inside which did not fool the prisoners:

A prison source said: “We’ve made a dummy out of a football and a prison officer’s cap, so that the prisoner see its shadow and think they’re being watched.”

“We named him Wilson, like in the film Cast Away, and put him in one of the towers,” the man told the Diario Rio Negro newspaper, referring to the Tom Hanks film in which his character invents a volleyball character for company.