TheAge.com.au
It started as a daring escape bid and ended with three prisoners forced to hang around as authorities brought them back to earth and into detention.
And for all the hi-tech security available to prisons, it was the decidedly old-school razor-wire-on-wall trick that cut short a breakout at Bochum, Germany after all three would-be escapees became helplessly tangled.
One managed to get over the top but was left dangling precariously halfway up an external wall, his flesh and clothes tearing as he struggled like a spider in a web. ...
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