New York City Inmate Tries To Escape Prison By Tying 64 Bedsheets Together
NEW YORK (AP) — Investigators sweeping a jail after breaking up a drug smuggling ring uncovered an inmate’s apparent escape plot using 64 neatly tied together bedsheets, enough for him to shimmy down 11 stories from his cellblock to the street, city officials said Thursday. Ernest Murphy, awaiting trial on an attempted murder charge, had the sheets stashed under a sink in his cell at the Manhattan Detention Center, said Mark Peters, commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation. The coil stretched the length of a gymnasium nearly four times. “Thankfully, it was discovered before he had an opportunity to test his skills at making a getaway,” Peters said. “And so the city was spared the potential spectacle of joining the state for the past two weeks in a manhunt for escaped inmates.” Peters was referring to the massive search for convicted murderers David Sweat and Richard Matt, who authorities believe used power tools smuggled in by a worker at the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora to break through a wall, cut a hole through a pipe and vanish nearly two weeks ago. Murphy, already jailed on allegations he participated in a gang assault where a man was slashed and shot, was arrested May 11 on a new charge of promoting prison contraband. He didn’t confess to an escape attempt, but authorities said there’s no other logical reason for the sheets. A message left with his lawyer wasn’t immediately returned.
Trying to escape prison, so hot right now. Trying to escape prison. You gotta imagine when those two dude’s went Shawshank that every single inmate in America was like “Why the fuck can’t I do that???” Thats gotta be such a shitty feeling. Those guys were just smarter than you. More clever than you. Had bigger balls than you. They fucked their prison guard and manipulated her to help them escape. Meanwhile what were you doing? Probably lifting weights and reading books and just sitting there really, really wishing you werent in jail. Nice job, buffoons.
So then you got a guy like Ernie Murphy. His escape plan was probably like
Step 1: Tie 64 bedsheets together
Step 2 through 50: ?????
Seemed like a solid first step. Worked for all the Acme cartoon characters. Tie bedsheets together, climb out the window, dig underneath the fence and run away. Ernest Murphy was basically like Michael Scofield. The most important part of tying together 64 bedsheets together is not letting any of the guards find your 64 bedsheets tied together. If it wasnt for that one minor hiccup, I think he could have gotten away Scot Free.
