{"id":167,"date":"2009-10-02T12:19:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T11:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wade.one\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2009-10-02T12:19:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T11:19:54","slug":"prisoner-flees-after-asking-guard-way-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wade.one\/blog\/2009\/10\/02\/prisoner-flees-after-asking-guard-way-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Prisoner flees after asking guard way out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New York prisoner has come up with a much easier way to break out of jail: ask the guards for the exit.<\/p>\n<p>The inmate, who was wearing a suit for a court appearance on charges of multiple store robberies, simply wandered out of an open cell door and into a courtroom on Wednesday, the New York Post daily reported.<\/p>\n<p>There, he calmly asked a court officer &#8220;which way is out?&#8221; and the guard &#8211; mistaking the escapee for a lawyer &#8211; directed him to the lobby.<\/p>\n<p>The daring jailbird went straight to his 81-year-old mother&#8217;s Manhattan home to change clothes, then left, she told the Post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought he was discharged. 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