22 Aug 39 ways to escape from jail
- Ask to use the bathroom, then leave.
- Surgically replace your hands with shovels.
- Take all the spoons from the dining area, melting them into one big spoon, then trading the world’s largest spoon for a “get out of jail free” card.
- Ask nicely.
- Time travel back into the past and ensuring the new warden of the prison is your biological son, and then guilt tripping him to let you go.
- Tell the guards “I’ll owe you one,” and then winking suggestively.
- Get your prison acapella group to learn Thin Lizzy’s “Jailbreak,” and singing it until they agree to let you go.
- Your friend gets arrested. Your “friend” is actually 100 groundhogs in a trenchcoat.
- Tell the guards you have to go feed your sourdough starter, then not coming back.
- Bake a cake with another cake inside it, using that cake to wish the warden a happy birthday, gaining his favor until he is forced to let you leave.
- Put “escaping from jail” on your vision board.
- Cover yourself in breadcrumbs and birdseed, gluing all the birds to your body, flying away.
- Yell “I have a connecting flight” until everybody gets out of the way.
- Talk about international politics until they ask you to leave.
- Run through the wall, like you’re the Kool-Aid man.
- Do the opposite of what a hunger strike is, wait for the prison to settle into the foundation, get assigned to repair the foundation, then leave.
- Make up new, prison-centric words to Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” until the prison catches on fire and they are forced to evacuate.
- Organize an outdoor nighttime screening of James Cameron’s Titanic, then cutting the fence during the end of the movie while the ship in sinking.
- Become a major shareholder in the privately owned prison in which you’re being held, lobby to move all the inmates into a decommissioned plane scrapyard to cut costs, build a working plane out of all the leftover parts.
- Insist on hearing a bedtime story every night.
- Say you forgot to return a library book, and if you don’t go return it you’ll be forced to bill the U.S. Department of Corrections for ensuing fines.
- Ask for/refer to everyone by their mother’s maiden names, then steal their identities.
- Dress up as a Dickensian orphan, always ask for seconds on soup, wait until they send you to the store for more soup.
- Insist the prison has no good magazines, then offer to grab some down the street.
- Spend all your time in the prison library, studying the ancient texts.
- Cover yourself in a blanket and walking through the prison yard until everyone is convinced the prison is haunted.
- Beat the prison warden in a game of chess (this is legally binding).
- Insist on bringing your emotional support Grizzly Bear.
- Put on a fake mustache
- Refuse to believe in mass incarceration.
- Eat only corn, waiting to be become corn, waiting until the guards say “where did this corn come from,” and gently placing you outside the gate.
- Insist the bathroom situation isn’t conducive to your IBS.
- Get all the prisoners to play the prison staff in a game of basketball, and if you win you get to trade places.
- Say “but it’s Christmas!” every time you’re asked to do something.
- Insist there’s no good cappuccino in the prison, waiting for the prison to buy a brand new espresso machine, then sneaking out in the box it came in.
- Ask the guards to be on your podcast.
- Check out the book titled “How to Break Out of Prison” from the prison library.
- Insist on eating only magnets until you can bend the metal bars with your stomach.
- Pretend to be a dolphin. Dolphin’s can’t go to jail.