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Prisoner on run after pole-vaulting perimeter wall

A prisoner in Chile is on the run after pole-vaulting the jail's four-metre-high perimeter wall with a washing-line pole.

Investigators found a picture of Ukrainian pole-vault champion Sergei Bubka on his cell wall in Coronel jail.

The fugitive, Luis Fernando Mena, is the chief suspect in a supermarket hold-up during which the shop's owner was shot dead. He was being held on murder and robbery charges.

The 19-year-old made the vault just before dinner when there were no other prisoners in the exercise yard. Guards say they couldn't believe their eyes.

La Cuarta newspaper says Mena had disappeared before they reacted.

The regional prison authorities have begun an internal inquiry into how Mena came to have access to the pole.


Story filed: 16:17 Thursday 4th April 2002

amazing! i want to try now!!! haha, how did he manage to do that!!! wouldn't the pole bend be messed up?

lol, what a way to escape....that'd be sweet to watch

That is an awesome story!

I can't believe that. That story just doesn't sound at all possible.

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Here's the link to the original article

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_56 ... s.quirkies

thats awesome haha

that prisoner is one hella of a smart person. i don't think anyone in the world would have thought of vaulting over 4.00m walls. 4 meters is really high ... he must have fell down hard on the floor over the wall.

yea, not only did he vault it, he apparently did pretty damn well to make it over. what's my PR? 12'6 (3.81 meters)? that's high enough as it is! lol

i think they should make that into a movie

sweet!!! i think he deserves to stay out of jail just because his means by which he escaped were so uber neat!!!