Captives Like a Captivated Audience
Some prisoners in a Thailand jail were delighted with Croatia’s upset of Germany in the quarterfinals Saturday.
Prison guards were so fascinated by the game, they ignored the closed-circuit TV screens monitoring the cells of eight prisoners. And while they were watching the game, the cons were sawing off the bars to their cells and making a massive jailbreak.
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