Jail’s not so bad. You can make sangria in the terlet. ‘Course it’s shank or be shanked. But sometimes the loo wine runs dry and you have to look elsewhere to catch a quick buzz. What do you do? If you’re one of a handful of prisoners in Darwin‘s minimum security prison at Berrimah, you just hop the dang fence, get turnt up and hop the fence back in when you’re done.
It sounds ridiculous, but it really happened. A group of four prisoners are suspected of waiting until after a 7pm headcount at the work release centre where they were held, before hopping the fence to meet up with some chums, who in turn would ply them with booze and joints. The prisoners would then sneakily hop back over the fence when they were good and cooked in the hope that no one would notice their temporary absence.
And it was a plan that worked for the most part, until prison guards had to break up a fight between five drunken prisoners who were brawling over a mobile phone.
The cops, for their part, are investigating the case. Though apparently no charges have yet been laid, and it will be up to the police to determine what actually constitutes an escape given that… y’know… an escape usually involves a prisoner not trying to sneak back into prison before anyone’s noticed they’ve gone.
Just because they’re guilty of a crime, does that mean the grand Australian tradition of Friday Night Drinks should be taken away from them too, I ask you! (Yes, it’s prison, that’s what prison is for.)
The prisoners have since been transferred to the maximum security section of the jail.
A+ for effort though, lads.
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via ABC News.
