Get the Led out! It's a Zeppelin escape!

Cops foil a plot to use a zeppelin to help jailbreak
By Harold Heckle, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MADRID - Spanish police foiled a plot to use a zeppelin to help a prisoner break out of jail, the Interior Ministry said Friday.

Investigators found a package sent from Italy containing sophisticated escape equipment that was to have been smuggled into the hilltop Salto del Negro prison on the Canary Island of Las Palmas using a 4-meter (13-foot) electrically controlled dirigible.

The breakout had been planned for Tuesday, a day before the detainee, whose name was given as "Giulio B.," was due to appear in court on charges of drug trafficking.

Three helpers had set up a camouflaged observation tent on a promontory 600 metres (656 yards) away from the prison, and spent months monitoring jail workers' movements with high power wide-angle binoculars. They also were protected with electronic movement sensors to warn of people approaching.

The helpers were also in possession of maps of the prison and handwritten letters sent by Giulio B.

"The strategy consisted of using a 4-meter radio-controlled zeppelin to help introduce night vision equipment, climbing kit and camouflage paint to Giulio B.'s cell," the ministry said in a statement.

What ever happened to the old cake with a nail file routine? Prison escapes are getting pretty elaborate these days because its not as easy as they make it look on that ridiculous FOX show. At any rate you've got to be a pretty important dude to organize a zeppelin escape from jail. It sounds like Giulio B has some pretty serious stuff going on outside the prison doors. Maybe they should just let him go. I bet its harder to get out of that jail than Lowell Maximum Security.