Para fora, cá dentro

A 28-year-old robbery convict with a history of escape attempts tried to tunnel his way to freedom at the prison in Coimbra, Portugal, in June but was intercepted by officials after excavating about 6 feet.

He still had 70 feet of tunnel to dig just to clear the building he was housed in, but a larger problem was that the man was apparently direction-challenged: his tunnel was pointed not toward the prison perimeter next to the building but toward a patio well inside the walls.

[Agence France-Presse, 6-18-04]