Wow, just wow!

So here are some snippets from a news story out of New Jersey. They detail the escape of two prisoners from a highly secure section of an Elizabeth County Jail holding cell. See if this is familiar to you.
"Two inmates escaped from a county jail, hiding the holes they made in the walls by putting up photos of bikini-clad women, officials said."

"The county prosecutor's office said the two apparently removed cement blocks from two walls, squeezed through the openings, jumped to a rooftop below and then made it over a 25-foot-high fence."

"The men helped cover up the break by placing dummies under their bed blankets, and hiding the wall holes with magazine photos of women in bikinis, authorities said."

If you think you recognize this wily scheme, that is because all of these steps happened in either "Escape from Alcatraz", the 1979 Clint Eastwood film and the Steven king film, "Shawshank Redemption", 1994, starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. Both what I consider to be among the top rated escape movies of all time, also two movies that you would expect a prison guard or two, to have watched. When a movie that is in line with your career comes out, you tend to take notice. Pot dealers love "Half Baked", members of the mafia enjoy "Good Fellas" or "The Godfather (I and II, never 3)". Closet homosexuals can't get enough of "Top Gun". So you would have to expect that one member of the Elizabeth County Jail employee system would have seen a prison break movie, hell, even the TV show, "Prison Break". Did they never turn that show on, not even for a moment? I just don't get how you don't expect this sort of thing, you may as well let people just hang out in an unlocked yard and use the honor system. " Now Billy Bob, there ain't nothin' keepin' you from just runnin' outta here and joinin' back up with the gang but I hope ya'll got more respec fer me than ta go an do that", Says the warden as he inhales enough glue fumes to kill off what's left of his gray matter. I just wanted to inform everyone of this. TV and movies are good for you and can actually save peoples lives and your own from an embarrassing social and political faux-pa and/ or manslaughter.

Suggested films for jail/prison guards:
Cool Hand Luke, Escape from Alcatraz, The Great Escape, Oh Brother Where art thou, Stalag 17, Papillon, Shawshank Redemption, Escape from New York (just because it is good), Midnight Express, the list goes on and on. In all of these films you can see criminals that out smart police and guards using their above average intelligence and charm. Since these are movies and the people are much smarter than many real criminals, it is almost mind numbing to think about how stupid the people that are supposed to be protecting us are getting.