You may recall that in April I posted about someone escaping a prison via helicopter to a getaway car. Apparently at the same prison, a similar event occurred again, though this one turned out more ridiculous:

A Belgian inmate made a dramatic escape from jail for the fourth time Sunday evening after his armed accomplices landed in the prison grounds in a hijacked helicopter, prosecutors said Monday.

Nordin Benallal, self-styled "escape king" with several convictions for armed robbery and carjacking, has previously run from a prison van, walked out of jail wearing a wig and sunglasses and scaled a prison wall with a rope ladder.

Sunday, Benallal's accomplices hijacked a helicopter near the prison in Ittre, some 30 km (19 miles) south of Brussels. On landing, the helicopter was crowded by other prisoners, making takeoff impossible and causing it to crash. The pilot and a prisoner were slightly injured.

Benallal and his cohorts then briefly seized two prison warders as hostages and fled in a car parked nearby.

He's escaped by wearing a wig and sunglasses?!? First off, where the hell did he get a wig, and how did the handcuffs not give him away? I mean, maybe he didn't have handcuffs on, but I'd think you'd still need some kind of authorization to be leaving an area that's locked down. Call me crazy.

And how do they not have guard towers or something that would let them fire warning shots at helicopters? Especially after they'd had a helicopter breakout already? That's some poor planning. Between that and the guy being able to escape by wearing a disguise, I'm convinced this prison is guarded by a bunch of mannequins.

Also, this story makes me want to watch 24 or Con Air (but not Prison Break because I hate that show...never has there been so much suspense leading to nothing in the history of television).

Here's a Wikipedia entry on helicopter escapes.

A cage like this could prevent helicopters