VIDEO: Real-Life Criminals Escape from Prison in Ways No One Knew Were Possible!

We’ve all seen at least one movie in which someone decides to break out of jail and run away from the law. Whether they were innocent or not is not the most important part, but the way in which they choose to escape is.

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It might not be the best thing for humanity, but it’s also really, really cool and interesting. According to cracked.com, everyone loves prison escape stories.

On one hand, yes, it usually does mean a dangerous criminal is back out on the street.

But on the other, there just is no such thing as a boring prison escape. And when the person doing the escaping is an unimaginable genius, bad-ass, or both? You get stories that’d be considered too far-fetched for most movies.

Choi Gap-bok Squeezed Through a Food Slot – Picture every movie cell door you’ve ever seen. You know how they’ve always got that food slot at the bottom, the tiny rectangle guards slide the food trays through? If you need help, it’s about 6 inches tall and about 17 inches wide.

Choi Gap-bok, at the ripe old age of 50 was arrested by South Korean police on suspicion of burglary. Gap-bok had been in and out of jail throughout his life, and somewhere along the way he picked up doing yoga. He decided it was time to use the 23 years of stretchy practice he had under his belt to slip right out of his prison cell.

He asked his guards for his special “skin ointment,” and they gave it to him, then went off to sleep. After all, when an old man asks for lotion and privacy you don’t hang around outside the door. What’s the old guy gonna do, lube himself up and squeeze through his food slot?

Jack Sheppard Becomes a Prison Escape Celebrity – If you were alive in 18th century London you’d know who Jack Sheppard was. A small-time thief, he became notorious for his awesome escapes.

Crowds would actually go to his trials just hoping he’d dazzle them. For instance, have you ever seen a movie or TV show where somebody busts out by tying a bunch of bed sheets together into a rope? Well, Jack Sheppard most likely invented that.

Granted, he didn’t have a window to drop out of, so he first smashed through his cell’s ceiling and then dropped his rope of sheets over from the prison roof.

Breaking ceilings is noisy work, so there was a crowd gathered when he hit the bottom. He quickly pulled a Bugs Bunny, telling everyone “He’s over there!” and then ran off with the cops in hot pursuit.

When he got caught again, he and his wife, Lyon, were thrown in a cell together. They broke a bar off the window and then pulled the “bedsheets-rope” trick again and ran off.

So when he was arrested again shortly thereafter, he was locked in a strong-room, stuck in leg irons and chained to the floor. The guards, not enjoying his wacky escapes, put even more chains on him.