Escape

In Today's Issue

Escape by Anne Rhodes
Great Escapes
Random Joke of the Day
That's Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing
Finish with a Song

ESCAPE THE ENEMY                     © Anne Rhodes

Escape – that’s all folk seem to need, to do.

Compared to some, our problems are so small.

Unhappiness or heartache makes us cry.

The funny bits of life can pass us by.

A stubbed toe, a broken arm or finger,

The misery brought on by loneliness.

All these, though large in our own lives as such

Are merely our own emotional crutch.

Are nought, compared to those who flee from fear,

From death or bombs or now from burning homes

A lifetime spent without acknowledgement

Now the need for swift escape is rampant.

Their houses and their property are gone

Frail or babes in arms are carried some way

Escape from fear their only driving force

From cruel villains who have no remorse.

Generations pass still unaccepted

They did not ask to be ignored or shunned

They did not ask for such strong dismissal

Indeed, is such cruel treatment lawful?

Thousands and thousands collapse where they’re told

A banking, a muddy field which gets worse

The more arrive to churn its wat’ry sludge.

Too many to stay so onwards they trudge.

No-one would flee, yet bringing so little -

Walking for frightening mile upon mile

Reaching out for the world to succour them

In their time of need, and their fear to stem.

Our problems shrink to nought when thus compared

Our lives not in the same danger as theirs.

Their poor lives seem worse, the deeper one delves -

We only try to escape from ourselves.

Joseph Bolitho Johns, an Australia bushranger, escaped from prison so many times a special cell was built to hold him. The cell was so strong the Governor promised to forgive his crimes if he could escape again, which he did in 1867.

In 1942, Kazimierz Piechowski, an Auschwitz prisoner, escaped the camp along with three others by dressing up as Nazi officers and stealing a German captain’s car. When they arrived at the gate he simply shouted orders to the guards who let them pass with no questions asked.

Yoshie Shiratori, the “Showa Era escape artist,” is known for having escaped from prison four times by picking locks with wire, sawing floorboards with metal sheet, and digging his way out with a bowl.

In 1934, the Depression-era American gangster, John Dillinger, escaped using a fake pistol he whittled from a potato in his cell to intimidate 33 people before getting real sub-machine guns.

Mark DeFriest made 13 escape attempts, seven of them successful, after he was arrested for “stealing” tools left to him by his father. Believed to be an autistic savant, he could memorize jailors’ keys and reproduce them from anything available to him.

In 1995, Daniel Luther Heiss escaped prison after discovering that the key pictured on his prisoners’ information handbook was the master key for the entire prison, which he replicated.

When his bank loan con started going wrong, Steven Jay Russell feigned a heart attack and was transported to a hospital. There he impersonated an FBI agent and called the hospital on his cell phone to tell them he could be released.

In 2012, Choi Gap-bok used his yoga skills to escape from prison while the prison guards were sleeping by squeezing through the food slot at the bottom of his cell door. The slot measured 5.9 inches tall and 17.7 inches wide.

Random Joke of the Day

Experts say the new iPhone X is so innovative, It revolutionises how we ignore people standing next to us.

That's Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing

In 1912, a Paris orphanage held a raffle to raise money—the prizes were live babies.

Finish with a Song

Given the theme this is The Escape Song by Rupert Homes released in 1979.