Prisoner flees after asking a guard the way out...

When you think high security..what's the first thing that comes to mind?

Hopefully one of your answers was a prison. So you would think that a prison has a very strict policy involving people entering and leaving the building as well as keeping inmates in check. Guess again.. Read this story:

"FORGET the knotted bed sheets or tunnel. A New York prisoner has come up with a much easier way to break out of jail: ask the guards for the exit.

The inmate, who was wearing a suit for a court appearance on charges of multiple store robberies, simply wandered out of an open cell door and into a courtroom on Wednesday, the New York Post daily reported.

There, he calmly asked a court officer "which way is out?" and the guard - mistaking the escapee for a lawyer - directed him to the lobby.

The daring jailbird went straight to his 81-year-old mother's Manhattan home to change clothes, then left, she told the Post.

"I thought he was discharged. He was all dressed up," she said."

Taken from www.theaustrialian.news.com