A prisoner wrapped himself in a large parcel and posted himself to freedom from a jail in Austria.
Bosnian Muradif Hasanbegovic, 36, was serving a seven-year sentence for robbery in the Karlau prison, near Graz. He escaped from the workshop where he helped package and post parts for lampposts. The man packed himself up in a parcel, and other convicts loaded him onto a lorry. Once clear of the prison he broke out of the parcel, jumped off the back of the lorry and fled.
The lorry driver told police: "I noticed the tarpaulin had a hole in it just as the prison called me and asked 'Have you noticed anything funny? We are kind of missing a prisoner'."
kind of??
Prison warden Franz Hochstrasser said: "This sort of thing was not supposed to happen.
Well, that's a relief.
Guards need to count prisoners at the end of working hours. We are investigating the case."
"Did you count the prisoners Hanz?"
"Ja, until I ran out of fingers, den I figured 'that's plenty'"
Hasanbegovic is still on the run.