12 Inmates Escaped With Peanut Butter Trick

Peanut butter was the key ingredient in Sunday evening's mass escape from an Alabama jail, Sheriff James Underwood says. 

The sheriff says the 12 men escaped after using peanut butter to cover up a door number, AL.com reports. They then convinced a new guard in the control room to open the door, which led outside. "It may sound crazy, but these kinds of people are crazy like a fox," Underwood says.

Because the door number was obscured by peanut butter, "he thought he was opening the cell door for this man to go in his cell, but in fact he opened up the outside door." The inmates, including two men accused of attempted murder, scaled a 12-foot fence topped with razor wire after making their way outside and escaped without serious injury.

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