March 3, 2008
News that inmates at Blantyre House prison in Kent are working in a key-cutting shop as part of skills training had Guru thinking about how such an initiative would have ruined so many of the 'Great Escape' films.
Tim Robins, AKA Andy Dufrain from Shawshank Redemption fame, would not have had to crawl through 500 yards of foul inmate excrement, had he just made a key.
...Steve McQueen would not have tried to hurdle the barbed wire maze on his 650cc Triumph motorcycle and would have instead walked off into the sunset in the Great Escape,
...And Clint Eastwood AKA Frank Morris, the only man believed to have escaped from the rock, would not have been famous at all had he simply opened his cell door and rattled the keys on his pocket chain, whistling Lynyrd Skynyrd on his way out in Escape From Alcatraz
A prison spokeswoman at Blantyre House prison said convicts only did engraving and shoe repairs, and all involved were "rigorously risk-assessed".
How very trusting.
