Amy Windom of Atlanta, Georgia was the victim of a break-in at her home. The gunman struck her with a handgun and tied her hands to the bed. She was left tied up for hours, while the intruder robbed the house and left. B...

There's a good reason that all those Hollywood mov...  ...isoners escaping in laundry trucks. An inmate who escaped an El Paso jail in a garbage truck found out the...  ...k, N.M. landfill was that of a federal inmate who escaped the El Paso jail earlier in the day.Link

(Live Leak link) This cockatoo's name is Billy, but they should have named him Houdini! -via reddit...

Two days after Maddie Tibble and her family moved...  ...house, their family pet, a tortoise named Lottie, escaped . Two years later, they found the runaway tortoise...

How would Cracked commemorate Memorial Day? By pos...  ...ay? By posting a list of The 5 Most Badass Prison Escapes in the History of War. These escapes took imagination, intelligence, and nerves of ste...  ...captured him during World War II and took him to " escape proof" Kon...

An unnamed 35-year-old female inmate broke out of...  ...al building for inmates preparing for release. To escape , she dug a tunnel with a spoon! The woman's tunn...

A female hippopotamus named Nikica swam out of her enclosure at a private zoo in Plavnica, Montenegro when flood waters rose over the fence. The two-ton hippo has stayed close to the zoo, but cannot be rounded up until t...

Poster by Lebedev Studios From the people at Art Lebedev Studios, this poster would make a great wall decoration while serving as a reference guide in case of the unthinkable.  And oh yeah, it glows in the dark. L...

Necessity may be the mother of inventions, but pri...  ...e a look at these collection of improvised tools, escape equipments and weapons made by inmates undoubtedl...  ...any, sometime around 1994; intended for use in an escape or as a general weapon. At that time a lot of cru...

The Maryland Zoo recently unveiled a new prairie d...  ...t they were used to having." After foiling the escape attempt, zoo workers adjusted wire fencing and in...