You Couldn't Make This Stuff Up: Spanish Police Foil Remote-Controlled Zeppelin Jailbreak

Like a scene out a James Bond/The Hangover mashup, Reuters reported over the weekend that three people have been arrested after police discovered their plan to free a drug trafficker from an island prison using a 13-foot airship carrying night goggles, climbing gear and camouflage paint.

The prisoner, named as Giulio B., 52, was in jail after being caught piloting a seaplane taking 200 kg (440 pounds) of cocaine from Mauritania to the Canaries. It's believed that the plot was to free an inmate of the Salto del Negro prison on the Canary Island of Las Palmas who was to climb the prison wall and speed off in a waiting car.

The arrested men had setup an elaborate surveillance operation of the prison that involved a camouflaged tent, powerful binoculars, telephoto lenses, and motion detection sensors. But authorities foiled the plan when they intercepted the inflatable four-meter long zeppelin as it arrived from the Italian town of Bergamo.

Jason McManus.

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