NJ Inmates Make Shawshank-style Escape

tobefree alerts us to real-life news, straight out of the movie "The Shawshank Redemption," from a prison in Elizabeth, NJ:

"Two jail inmates used photos of bikini-clad women to hide holes they used to escape and left behind a thank-you note, signed with a smiley face, for a guard they claimed helped them ...

... Jose Espinosa, 20, and Otis Blunt, 32, squeezed through the openings sometime before dawn Saturday in a high-security unit of the Union County jail, jumped onto a rooftop below, and made it over a 25-foot-high fence topped with razor wire."

Unlike in the "The Shawshank Redemption," where Tim Robbins character spends 19 years building a tunnel to escape the prison, it took the New Jersey pair only a few weeks to make their escape.  As of the latest report, authorities are still searching for the fugitives.