KNOT FAILS DURING PRISON SHEET ESCAPE

Two inmates at a Louisville, Kentucky, prison tried to escape using knotted bed sheets. Officials say the men escaped to the roof of a minimum-security building Monday night and used a rope made of bed sheets to climb down about four floors when a knot on the sheets came loose, dropping 29-year-old Matthew Johnson about 20 feet. He then fled. Police learned of the escape around 9 p.m., when a hospital worker saw Johnson climbing down. The second inmate, 37-year-old Christopher Cornelius, didn’t risk the climb and was found on the roof. Johnson was found hiding in a car during a traffic stop early Tuesday morning. He had injured his ankle and back. Both men were in jail on drug charges.
* That’s the problem with those silky prison sheets.
* The prison has since removed the Boy Scout Handbook from the prison library.
* It’s a variation on the old saying about chains and the weakest link.
* Let me give it a try: A bed sheet rope is only as strong as it’s weakest knot.
* Maybe this could lead to a whole new business: Reworking sayings so they can be used by criminals.
* Like “A stitch in time saves nine” would be “Good behavior saves you added time.”