4. Save Your Hair And Hoard The Soap

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Each man had a fake head in their beds in order to trick prison guards when they made their rounds. Using plaster, soap, and hair trimmings from the barber shop, they sculpted heads and painted them with prison art kits. Soap was also used as a substitute for the rivets they later removed on the roof.

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5. Brush Up On Your Strength And Agility Training

In order to get outside of the prison, the men had to squeeze through holes into a utility hallway, climb up a drainpipe and through an exhaust vent to the roof, slide back down the kitchen vent, and scale two barbed wire fences.

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6. Channel MacGyver

Whenever the guards weren’t watching, the escapees fashioned an inflatable raft out of rubber raincoats and used an accordion-like concertina as a bellows to inflate it.