Most people would find it shocking that a Belgian prison inmate escaped for the fourth time...using a helicopter.
That's exactly what one prisoner did on Sunday at a facility in Ittre, located about 25 miles south of Brussels.
Unfortunately for said inmate, Nordin "Escape King" Ben Allal, the helicopter his accomplices hijacked, crashed in the prison yard after it was bum rushed by other inmates trying to climb on board. Ben Allal/Benallal and cohorts, reportedly, fled the scene and escaped in a car that was made to look like a police vehicle; complete with blue flashing light.
Don't get us wrong we were shocked, and rather impressed, when we learned that Ben Allal has escaped, on four separate occasions, by donning a wig and sunglasses disguise, scaling a prison wall, running away from a prison van and having his friends turn the prison yard into a helipad.
But we were even more surprised when we got to the bottom of an article on Reuters. The incident marked the second time this year that a prisoner has escaped from a Belgian jail using a helicopter. Huh!?
What kind of a system do they have going on over there? It's weird to imagine that busting your friends out of jail, via a stolen helicopter, is entirely possible, depending on where you live.
It's useful information, you know, in case something comes up.
In April, two men posing as tourists hijacked a helicopter and flew into the yard of a prison near Liege to pick up an inmate.
Ben Allal [pictured above] is still at large. According to reports, the 28-year-old escapee is a notorious car-jacker who once shot two policemen trying to arrest him after a previous jailbreak.
Portions of this blog courtesy of Reuters and Telegraph.co.uk.
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