最不可思議的十次越獄事件(上)
Every year, thousands of inmates escape from prisons around the world. Of these, most just walk away from minimum-security corrections facilities, but other inmates implement complex, ingenious, and often violent schemes in order to make their getaway. Whether the work of notorious outlaws, WWII G.I.s, or 18th century writers, the following are the top 10 most incredible prison escapes.
全世界每年都有數不清的囚犯在越獄。在這些人之中，大多數人不過是逃出了最低安全級別的小監獄，然而有一些罪犯，卻能夠通過令人叫絕的周密計劃，巧妙地金蟬脫殼。越獄的主角，有臭名昭著的亡命之徒，有二戰中的美國大兵，甚至還有十八世紀的作家，下面就讓我們一起見識一下世界上十大最不可思議的越獄吧！rd's Tower Of London Escape
10.傑勒德倫敦塔越獄事件
John Gerard was a sixteenth century Jesuit priest who is remembered as one of the only people to ever escape from the notorious Tower of London. Gerard was put in the Tower for carrying out his religious missions during a time when the Catholic Church was under persecution in Elizabethan England. He endured frequent interrogations, and despite never breaking even under torture, he was eventually sentenced to death. Gerard immediately began planning an escape, and was able to communicate with allies on the outside via smuggled notes written in an invisible ink made from orange juice. After one failed attempt, Gerard was able to make his escape when some accomplices rowed a boat into the Tower's moat and managed to get a rope up to him. Gerard almost fell to his death because his hands were so injured from torture, but he managed to climb down to the boat and was smuggled out of England to live out the rest of his life in Rome.
約翰·傑勒德是十六世紀的一名天主教神父。他是史上記載的唯一一名從臭名昭著的倫敦塔越獄成功的人。在伊麗莎白統治時代的英國，天主教庭受到嚴重的迫害，而傑勒德在此時卻仍堅持傳教，由此觸怒了新教力量而被投入監獄。入獄後，傑勒德頻繁接受審訊，接受了多次酷刑，但他從未低頭。儘管如此，他最終還是被判處了死刑。審判公佈後，傑勒德立即開始制定周密的越獄計劃。他想方設法用橙汁製成的無色墨水與外部的同夥祕密通信。在經過了一次失敗的越獄之後，傑勒德終於成功越獄。這一次，他的同夥駕着小船偷偷來到監獄之下的護城河，並設法給他弄來了一條繩子讓他爬下來。由於傑勒德的雙手經過一次次酷刑後已經嚴重受傷，以致繩子都抓不緊，害得他在向下爬的過程中差點摔下去喪命。但最終，他還是沿着繩子爬到了船上，偷渡離開了英國，最終在羅馬安然度過餘生。
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9.狄林傑萊克郡監獄越獄事件
Legendary 30s outlaw John Dillinger was involved in a number of often violent prison escapes. In 1933, he and his gang engineered a daring escape from a prison in Lima, Ohio after they used smuggled rifles to gun down two guards. But Dillinger's most famous escape of all came in 1934, after he was arrested on the heels of a number of famous bank heists. Dillinger was put in the “escape-proof” Lake County Jail, a prison that was guarded by an army of policeman and National Guard troops. In what has become something of a legend, Dillinger is said to have fashioned a phony gun out of a bar of soap and used it to force his way out of the jail. In his typical brash style, he then stole the Sheriff's brand new Ford and made his escape to Illinois. Ironically, it was this move–driving a stolen vehicle across state lines– that got the FBI on his trail and eventually led to his demise.
約翰·狄林傑無疑是三十年代亡命之徒中的一個傳奇。他曾經參與過多次暴力越獄。1933年在俄亥俄州利馬市，狄林傑就曾用走私的來複槍射殺了兩名衛兵，策劃了一場膽大包天的越獄。但是狄林傑最著名的越獄是在1934年，在他因搶劫了幾家著名的銀行而入獄之後。他當時被關押在著名的萊克郡監獄，這個監獄因“防越獄”而聞名，四周層層環繞着戒備森嚴的警察部隊和國名警衛部隊。狄林傑的這次越獄經歷充滿了傳奇色彩，據說他在獄中將一把假槍僞造成一條肥皂的樣式，他也正是利用這把槍爲自己的暴力越獄開道。出於一貫狂妄自大的作風，他在越獄之後偷走了警長的一輛全新福特汽車，開着這輛車逃亡到了伊利諾伊州。極具諷刺意味的是，正因爲他開着這輛偷來的車越過了州際線，聯邦調查局才得以輕而易舉調查到他的行蹤，他也因此在日後被判處死刑，斷送了自己的生路。Libby Prison Escape
8.利北監獄越獄事件
Richmond, Virginia's Libby Prison was one of the most infamous jails of the Civil War, but it's also the site of one of the conflict's most daring escapes. In 1864, a group of 15 Union soldiers under the direction of Col. Thomas E. Rose and Major A.G Hamilton managed to tunnel through the prison's basement to a nearby vacant lot. This was no easy task, as Libby's basement was a dark and vermin-infested cellar known to the men as “Rat Hell,” but after seventeen days of digging, they reached a nearby tobacco shed. From here, 109 soldiers managed to escape into the city of Richmond and make a run for the nearby Union lines. 48 of the men were recaptured, and 2 drowned in a nearby river, but 59 managed to make it to the safety of the Federal army. Their escape remains the most successful prison break of the Civil War. Photo by civilwarbattlefields
坐落於弗吉尼亞州的里士滿的利北監獄無疑是美國內戰期間最爲臭名昭著的監獄之一了。但是同時這裏也是史上最大膽越獄的發生地點。在1864年，十五個聯盟士兵在托馬斯·E羅斯上校和少校A·G·漢密爾頓的指揮下，設法將監獄下面的地下室挖通到附近的一片空地。別看聽上去簡單，事實上可沒那麼容易，因爲利北監獄之下的地下室不僅陰暗潮溼，而且害蟲氾濫。這裏一度被人們稱爲“老鼠地獄”，由此地下室的惡劣環境可見一斑。但經過十七天堅持不懈的挖掘之後，他們最終挖通到了附近的一個菸草棚中。共有一百零九名士兵通過地道到達那裏，隨後他們試圖逃到里士滿城去投奔附近的聯邦戰線。在這次逃亡中，四十八人被重新抓獲，兩人淹死在附近湍急的河水中，但五十九人最終成功到達了聯邦軍隊。這次越獄至今爲止仍是內戰期間最爲成功的越獄。nova's Escape from the Leads
7.卡薩諾瓦鉛皮監獄越獄事件
Venetian writer and adventurer Giacomo Casanova is best remembered for being a ladies' man, but he is also responsible for one of the all time great prison breaks. In 1753, after gaining a reputation for debauchery and adultery, Casanova was arrested and confined to the Leads prison, so named because it was outfitted with a lead roof that was designed to encourage stifling heat and make escape impossible. After smuggling a metal spike into his cell, Casanova and a renegade priest confined nearby managed to tunnel through the ceiling of their cells. Once through, they pried open the lead plates on the roof and broke into another room through a dormer window. Using a combination of ladders and ropes, the duo managed to make it to the ground floor, and after breaking a lock and sneaking through the prison corridors, they escaped by gondola into the city's network of rivers. Casanova would later write about the escape in a popular memoir, and though many have speculated that the story may be embellished, evidence from scene of the jailbreak seems to back up his account.
威尼斯作家兼冒險家賈科莫·卡薩諾瓦向來以“受女人歡迎的男人”而著名，但是他同時還實施過一次史上最著名的越獄。在1753年獲得道德敗壞以及通姦的惡名後，卡薩諾瓦被捕入獄並被關押在鉛皮監獄。鉛皮監獄之所以如此命名，是因爲這座監獄裝備了一個鉛皮屋頂，這使整個監獄悶熱無比，也使得越獄看起來幾乎是不可能完成的。卡薩諾瓦在牢房之中偷偷搞到了一個鋼釘，隨後他和附近牢房裏的一個變節牧師相勾結，聯手挖通了牢房的天花板。在挖通之後，他們通過天花板上的缺口撬開了天花板上的鉛片，通過窗戶進入了另一個牢房中。隨後，他們利用梯子和繩子，設法到達地面，並打破了鎖，偷偷穿過監獄的走廊，乘坐小船逃到了城市的河網。在之後的一本暢銷回憶錄中，卡薩諾瓦詳細描寫了這次越獄經歷，儘管書中的描寫可能經過了藝術的加工和誇張，但是越獄現場的證據顯示他的描寫基本屬實。al Payet's Helicopter Escapes
6.帕斯卡爾·帕耶特直升機越獄事件
Many European prisons have exercise yards on their roofs, a feature that French criminal Pascal Payet has repeatedly used to his advantage. Payet was originally jailed for a murder that occurred during a botched robbery on a security van, and was sentenced to thirty years in France's Luynes Prison. In 2001, he managed to make a daring escape when an accomplice simply picked him up from the prison's roof with a hijacked chopper. Payet even returned to the prison two years later with another helicopter and proceeded to help three other prisoners make their escape, but all four men were re-captured, and Payet was given another seven-year sentence for his role in the jailbreak. Amazingly, in 2007 Payet again escaped via helicopter, this time from Grasse prison in southeast France. He was lifted off the roof by four masked accomplices who had hijacked a chopper from a nearby airport by threatening to kill the pilot. After landing near the Mediterranean Sea, the pilot was released, and Payet and his accomplices have since disappeared.
很多歐洲的監獄都會讓囚犯在監獄屋頂做操。法國罪犯帕斯卡爾·帕耶特就正是多次利用了這一點纔多次得以逃脫。帕耶特最初入獄是因爲在一次蹩腳的搶劫中誤殺了一名保安，他因此被判處了三十年的有期徒刑，關押在法國呂內堡監獄。在2001年，他策劃了一場大膽的越獄。他的一個同夥劫持了一架直升機，直接在監獄屋頂把他給接走了。帕耶特逃走之後，竟然駕着另一架直升機又返回了監獄，試圖救走其他三名犯人。但悲催的是這次四個人都被抓回來了，帕耶特因爲越獄以及幫助別人越獄又加了七年的刑罰。但故事並沒有就此結束，令人驚訝的是，在2007年，帕耶特居然又通過直升機逃走了！這一次是在法國東南部的格拉斯監獄。他的四個蒙面的同夥在附近的機場劫持了一架直升機，以飛行員的生命相要挾讓他開到監獄屋頂，再一次從屋頂接走了帕耶特。飛機在地中海附近着陸後，他們放走了飛行員，在此之後，帕耶特和他的同夥再也沒有出現過。翻譯：郭瑞 來源：前十網
