MetaFilter posts tagged with escape

Push the crates off the platform. Hurry!

yhbc — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:57:04 -0800

Crates are falling out of the sky. Push them off the platform. Keep doing it until one of them crushes you. Which it will. Soon. Double-digit scores seem pretty good, actually, and I swear I got 21 once.

A long time on the lam

veedubya — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:22:45 -0800

A southern California family is standing by the wife and mother who lived under a false name and with a colossal secret: Susan M. LeFevre escaped from a Plymouth prison 32 years ago.

neutral games

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:31:22 -0800

Japanese Myst-like escape games from neutral (Flash)
Vision - Hints
RGB - Hints
Sphere - Hints

Man killed by escaped tiger at San Francisco Zoo

rednikki — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 21:58:49 -0800

One man was killed and two others critically injured when Siberian tiger Tatiana escaped from her pen at the San Francisco Zoo. The men were eating at a cafe on the Ocean Boulevard end of the zoo. The tiger was shot to death by police at the scene. Tatiana, allegedly not known for violence, mauled her keeper one year and three days ago, after which the Lion House was closed for ten months for a $250,000 safety upgrade. It reopened in September, 2007.

Salvation Lies Within

brevator — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:22:44 -0800

The holes in the men’s cells were covered by revealing photographs of women in bikinis, which officials displayed at Monday’s news conference. Grudgingly, Mr. Romankow acknowledged the similarity to the film “The Shawshank Redemption.”

Escaped Elephants.

Salmonberry — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:38:01 -0800

Listen to the Newmarket Police try to deal with "Outstanding Elephants". Elephants from the circus escape. They wander through Newmarket, Ontario, munching on people's landscaping. Some people out for a late night walk happen upon them and (mp3) call into the York regional police to report the errant elephants. Then the police (mp3) deal with getting them back to their home. "Police said no one was hurt, no property was damaged and that the two well-behaved animals spent their free time snacking on plants and trees as they wandered the quiet downtown streets." Sounds like a good way to spend a summer evening to me!

Waste your employer's time

caddis — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:37:00 -0800

Submachine (Future Loop Foundation) You are trapped in ~~your cube~~ a padded cell, and you need to escape. Another fine Submachine game from Mateusz Skutnik. You can probably escape well before lunch and still have time to push some of that paper out of your ~~cell~~ cube. (Flash Friday)

The Fireladders of Soho

Armitage Shanks — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:21:58 -0800

The Fireladders of Soho. (New York, that is.) [via]

The real Great Escape

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:33:43 -0800

One man: one plan, one stove, hundreds of accomplices, 200 tonnes of sand, 4,000 bed boards, 600 feet of rope.

76 men: 50 murdered, 23 recaptured, only three got away.

The real story behind the Great Escape.

Vrba told the world, but for some it didn't help

amberglow — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 20:50:55 -0800

Rudolf Vrba-RIP --he escaped from Auschwitz with another guy, Wetzler, in April 1944 and got to Slovakia and Hungary, telling the world of the atrocities in the Auschwitz Protocol. Some Hungarian community leaders, however (Hungary was the only country that hadn't had its Jewish population deported yet), were busy making deals with Eichmann for safe passage away. In any case, the result was that about 1,700 Hungarian Jewish leaders, with their families and friends, ended up in Switzerland, while almost half a million unsuspecting Hungarian Jews ended up dead in Auschwitz. Vrba's report first alerted the world (including the Vatican, Red Cross, and US and British authorities) to exactly what was going on, and helped prosecute some who were tried later. ...Knowing perfectly well that it was the secrecy surrounding their actions that allowed the Nazis to herd unsuspecting Jews and transport them like sheep to slaughter, Vrba and Wetzler — as soon as they got in touch with Jewish community representatives in their native Slovakia — compiled a detailed report. They wrote about Auschwitz and what awaited Hungarian Jews once they arrived: immediate death by gassing.