Cape Town - Inmates have executed their jail breaks in many ways, whether they were dangerous or just plain odd.
This escape was the latter. Twelve prisoners from the Walker County Jail in Alabama, US, used peanut butter taken from sandwiches to change the number of an inmate's cell door to a number identifying a door leading outside.
Then, an inmate asked a newly-employed guard to open his cell's door.
The prison guard - who was watching on closed-circuit camera from a control room - opened the outside door.
The prisoners then fled and used blankets to climb over the prison's razor-wire fence in less than 10 minutes.
Eleven of the group being recaptured within eight hours but 24-year-old Brady Kilpatrick, who was serving his sentence over drugs charges, remained at large.
Two of the twelve had been imprisoned on attempted murder charges.
A helicopter was being used to hunt Kilpatrick.
A $500 (about R6 600) reward was offered for information leading to an arrest.
"He thought he was opening the cell door for this man to go in his cell, but in fact he opened up the outside door," Sheriff James Underwood said.
"Escapes happen. We've got some evil people down here, and they scheme all the time to con us and our employees at the jail."