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assimpleaspossiyesterday at 4:31 PM2 repliesview on HN

One of the Peter Sellers films (Pink Panther?), he goes to prison to visit an inmate only to have the inmate take his identity, fake beard, moustache and clothes, and walks out of jail. This happens several times. In the very last scene, he's walking out of the jail, a smirk on his face, and tries to pull off his fake beard and moustache but it doesn't come off. "Good heavens! The wrong man has escaped!!"


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qingcharlesyesterday at 9:33 PM

Most county jails don't do any identity checks as they release detainees (except ask their ID number and birth date), they are usually small enough for the staff to know all the prisoners.

I remember one incident at the Cook County Jail where two prisoners "swapped identity":

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/escaped-inmate-jahquez-...

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TYPE_FASTERyesterday at 5:01 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_the_Fox

I didn't know about about this film. Thank you!

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